externalization

Example Sentences

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Despite its contradictory history as a symbol of democracy built by enslaved people, it is a blameless externalization of America.

From Salon

Interludes in which the accusing faces of prisoners silently fill the frame act as a sort of externalization of his survivor’s guilt.

From Los Angeles Times

“A key feature we see common among mass killers is this externalization of blame,” Fridel said.

From Los Angeles Times

There’s a hunger for entertainment that favors unflinching articulation and externalization over implication and internalization — to have our greatest fears verbalized without restraint, even heavy-handedly, along with a good deal of style and wit.

From New York Times

This externalization of evil, however, is not limited to the Christian right.

From Salon