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externalization

[ik-stur-nl-uh-zey-shuhn] / ɪkˌstɜr nl əˈzeɪ ʃən /


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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 Mar. 20, 2025

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 May 2, 2024

“It’s the first externalization of Aisha’s interior conflict,” said the movie’s writer and director, Nikyatu Jusu, in this video.

From New York Times Jan. 12, 2023

In screenwriting, though, externalization is everything, and her characteristic restraint was her signal contribution to the other great triangle of her life: Jhabvala, Merchant, Ivory.

From The New Yorker Dec. 31, 2018

"If art be understood as the externalization of art, then utility and morality have a perfect right to deal with it; that is to say, the right one possesses to deal with one's own household."

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell




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