externalization

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

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

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

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.

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