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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

We cannot will or not will our aesthetic vision: we can, however, will or not will to externalize it, or better, to preserve and communicate, or not, to others, the externalization produced.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce




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