| The proletariat is now an important trope of modernity worthy of the writerly gaze. |
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| Humor raises no such difficulty, for it is a purely formal device, more akin to the metric pattern of verse than to that of a trope. |
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| Therefore, a trope cannot be compresent with itself unless it is compresent with other tropes. |
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| Even if skin color were taken as a signifier for race, a metonym for some racial homunculus, all it would prove is a trope, not an index. |
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| Meiosis, often achieved through a trope of one word, may range from bitter scorn to light derision. |
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| Those are very difficult paths to walk, to be up front about taking that stuff seriously, and not just using it as a trope or a conceit. |
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| The depiction of her as temptress echoes the clerical trope of woman as Eve, the seducer of men. |
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| Metonymy is the trope of contiguity, part-part relationships, where a single event may provide a causal link in a chain of events. |
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| Crusading newspaperman versus reactionary publisher was a stock trope of the first half of the twentieth century. |
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| I'm glad to see that, in this article at least, that trope has been toned down to ask what role those elements might play in these crimes. |
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| Pieces like this may have been composed as a sort of trope on that versicle to be sung in the Divine Office. |
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| The re-emergence of the avant-garde, modernism's trope par excellence, marks the return of the repressed in contemporary art. |
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| The human subject become rigid, is a familiar trope for the ridiculous: we ridicule the biological creature that has become mechanistic. |
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| John seems to have become Maya to stop up a hole in the heroic American trope. |
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| In the 1990s it was a common trope to complain about welfare recipients who had cable television. |
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| Visitors had to wend and weave their way around corners and curves to reach the various spaces, which once again invoked the trope of the medieval city. |
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| The corollary to this — reason two and a half — is the current of self-flattery that runs through the Jew-as-anxiety-hero trope. |
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| And we loved how you morphed a common identity trope into a revengeful power trip. |
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| Like vintage suitcases and handmade bunting, bicycles have become a hipster wedding trope. |
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| This is the trope that has J. Jonah Jameson blaming Spiderman for the crimes in New York, since Spiderman is always at the scene of the crime. |
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| Through the trope of the cursed videotape, the narratives map logophilia and logophobia onto divisions between local and global, domestic and exotic. |
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| For Wollstonecraft, an inveterate mythoclast all her life, this was a throw-away trope, a spontaneous, one-time self-portrait drawn for rhetorical effect. |
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| Lerman further noted that this cinematic trope is not limited to the depiction of inner cities or black people. |
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| This suggests that the sexual aspect of the narratives was largely a trope for the strong desires that were central to both malefic witchcraft and the Evil Eye. |
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| The future Empress first gains access to the Blazing World by way of the romance trope of abduction, which, in this case, is a fortunate mischance. |
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| It is not a prop, or a trope, or a tool to be used either on the world stage or in spittle-flecked op-eds. |
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| Jill Bergman illuminates the trope of motherlessness in African-American literature using Pauline Hopkins's novels as an exemplary case. |
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| Turns out, the trope of the brawny grandma was no false advertising. |
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| But the trope of the romantic public domain goes even further. |
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| This social unease is just a trope of the rightwing press. |
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| The America's Cup illustrates how effectively Hawke seized on that trope. |
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| But he probably saw it at the movies: Cash fluttering down like confetti has been a favorite film trope from It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World to Bull Durham. |
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| It was a trope a year ago from the right when the court upheld the constitutionality of Obamacare on grounds some thought were judicially invented. |
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| It is also interesting because, more arcanely, it succeeds in relating an anti-apartheid trope to post-apartheid conditions. |
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| And the mirrors' evocation of narcissism lasts only so long as a trope of clever reflexiveness. |
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| Mirka's invocation of a trope reveals the influence of Hatten, the most favorably-received topic theorist in the volume. |
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| The bond between etyme and sememe is pushed to the power of a trope in its own right. |
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| This trope of hagiography was offered for a sign that the new shrine should be built here. |
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| And no wonder: the tone of the show plays to the trope that all comedians are in actuality broken people who are willing to expose their brokenness for our light amusement. |
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| Yet in Northanger Abbey she alludes to the trope, with the heroine, Catherine, anticipating a move to a remote locale. |
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| The story shows the trope eroticize, rape, blame the victim, perish. |
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| A classic trope of science fiction films is mass hysteria about some kind of contamination, whether it be a medical pandemic, a zombie infestation, or an alien invasion. |
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| In the redemptionist trope of Zimbabwean historiography, Nehanda and Chaminuka have become the prototypical inspirational sources of the nationalist struggle. |
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| The modern trope of the Big Bad Wolf is a development of this. |
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| As with metalepsis, the valedictory is a trope against time. |
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| The resulting physicalization of metaphysics tends in sum to trope the universe as a feeling, and a feeling less emotional or moral than sensual and ontological. |
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| Bonfim, an iconic location of Afro-Catholic practice, is syncretized with the supreme Candomble deity, Oxala, a trope for the Judeo-Christian God. |
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| One common trope about genocide is that they are the result of ancient tribal and ethnic hatreds boiling over and erupting into exterminatory violence. |
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