| It was, and is, inherently wasteful, despite the proclaimed limitation of the appropriative right to an amount of water which can be beneficially used. |
| Generally, western-dominated research has been seen as appropriative and inconsistent with Maori world views and understandings. |
| Ergo, the terrestrial or the Life of Nature ever the shadow and opposite of the Divine is appropriative, absorbing appetence. |
| All was inspired not by Santa Cruz, but by Kate and Laura's childhood memories, or confabulations, thereof — a meaningful step away from the culture's appropriative mood. |
| Entertaining and allusive, Lang's appropriative style works in both directions. |
| It is the appropriative words, thine and mine, which make this history different from any other history. |
