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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
valorize .
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Examples
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I don't like Bratz--I think they're trashy and ugly and their name valorizes, well, brattiness.
More Dubious Reporting on Kids Becca 2005
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I don't like Bratz--I think they're trashy and ugly and their name valorizes, well, brattiness.
Archive 2005-05-01 Becca 2005
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So much science fiction follows Asimov in that it valorizes the “pane of glass” no-style of writing style.
Harmony is here! « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2010
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IFOT speculates that the source of the problem is that our general culture still valorizes a Romantic model of artistic production that equates the text (or song, etc) with the author's own feelings and is very resistant to models of aesthetic signification that complicate or pluralize the possible meanings in a text.
Literary Study 2009
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If we accept that juvie inducts young people into a culture which valorizes crime, surely there are other ways they could be inducted into the same culture — and perhaps those other ways would become more prominent if juvie were not there to scoop up many obvious candidates.
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So much science fiction follows Asimov in that it valorizes the “pane of glass” no-style of writing style.
June « 2010 « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2010
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On my reading of the passage you quote, B. valorizes the "engaged reader" who, because he reads with "directed concentration," eats with relish the inner organs of a Book.
Turning Pages 2010
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Again, he valorizes the framing of teachers as serving a nationalistic project, not the interests of the people.
Rick Ayers: Education Wars -- The Next Generation Rick Ayers 2011
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Days without wind are days to kick back on the deck with a beer and a man-versus-nature adventure book that valorizes their journey into an essential quest for manhood.
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Again, he valorizes the framing of teachers as serving a nationalistic project, not the interests of the people.
Rick Ayers: Education Wars -- The Next Generation Rick Ayers 2011
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