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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
thematize .
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Examples
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Wordsworth, "The Power of Sound," which thematizes this very question of sound and sense.
Article Abstracts 2008
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Where Moore rather cerebrally thematizes certain aspects of superheroes--their politics, their sexuality, the group-dynamics of a team, etc.
Archive 2009-06-07 2009
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I'm going to hope that some clever writers in Hollywood read this and get the idea of writing a modern comedy that thematizes the changes taking place in our ideas about adultery.
Giles Slade: Adultery as an American Subject: Our Cheatin' Hearts 2009
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I'm going to hope that some clever writers in Hollywood read this and get the idea of writing a modern comedy that thematizes the changes taking place in our ideas about adultery.
Giles Slade: Adultery as an American Subject: Our Cheatin' Hearts 2009
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I guess it's "militant" because the piece thematizes that meaning, thus making fun of WoW players.
Onion satire 2008
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Man with characteristic flair, "is a praxis that thematizes its own thesis about the impossibility of thematization ..."
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No longer a techne rhetorike, this new, late-twentieth-century art of rhetoric thematizes its technicity as "rigor".
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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Plato thematizes the difficulties and discusses them at length in several dialogues.
Intentionality in Ancient Philosophy Caston, Victor 2007
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The transfer of inspiration from the Bard to Milton thematizes the dissemination of a kind of transformative aesthetic experience as the means by which the ideological nature of time and space are exposed in a kind of sublime mental experience of poetry.
'If the acts have been perform'd let the Bard himself witness': William Blake's Milton and MOO space 2005
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If allegory thematizes the unreadability of texts, it can do so only because, in an epistemological paradox, it becomes the praxis of reading, of an other reading, of allegorical reading.
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