strangify

Example Sentences

• "In 1970, Nabokov specifically took issue with an attempt critically to explicate his work within this Russian formalist matrix, arguing: "What doesn't make strange, estrange, strangify in a book , if the author is a genuine artist? No, leave those terms alone. Avoid textbook truth""
• "How can a translator adopt a single style for such diverse material? One thing I have definitely avoided in my translation is the attempt to “strangify” the English, to forgo the straightforward in favor of something—anything—that sounds unusual."
• "Moreover, the very process through which this symbolic pushing of the Migrant toward the margin takes place through policy can be further specified as a matter of ongoing rhetorical acts that 'strangify' the skills, dispositions, preferences, lifestyles and citizen enactments that are actualised by concrete others that are encompassed by the figure of the Migrant."
• "And, with history itself now re-defined as an 'artwork', its potential in a similar direction —its potential, that is, for deliberate disruption of conventional ways of thinking, or to 'strangify', as theorist Sande Cohen urges – becomes clear."
• "Stories strangify experiences and estrange the world so we can rise above it like smoke, if even for a moment, to catch a glimpse not only of what is happening — but what it all might mean."
• "To strangify is to engage in a non reduction of meaning that terrorizes all forms of equational logic, positive and negative."