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Example sentences for: demonize

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The tried and true method for ginning up excitement about a foreign entanglement is to demonize, to focus on a single foreign scoundrel.
Government should discourage images of sex and violence in the media by holding congressional hearings that demonize Hollywood.
West has really grappled with the great plays and found in the lack of a central consciousness (the protagonists are not mouthpieces for the playwright) and refusal to demonize even the most destructive-seeming characters a hallmark of Christian forgiveness.
I do believe that the administration has used the National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3) for purely political purposes--to demonize welfare reform and draw attention away from the fact that it (the administration) has no plan to rectify the crisis that afflicts the child-welfare system.
Both Lewis and Males go overboard, he by playing loose with statistics that demonize parents, she by romanticizing teen-agers.