objectification

Example Sentences

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This adoration necessitated objectification, and from the 1970s onward, Updike’s fiction came in for a good deal of feminist scorn.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

“Companion” is a rough draft of a movie about objectification, a lazy first pass that hopes its audience will mistake the insinuation of progressivism for the actual philosophy.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2025

Emma Beddington wrote that there is "plenty to horrify" in the series, including the physical toll on the team members' bodies, the "abysmal pay" and "the objectification".

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024

Before Hoàng’s appearance at Elliott Bay Book Company, we spoke to the University of Washington graduate about the power of friendship, objectification of women, toxic masculinity and seeing the beauty of where you live.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2023

Meanwhile we can recognise this strife, this subjugation, just as well in the lower grades of the objectification of will.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur