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

Instead, “Companion” is content with being 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

The film is described as having had a profound effect on the representation of black people’s experiences of marginalisation and objectification.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2024

“We also prohibit content promoting exploitation, nonconsent, objectification, sexualization or harm to minors, and obscene behaviors,” X said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

Dante's objectification of morality, his art of giving visible forms and local habitations to ideal virtues and vices, was for him a thoroughly serious and philosophical exercise.

From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by Santayana, George