objectification

Example Sentences

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Though their obsessions with moisturizers and eyebrow grooming seem pretty girlie to someone of my generation, looksmaxxing is rooted in objectification.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

“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

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

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

Thus also the one will outside of time finds its full objectification only in the complete union of all the steps which reveal its nature in the innumerable ascending grades of distinctness.

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