essentiality
Example Sentences
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It casts an othering gaze, one that essentializes and passes summary judgment.
From New York Times • May 13, 2022
He takes the mundane stuff of life — the need to take a leak, the joy of killing pesky flies — and essentializes them.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2021
What could compel otherwise intelligent people to perpetuate a false and harmful narrative that essentializes Sanders supporters and erases their real and diverse identities?
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2020
Madly grand and deadpan daft, the show essentializes a strange glamour that seems to have leaked from the art world into the culture at large.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
