objectification
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"I was 17. I was in a moment of discovery. As women, it's such unfair objectification."
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026
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
Grammatically speaking, I’ve contemplated the power of the closeup, both an objectification and a privilege.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024
The schoolmen understand, in fact, by forma substantialis that which I call the grade of the objectification of will in a thing.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
In this contemplation the mind is filled with pure intellectual forms, the ``Platonic Ideas'' as he calls them, which are objectifications of the will at a certain grade of completeness of representation.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg