How To Use reify In A Sentence
- Contemporary charges of Loco Foco "agrarianism" attempted to reify this bond by publicly associating the LFP with Working Man Thomas Skidmore's destabilizing vision of a world without inheritance where the state, rather than the father, measured out family property. 23 Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
- In thus reifying as law what had been done in practice, the Court gave legal sanction to further transgressions against the remaining Native American communities.
- Normally due to our delusions, we reify things.
- For instance, one can avoid the generic ‘he’ in one's writing but nevertheless, using other words, reify the social categories female and male and the current relationship between them as natural and essential.
- Proper gender and class hierarchies are, however, only temporarily suspended in the play's world and restored in the genre's conventionally happy endings that reify English culture as patriarchal and imperial.
- It is easy to reify the categories—German and Jew, Hutu and Tutsi, Turk and Armenian, Catholic Irish and Protestant Irish—but difficult to flesh them out. Bloodlust
- Photography by reifying memories invests them with the concreteness they do not necessarily need.
- Books reify the converse trend - from private to public goods.
- In the course of amending the production liability laws, the legislature should reify the system of compensation for mental damages and formulate the criterion of the compensation for mental damages.
- Once we have made up categories or concepts, however, it is easy to reify them - that is, it is easy to treat them as real and universal and to forget that we made them up.
