How To Use Reify In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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Normally due to our delusions, we reify things.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Photography by reifying memories invests them with the concreteness they do not necessarily need.
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Books reify the converse trend - from private to public goods.
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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.
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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.
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And for a very good reason: the genre is crapulous, status-quo-reifying, herd-placating "family fare.
Why Juno Is Loathsome
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IV. words in which the e and i are pronounced separately (inter alia): a. When an i follows a prefix ending in e, such as re - or pre - (reify, preinform).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3
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The extent of this schizophrenia should not be overdrawn, but the potential existed for conflicting positions to reify.
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A law student might even claim that it does more than reify our sins, but that it alsodispenses justice, if it were not for the fact that not only the greedy now suffer.
2009 March : Law is Cool
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Viewed in light of class inequality as a structuration process, modularity has both a utopian and a reifying aspect.
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Instead, he claims that "it is an error to reify God into an independent being" (TI 38), that "To regard God as some kind of describable or knowable object over against us would be at once a degradation of God and a serious category error" (TI 244), and that
Warranted Christian Belief
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No, Obama has thrown down the gauntlet, and is trying to reify the sloganeering of the 1960s.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s next for the Obama Administration?
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The usual inclination, however, is to reify, sometimes magnify, differences, especially when we consider culture and violence.
Bloodlust
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I implemented my lazymap library in terms reify where gen-class was required before.
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Others, myself included, have discussed celebrity as a kind of art, providing narratives that reify themes and ideas in the culture much the way myths do.
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Eighteenth-century lawmakers, however, had different aims; they wanted to reify hierarchies of race, class, and status.
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True to the “middle way” of Buddhism, Kûkai treads a path that avoids reifying substantialism on the one hand as well as utter nihilism on the other hand.
Laughter
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The post-Cartesian theoretical move in this regard is to avoid mentalist discourses that reify or disembody such shared resources and thereby bifurcate the dynamically embodied person.
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It seems to me we are in danger of reifying as "masculine" the very qualities that mose of us also deem patriarchal.
All The Oligarch Alumni News That Fits, We Print
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I think we’re underrepresented in cisgender queer theory, cisgender “third gender” anthropology, and armchair feminism, that those fields reify this gender-non-conforming/third-gender/gender-non-binary/whatever deal, and that subversivist communities look down on transsexual women (and sometimes men).
Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
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Further, Eddie's pursuit and ultimate success in obtaining and reifying an American Dream not corrupted by materialism offers the impression that it was somewhat easy to obtain.
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Our fourth and final point is that it is not clear why market participants should suddenly forget the arbitrary way the conventional judgment is formed once it has been established (and reify the price it supports).
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I'll discuss our tendency to reify categories after we create them and our tendency to exaggerate the differences between the categories that we create.
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Factor analysis is harmless as data reduction, but it is tempting to "reify" the factors, to suppose that they are the hidden causes behind the observations.
American Scientist Online
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I have been witness to efforts by some in the Middle East to twist and distort comments made by American policymakers, Israeli leaders, and others in order to reify their fantastic but unreal constructs explaining some international event or accident or decision.
Steve Clemons: Conspiracism American Style: The Daniel Levy Debate
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In the end, accountability groups provide for many of the men a sense of equality with their fellows even as they serve to reify particular types of social hierarchies.
