Sentence examples for dehumanizing effect from inspiring English sources
The dehumanizing effect of their actions was at once chilling and comical.
Language and Silence (1967) is a collection of essays that examines the dehumanizing effect that World War II and the Holocaust had on literature.
Coupland explains that it was McLuhan's ability to anticipate the homogenizing and dehumanizing effect of mass media when the phenomenon was in its infancy that made him remarkable.
Both have a dehumanizing effect, but just as Mr. Poe injects pockets of hopeful longing into passages of insistent hubbub, Ms. Johnson finds ways to emphasize the lovely fragility of the individual.
The focus of the fair is balance -- between growing populations and limited resources, between technology's possibilities and its dehumanizing effect, between dying skills and new demands -- and the responses often ingenious.
The bureaucratic ethic has permeated the whole of Japanese society and certainly contributed to the success of modern Japan; at the same time, it has fashioned a life of mechanical existence with dehumanizing effect.
Eric Coble's "Natural Selection," a comedy set in an apocalyptic near future, considers the dehumanizing effects of globalization, mechanization and other headline-making contemporary ills.
But in showing how those who fall into the underworld withdraw from the embrace of friends and family, he finds a potent image to illustrate the dehumanizing effects of drugs.
His first novel, Player Piano (1952), elaborates on those themes, visualizing a completely mechanized and automated society whose dehumanizing effects are unsuccessfully resisted by the scientists and workers in a New York factory town.
So, by proposing that Darwin's hatred of slavery, as well as all its dehumanizing effects, drove him to find a theory that could explain how humans evolved, appears initially to be too sweeping a hypothesis.
Poverty is a dehumanizing force.
