Sentence examples for reify from inspiring English sources

He's also right that Mr Sullivan sometimes has a pigeonholing streak in his writing, a tendency to reify fluid and cross-cutting groups into concrete singular actors, and then cast them in dramatic roles.

Edison hoped to reify this concept by employing a stylus-tipped carbon transmitter to make impressions on a strip of paraffined paper.

The philosophy of modern medicine has been diverted from attention to the sick and has begun to reify the sickness.

Rogue, despite its fantastical premise, seemed to reify them.

Aren't you helping to reify a myth that will convince liberals to go along with a war against Iran as you rightly point out with regard to Iraq eight years ago?

Hillary seemed convinced that she would overcome this financial hurdle — "I believe mental poverty is a self-inflicted condition," she said, as if to reify the expedition into existence.

Monarchy, therefore, rests on the cultural identity and symbolism of the society it represents, and in so doing it reifies that identity within the society while also projecting it to outsiders.

Finally, systems theorists unrealistically reified the systems of the countries they studied, portraying them as durable and stable because they were supposed to correct and reform themselves.

The social statuses of the guests were recognized and reified through the potlatch, for gifts were distributed in rank order and the more splendid gifts were given to the guests of highest status.

"I think, if the national census uses these kinds of categories, it reifies, gives them a concrete reality in the eyes of society which divides people".

Emotional nuances are reified into audible objects: "Merry sunshine, Amelia!" Mrs. West's voice flew toward her husband's half-sister like a volley of silver arrows, intending to undo with their brightness the work of years of indigestion.