How To Use Dehumanize In A Sentence
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Yet while pilotless drones are dehumanised and impersonalised, mobile phone ring tones and screensavers are instances of the humanity and personality of the people behind technology.
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In the face of dehumanization he remained human - and did not dehumanize his fellow humanity to try and get ahead or gain an advantage for himself.
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One of the first aims of propaganda is to dehumanize the enemy in the public mind.
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We have thus been thoroughly and systematically dehumanized.
Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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And “retard” is a pejorative term used to dehumanize the mentally retarded.
Matthew Yglesias » Does Anybody Know How to Do Development?
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In both cases the result of improvement is a dehumanized landscape and something like a moral vacuum.
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By the way, in case you never thought about it, “Reds” is an invidious term calculated to dehumanize radical activists.
Dry up the tears for that golden period in US Journalism that never was
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Dissent is dehumanized, as it is branded with this pejorative title and other insulting labels like xenophobe, nativist, peacenik or anti-American dupe.
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Torture always dehumanizes both the torturer and his victim.
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Once dehumanized, a certain Colonial attitude of infantilization is imposed upon them.
Charles Shaw: Chasing Amy: Prohibition & the Infantilization Of Addiction
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In my experience violence and intimidation are the exact tools used routinely to dehumanise and brutalise any individual unfortunate enough to be in the army.
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As was the case in World Wars I and II, we are up against sociopathic sub-humans who despise the common man, are capable of great cruelty brought on by their indifference to human misery and whose ultimate plan is to dehumanize and bestialize humanity.
[fragmented society] the fish rots at the head
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It is a battle between a spiritualised India and de-spiritualised, devitalised, dehumanised India.
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We have thus been thoroughly and systematically dehumanized.
Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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Whip It," the 1980 song that was the anthem of the band Devo's rage against a society dehumanized by industry and commercialism, is now the theme of a Procter & Gamble Co.
Boing Boing
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Also in attendance, the one and only Henry Rollins, resplendent in "Black Sabbath: Dehumanizer" t-shirt, a marvelous conversationalist since Mr. Rollins currently hosts a show at KCRW-FM, we talk DJs: Sunset Strip impresario and godhead music man Rodney Bingenheimer, as well as the multitalented Steve "Jonesy" Jones.
Gregory Weinkauf: William Shatner Salutes The Captains
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It's a totalitarian regime that reduces and dehumanizes its population.
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Immigrants have been dehumanized and the issue has been analyzed in a reactionary way.
Hector E. Sanchez: A New Approach to Immigration: It's Time to Stop Blaming Immigrants
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Fresh and fizzing with a dehumanised, holographic energy, eclectic collaborations chequer the album.
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Their stock-in-trade is to dehumanize, humiliate and relegate human beings to caricatures.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: "Shocking Secrets Revealed: Illegal Means Used to Carve Up Live Humans for Human Consumption"
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It is difficult to believe that the Taliban brand of Islam can dehumanise a person to such an extent - making him insensitive to even the sublimest of art form ….
What Will Happen to Ancient Art in the Taliban’s Swat?
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The sense that the models are crushed or dehumanized by their work and the photographer's art is the conceit of some of the best photographs.
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Significantly all of these doctors speak of the urgency for a paradigm shift in New Zealand mental health, and are part of a growing number of mental health professionals who are seeking to rehumanise what psychiatry has dehumanized through current brain disabling "treatments" of drugging and electroshock.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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In our attempts to dehumanize our enemy we end up becoming less than human ourselves.
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Harper's: Do math and science "dehumanize" students?
CJR
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For instance, for a Philosophy paper on how propaganda dehumanizes the enemy during war, I focused on the question of who the enemy actually is.
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It's the spirituality and soul of the blues filtered through barbershop harmonies, but accompanied in counterpoint by dehumanized pulses and drones.
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To deprive human beings of certain basic rights is to dehumanise them.
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(Not helped by conditioning to dehumanize the subject population by superiors.)
War Criminal or Hero? « Antiwar.com Blog
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In case you haven't noticed, our unelected leaders have dehumanized millions and millions of human beings simply because of their religion and race.
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Life in poverty has dehumanized them
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In terms of language, one of the toughest battles today is over the widespread use of the term "illegal immigrant," made popular by conservatives in an attempt to dehumanize undocumented immigrants.
Eva Paterson: Building a Real Progressive Movement for Change
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It never objectifies the subject of the violence, nor does it dehumanize the perpetrators of violence.
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But the last, justice, at least as between the Infinite and the finite, has been so utterly dehumanized, disintegrated, decomposed, and diabolized in passing through the minds of the half-civilized banditti who have peopled and unpeopled the world for some scores of generations, that it has become a mere algebraic x, and has no fixed value whatever as
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According to this reading, the film is concerned with the extent to which the way we live is governed by machines - and cinema is one of them - that dehumanise our human transactions.
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The designed product of the slave system, which Dr. Steel calls "a mild and humane system of bondage," was a dehumanized and bestialized thing, and there was no stone left unturned, no vigilance was deemed to exacting, no privations and cruelty too heartless, and no punishment too severe and diabolical to compass the end desired.
Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition De
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I refused to swear blind allegiance, would not destabilize, wouldn't bed down to order, wouldn't dehumanize the human race.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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What is so harmful about this mixture of real-life street-tragedy and low-rent entertainment is that "COPS" and its brethren reduce our resistance to the kind of dehumanized "ultra-violence" Anthony Burgess hypothesized in his then-seemingly satiric 1962 novel "A Clockwork Orange.
Dying and Living in COPS America
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In Washington, I'm not sure we have virtual reality, I think what we have up here is virtual unreality, which is a bad thing because it enables you to almost dehumanize problems and turn them into words and rhetoric and labels.
President On Economic Plan Passage Anniversary
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I could see using them if I was writing from the POV of a character who was trying to dehumanize or objectify the character they were referring to.
January 2nd, 2009
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‘Remove the human and you get dehumanized art,’ he declared in a 1994 interview, responding to a question about the viability of nonfigurative art.
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Whenever we are perpetrators or victims of oppression, we feel diminished, degraded, dehumanized.
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Corporations dehumanise the people they absorb for profits.
Drugs, Fish, & General Depression
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Rather it is the supporters of war who have to dehumanise and hate in order to justify wielding their mighty and murderous weapons of destruction.
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He applied business methods to the handling of human beings who, once they had been dehumanised, could be treated no differently from cargoes of kerosene.
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It dehumanizes us by defining us not as human beings but as somehow less than the rest of the population, not deserving of protection or equal status.
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Jerry Austin, who identified himself as a former Anaheim fire chief, said the trial "dehumanized" Johnson and "humanized" a dog.
The Seattle Times
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Similarly alcoholics'lives are narrowed and dehumanized by their dependence on alcohol.
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We have thus been thoroughly and systematically dehumanized.
Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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Until he does that, you feel that sermons in St Paul's are only going to dehumanise him more.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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They are truly spellbound into a "dehumanized" state of consciousness.
America at War: Killing Cabbies in Iraq
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Similarly alcoholics'lives are narrowed and dehumanized by their dependence on alcohol.
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Enforced shaving of a prisoner's head has long been a systematic tool to 'dehumanize' and 'depersonalize' an individual.
'Bush's Republican Administration Used Torture Routinely' - REPORT
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Tucker Carlson's efforts to dehumanize Vick and paint him as a disposable, killable individual cuts in a way that transcends the idiocy of Murdoch's 50-state southern strategy of dimples and dog whistles.
Dave Zirin: On Dimples and Dog Whistles: Why Tucker Carlson Dehumanizes Michael Vick
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I refused to swear blind allegiance, would not destabilize, wouldn't bed down to order, wouldn't dehumanize the human race.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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You kind of dehumanize the adult, bringing him down to the animal's level.
CAROLINAS' NEWS CONNECTION
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After a "ghastly, dehumanised moron" * killed off the much loved Routemaster London bus and replaced it with the more fare-dodger friendly bendy-bus, it was a relief when Boris Johnson was elected London Mayor on a platform (pun intended) of introducing a new style Routemaster.
Archive 2008-10-01
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A girlfriend of one of the men took issue with the label "migrant workers," saying it dehumanized them.
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It's a totalitarian regime that reduces and dehumanizes its population.
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This nostalgic embrace of primitiveness leads dystopians to interpret every technological advance as another step toward an ultimately dehumanized existence.
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This religiously inspired ideology is deeply anti - Semitic, dehumanizes Jews, and demands Israel's destruction.
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Having been dehumanized in turn, they will embrace inhumanity and brutality.
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Access to the cash that power brings, completely deranged and satisfying “investigations” that both dehumanize the opposition and give that warm fuzzy feeling of standing up for “principle” (no one is above the law — even, or especially those who have done nothing in its violation) and, best of all, they get to go on demolishing any hope of using government power to solve any actual problem out there.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Search and destroy
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Every technology that seems to dehumanize us is an opportunity to rehumanize ourselves.
More Than Machine
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In war movies the white masculine hero is often counterpoised against an exoticized, demonic, and dehumanized nonwhite (and often physically disabled) opponent.
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As we have become a grossly unequal country, we demonise and dehumanise the poor to salve our soiled consciences.
Johann Hari: Am I Sick To Love Horror Movies?
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I mistook the atmosphere of tension and menace to mean dehumanized relationships.
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Torture always dehumanizes both the torturer and his victim.
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9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
10 Signs You Hold a Mythic Worldview
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Should we no longer use the terms rapist, thief, murderer or molester because they might" dehumanize "the offender?
Undefined
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As one rabbi notes, once you see the sincerity and devoutness in a person, it's no longer possible to demonize and dehumanize their behaviour; you can only love and help.
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This wallows in the dirt, squalor, drunkenness and mechanical, dehumanised sexuality of those who live on the margins of society, where the artistic petty bourgeois merges with the lumpenproletariat.
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It's a kind of documentary on how, in order to wage war, man must first dehumanize his enemy - see him as a monster of sorts - and this is accomplished with propaganda.
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When all around his friends were being brutalized, dehumanized, and exterminated with ruthlessly systematic purpose, the ‘communion of subjects’ came to seem to him more rare and precious.
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Countries have always attempted to 'dehumanise' opponents see WWII cartoon depictions of 'the hun' in a war in an attempt to make brutal realities somewhat more palettable - in a front line standoff, this is fine - shoot anything that moves 'over there'.
A Big Stick and a Small Carrot
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Finally, the narrator's descriptions of her ‘eye pits, [her] full set of teeth… [and] sour breath’ not only defeminize her but also dehumanize her.
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He told the TRC's amnesty committee in Pretoria that he had often told staff who worked under him that the best way of dealing with enemy targets was to "dehumanise" them.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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But the last, justice, at least as between the Infinite and the finite, has been so utterly dehumanized, disintegrated, decomposed, and diabolized in passing through the minds of the half-civilized banditti who have peopled and unpeopled the world for some scores of generations, that it has become a mere algebraic x, and has no fixed value whatever as a human conception.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
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And I think that there are already plenty of pejoratives available to cis (non-trans) people to marginalise and dehumanise us, without handing them further ammunition.
A rose by any other name
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Attempts to analogize pregnancy so often become attempts to dehumanize pregnancy, to obscure the fact that abortion pits a woman against her own child rather than proceeding on the assumption that we can love and care for both.
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Marx has left us a vivid rhetorical picture of the proletariat as objectified labour, demeaned and dehumanized by the brutal forces of capitalism.
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The endless briefings, whether here or abroad, are mostly by military officers and intelligence analysts whose discourse tends to dehumanise the war.
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Does the writer really mean to suggest — nay, insist — that universities, regardless of their affiliation, "dehumanize" their employees by expecting a "certain" level of conduct?
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The years of civil war have dehumanized all of us.
