On the erudite side, Said's claim that the Orientalists "essentialized" the Orient is itself exposed as an argument dependent on an "essentialized" portrayal of the West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writings from the Middle East Forum and Middle East Quarterly.] Reference

"Weaver" had become an essentialized category, with all of its own necessary associations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India] Reference

I think a major problem had been the politicization of essentialized identities in Taiwan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reasonable Review of Cape No. 7 from Chinese State Media] Reference

This post made me think about how rural communities are essentialized, or maybe even romanticized.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Case of Fire, Good Luck to You » Sociological Images] Reference

And I certainly agree that Art, as essentialized hedonistic wild thing, doesn't care one way or the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cultural Appropriation] Reference

Memory stores these dismembered essentialized images and is able to remember them at will, that is, with an act of will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind] Reference

Aboriginals are an essentialized construction that ignores that a large percentage majority? of Taiwanese have aboriginal blood in their veins.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Chinese?] Reference

At minimum, this idealized heterosexuality is not, as heterosexuality is often construed and represented, a relationship of essentialized difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

Both went through a period in which Hegel was the most significant philosophical figure for them, and both democratized and de-essentialized Hegelian ideas about the self and community.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Herbert Mead] Reference

I am not implying here that all women in Magude share an essentialized, biology-bound view of the past or that masculine and feminine memories exist in absolute isolation from one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

They would remain unexamined and essentialized, and I would be avoiding the crucial question of why the government thought it necessary to change meanings, to create versions, to produce language, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976] Reference

But another less examined consequence of this type of morphing is that images like these can also unintentionally work as a strategy to produce an essentialized vision of President Obama as untouchable.    From Wordnik.com.  [UNTOUCHABLE: OBAMA AS THE NEW LINCOLN » Sociological Images] Reference

As Herrick concludes his second chapter, he returns once again to a facile contrast between the Judeo-Christian tradition as though this were something monolithic and easily essentialized and the new myths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

It is more constructive, I think, while recognizing the persistent fallacy of an atomized human "individual," self-constructed, essentialized, pre-social, that we allow for the possibility of positive social change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

The token female often ends up sexually objectified and stereotyped; the MacGuffined person often ends up being essentialized as the representation of virtue and treated as an archetype for The Reluctant Hero; and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Objectification in fantasy «] Reference

By episodes three and four, Hellsing had set up an essentialized pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.] Reference

Mark, the difficulty at this moment I believe was essentialized right here where you write in.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

Scarcely ever has the binary form, the combat between two contradictory themes, been more essentialized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference

Not surprisingly, Thomas puts forward an essentialized view: Men are logical, women emotional and spiritually attuned.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

His personal quality, spread more thinly in his songs and tone-poems, is essentialized and developed in these other works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference

A final great aspect of this book is that it offers a concise, essentialized history of what made these individuals great.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rule of Reason] Reference

We are moving beyond an understanding of religious traditions of having essentialized purity so each one has a discreet definition.    From Wordnik.com.  [uuworld.org: latest stories] Reference

The idea of race in Star Trek is completely essentialized so that what race you are born determines your personality characteristics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

I essentialized this best in a joke I made to my mother: "Well, a claim check is a lot easier to transport than a bunch of furniture.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gus Van Horn] Reference

Now, since there are no moving parts in the essentialized description, can we or can we not take the liberty to describe it as a static situation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [iMechanica - Comments] Reference

There are some good points in your analysis but I mostly disagree with your reasoning and your poor essentialized and unfortunatelly highly inacurate data.    From Wordnik.com.  [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference

What we have instead is a series of crude, essentialized caricatures of the Islamic world presented in such a way as to make that world vulnerable to military aggression.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopPolitics.com] Reference

Pros: It's a great reading experience-it launches straight into the timeline and uses massive, readable-from-two-feet away fonts on top of a an essentialized user interface that's single-hand-friendly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmodo] Reference

And yet the result of both these artists 'endeavours -- one all for colour and the other all for form -- is by the synthesis of genius a Venice more Venetian than herself: Venice essentialized and spiritualized.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wanderer in Venice] Reference