What is "dehumanize"

Usage examples of "dehumanize".

I combat it as having a tendency to dehumanize the negro, to take away from him the right of ever striving to be a man.

The dehumanized servant stared for a moment out at him through the iron lattice, then activated the electric switch in the wall.

Depression hung in the gray strata of clouds, looked at you out of faces waiting in bread queues and dehumanized by the bitter cold.

They gazed across the ravine dehumanized and aloof, as if they were the last gods on earth.

I was powerfully reminded of those American motion pictures of the 1930s and 40s, set in some vast and dehumanized state or federal penitentiary, in which the prisoners banged their eating utensils against the bars at the appearance of the tyrannical warden.

Ben, everything piled on him in a rush of brutal memories: the dehumanizing training in the jungles, the mountains, the deserts, the deep timber.

The forces into which the individual is subsumed may indeed be dehumanizing and destructive, as they are in the case of Nazism, but they may be collective, progressive, and positive, as in the case of socialism.

I stepped forward, continuing the dehumanizing but sanitizing assembly line routine, with the Tombs physician waiting to ask how I felt.

These Livers were-well, Jackson hated to admit it because it echoed the worst kind of dehumanizing bigotry-the Ellie Lester kind.

Try to realize you are over-simplifying, dehumanizing, and vilifying others, possibly to rationalize your own hostility and maybe as a coverup of your own self-hatred.

I was powerfully reminded of those American motion pictures of the 1930s and 40s, set in some vast and dehumanized state or federal penitentiary, in which the prisoners banged their eating utensils against the bars at the appearance of the tyrannical warden.

Not to mention all the riptides, ambushes, Judas goats, fools and ruthless, dehumanized thugs that will sooner or later have to be dealt with by any presidential candidate who still feels strong on his feet when he comes to that magic moment for the leap from Stage Two to Stage Three.

They switched on every light and brought more of their own, and the glare further dehumanized their host.

But it was maintained that so many dehumanizing ideas were mixed up with his conceptions of man, and so many diabolizing attributes embodied in his imagination of the Deity, that his system of beliefs was tainted throughout by them, and that the fact of his being so remarkable a logician recoiled on the premises which pointed his inexorable syllogisms to such revolting conclusions.

As I see it, we have already reaped the real benefits of this spectacle -- the almost accidental castration of dehumanized power-mongers like Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Tom Charles Huston, that vicious young jackal of a lawyer from Indianapolis that Nixon put in charge of the Special Domestic Intelligence operation.