Example Sentences

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Consequently she practices what Tillich would call "self-reduction," in which she tries to find the whole of reality by participating in society-sanctioned trivia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whatever we do, it is within the greater will towards self-reduction and a perfect society, analysis on the one hand, and mechanical construction on the other.

From Twilight in Italy by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

In this state of entire self-reduction and humiliation, your words will be clothed with power.

From Letters of Madam Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte