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

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

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)