| An element of chance comes into His choice of qualities: God realizes, or reifies, attractive qualities, but He could have been drawn by other Firsts, or been drawn to them in some other order. |
| In requiring girls and women to adopt service roles from a young age, polygyny as practised in this context reifies women's central role as one of servitude. |
| On one level these people are free from the religious dogma that reifies the sanctity of life. |
| At the same time his rendering of people and events reflects and reifies Establishment values and ideals. |
| It reifies a pre-existing worldview that women are less than human. |
| Saleem goes on to indicate that categorial identity reifies us, reduces our ongoing, multiple, unfixable selfhood to mere objects. |
