Sentence examples for Modicum of humanity from inspiring English sources

And the Vicomte de Valmont, while philandering with a vengeance (or without, no matter to him), maintains a modicum of humanity, which makes his ultimate breakdown not only believable but, on some minimal level, touching.

All the people I talked to seem to understand Sanders' socialism as a way to reintroduce a simple modicum of humanity into an economic system that has no real cushion those who suffer ill health or simple bad luck.

The movie's tone replicates its substance: the impersonally crafted, emptily realized, expensively produced movie gets its modicum of humanity from Dakota Johnson, who has the gift of simply seeming alive and present when she's on camera.

Wouldn't there be some, among the crowds that always throng the square, just a few with still a modicum of humanity who, for a trifling sum, will take pride and joy in setting little birds free.

Most people with a modicum of humanity will want to repay your favor in some way.

I'm just asking for a modicum of human decency.

It is as unflinching as all Gates's other writing, but for once he hints at a modicum of redemption for humanity in all our messy awfulness.

Just a heads up in the syllabus, presumably – as my colleague Lindy West put it – to treat students, especially those from marginalized communities, with a modicum of "respect and humanity".

A modicum of humility would not come amiss.

"He was full of humanity.

But also all of humanity.