Sentence examples for a human act from inspiring English sources
A human act of creation enables man to arrive at truth by penetrating the confusion of the surrounding environment.
Two objectivists may disagree about whether a work of art or a human act is good or not, but both believe there are agreed-upon standards by which the work or act is to be judged.
In a wonderful speech in the second act, Bohr speaks of how 20th-century physics restored man to the center of the universe, of how Albert Einstein demonstrated that "measurement is not an impersonal event that occurs with universal impartiality" but "a human act, carried out from a specific point of view in time and space".
Its power comes not only from the arresting beauty of the song itself but also from its broken-down form -- the dissonance drawn from a circle of black speakers, standing sentinel-like, each of them containing the remnants of a human act long past.
Among the speakers was the Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt, who offered a defense of the turn he took toward biographical criticism in his 2004 book "Will in the World": "It expressed an intuitive understanding that literature was not a self-enclosed system of signs but rather that it was a way of being in the world, a form of agency, a human act".
Some explain that one can return to this world in animal form if a human acted like an animal in his or her life (Sefer Chassidim, section 169).
Dancing is both/and: both a metric, spatial pattern and a profoundly human act at the same time.
Instead, Reuters photographer Jonathan Bachman was able to preserve a simple human act of quiet bravery and give it an almost religious power.
An act of man describes something that "happens" in the subject whereas a properly human act ascribes free and responsible authorship of the act to the subject.
It is a rare human act that is utterly reprehensible.
