Sentence examples for a human document from inspiring English sources

"Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" is a human document as well as a rigorous accounting.

Because it breaks the fictional notion that it's a candid moment; it's a human document; it's "real".

(Thomas Mann acclaimed the book as "a human document of high order, written by a witness of our fantastic epoch whose gaze remained both clear and steady").

He was also much bolder than other philosophers in stating what many of them surely believed, that the Bible was a human document that contained no privileged information about historical events or the nature of divinity.

It is unique: a mundane and gloomily worthy Victorian novel called A Human Document, recreated, reinvented and retold, page by page, into the adventures of a man named Toge.

In a roundup of Holocaust literature in Commentary in 1964, the critic A. Alvarez said "Night" was "beyond criticism" as a "human document," but called it "a failure as a work of art".

There is something numinous about any human document that survives a sufficient length of time.

"Paying for It," which includes an introduction from another randy cartoonist, R. Crumb, is a thrumming human document, hardly a dissertation.

It is a vital human document, but a less vital literary one.

But what makes MacLean's history of Berlin stand out is that this is an intensely human document, a rich tapestry spanning five centuries and woven together through intimate portraits of 21 of its former inhabitants which collectively reveal the narrative of the city.

It is possible to take Ms. Stern very seriously indeed, though, and to consider "Denial" a profound human document without considering it a profound literary one.