Sentence examples for a scrap of human from inspiring English sources

And strictly speaking, it isn't personal compatibility that is at issue here, but whether the modest desire of the applicants to retain a scrap of human dignity can be successfully married to the lunatic demands of their prospective employers.

And suddenly, you were reminded of the way forensic teams painstakingly comb the rubble of bombsites for any scrap of human remains, in recognition of the powerful human need for something to bury.

Each of the millions of Iraqis who were forced to flee their homes and their country by the war don't even get a full word; there's just a letter, or a scrap of punctuation, for a human being whose life has been utterly destroyed.

Any scrap of human endeavor that had any joy in the making seems so meaningful.

The vast majority of the remains had also been cracked so that the cavemen could get to the marrow inside, while scratches and bite marks suggested they used tools and their teeth to get to every scrap of human tissue.

His faith shines through every note of his music - in his wonder at every tiny yet monumental scrap of human endeavour, and in his ultimate (if at times shaky) acceptance of a celestial Big Plan that will rid us of what he has described as 'all the nonsense of suffering' - but it's as far removed from 'Christian rock', with all the deadly dull connotations of that phrase, as it's possible to be.

That strikes me as a true special effect: not a contrivance that shows itself off but a scrap of magic that gestures in sympathy toward the human.

There's not a scrap of evidence here that these were made by modern humans, nor that they came from Africa".

One day, Mrs. J digs up a carrot in the shape of a human hand: "It was plump, like a baby's hand, and perfectly formed...The greens looked like a scrap of lace decorating the wrist".

Not a scrap of it.

A mere $17m bought him a scrap of immortality.