Sentence examples for archetypal human from inspiring English sources

And these are the sort of stories that really infiltrate – about families, and archetypal human tendencies and raw, dark emotions.

The many-facetted lyrics written by the poet-saints were in the spoken dialects of Middle Kannada, yet they drew on archetypal human images as well as ancient pan-Indian symbology for their intense and searing expressions of bhakti.

History, which may be defined as an account that purports to be true of events and ways of thinking and feeling in some part of the human past, stems from this archetypal human narrative activity.

For Verdi, the libretto, however contrived, was a streamlined vehicle rich with situations that he could seize on to depict with his uncanny psychological insight into characters in the throes of archetypal human conflicts.

This archetypal human story is brought to life in How We Are by means of an almost kleptomaniac approach to cultural references: we hear from Don Draper as well as Du Maurier, Daniel Dennett, Slavoj Žižek, Sigmund Freud, Terry Pratchett and the Buddha, George Eliot, Aristotle, President Josiah Bartlet, and participants in the 2006 season of Big Brother.

We both devoured books in the genre growing up and we both reserved a special place in our hearts for Tolkien, seeing as how fantasy, or as Tolkien puts it "fairy stories," could be a device for exploring big archetypal human themes with a strong moral compass.

For example, falling in love is archetypal for human beings.

Comparisons of the LmARG structure with that of the archetypal arginase, human arginase I, reveal that all residues important for substrate binding and catalysis are strictly conserved.

What is the archetypal man, anyhow?

The 64 hexagrams of the I-Ching claim to represent nothing less than the archetypal situations of human life itself.

Whereas similar images of men in the desert have for centuries been visually archetypal of the human contemplation of the sublime or the spiritual, the lone figure of a woman on the prairie in American culture was made equivalent with the woman's "perennial plight" of "waiting for her man".