Sentence examples for character of man from inspiring English sources
Pavel Petrovich, a main character of 'Man in the Landscape', discusses the artist's attempt not just to reflect the world, but to understand.
He is, of course, Don Quixote, Cervantes's loopily courageous knight errant and the title character of "Man of La Mancha".
"In his journal, he kept this quote: 'You can tell the character of man by what he does for the man who can offer him nothing.' That's how he lived".
If he became an architect's assistant, Gandy replied, "I should conceive myself a slave and debased below the character of man... a non-entity". What becomes evident, however, is that Gandy - in true Romantic fashion - saw his failure as the fault of society.
Even more serious are the obstacles to success inherent in the demands which execution of the project would make upon human intelligence and upon the character of men.
In one, she said she would do all she could "to protect my grandchildren from being exposed to a lifestyle contrary to the biblical character of men".
It seems so fundamentally contrary to the character of the man we thought we knew, a man in whom so many people believed.
