Sentence examples for distinct humanity from inspiring English sources

That a story told by a five-year-old manages to captivate and to surprise — to thrill, in fact, with its peculiar and distinct humanity — is a fine and major achievement.

And Pepys no doubt asked himself: if the essence of a sovereign could be rendered so exquisitely in oil paint (as, for example, by the Pieter Nason portrait of 1664), then why not other essences, more modest of course, yet manifesting nonetheless a noble singularity, a proud and distinct humanity?

I'm walking the full plan of it with museum President, Elsie McCabe Thompson, and the structure gives off a distinct humanity.

The great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens milked his age to show the clash of two distinct types of humanity.

EARLIER this year, Bob Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, grandly declared that "2009 saw the end of what was known as the third world"—that is, the end of a distinct, separate section of humanity that is poor, aid-dependent and does not matter very much.

Michael Root (2000, 632) notes that a person ascribed as black in the United States would likely not be considered black in Brazil, since each country has very different social institutions regarding the division of humanity into distinct races.

In Monarchia [1309 13] (1995, 13), a full political treatise affirming universal monarchy, Dante draws on Aristotle to argue that human unity stems from a shared end, purpose or function, to develop and realize fully and constantly humanity's distinct intellectual potential.

As spiritual beings, we must see our humanity as distinct from the animal kingdom, but we also dare not dismiss that humans are a part of the animal continuum and we too must respect the animal world of which we are a significant, but still only one, part.

Judges and lawyers at modern-day international tribunals have argued extensively about when and to what extent crimes against humanity gained recognition distinct from war crimes.

But in doing so, he discovers simultaneously his own capacity for murder; distinct from them, he shares their humanity and, in potential at least, their sin.

The drop in age (and humanity) was accompanied by a distinct drop in quality.