It is "now high time," Goethe wrote in the early 19th century, "to envisage a humane global philosophy with no regard for nationality and creed". Ardor outlines, in its own quirky way, that long-overdue and genuine intellectual cosmopolitanism.
Instead, the aim should be humane, pluralist, global advance.
Boyle's global perspective was intellectually humane, compassionate, tolerant of difference and hilariously self-aware (not forgetting the anarchy within the rock'n'roll soundtrack).
Denis Villeneuve's film has broken through the genre bias because of its humane and global-political reverberations, with an assist from Amy Adams's Oscar-snubbed performance.
Before 1980, the United States had frequently been a haven for people fleeing communist regimes; its refugee policy served Cold War foreign-policy aims, signaling to a global audience that it was more humane than repressive regimes.
This included "to think globally again, to lift our eyes to the horizon, to bring our unique British voice and values — powerful, humane, aggressive — to the great global forums without being elbowed aside by a supranational body".
The move appeared to be part of a global trend to make the death penalty more humane.
This World Humanitarian Day we call for a mass global display of public support for a more humane world and for humanitarian action.
Remarkably, on their very first try, Harry Truman's liberal anti-Communists developed a global leadership strategy that was strong, sophisticated, optimistic and humane.
