Sentence examples for half human being from inspiring English sources

This way of hearing comedians is at once totally dislocating (when was this recorded?) and more intimate than seeing him live; instead of the comedian's act, you get the comic as extension of the act, the comic forever in the process of writing the act — the more anthropological half comedian, half human being.

The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world.

"We are darkening the world of a million and a half human beings and destroying it," columnist Yossi Sarid wrote in Ha'aretz.

Lord knows, I wouldn't be a writer now, or even half a human being, if I hadn't had unlimited access as a teenager to the only public library in Nairobi, Kenya.

Music critic Robert Christgau remarked that, because many of Manhattan's white youths were wealthy and somewhat artsy, only ill-behaved young people from the outer boroughs could "capture the oppressive excitement Manhattan holds for a half-formed human being".

Among the revelations: The mosquito is the most dangerous animal on the planet, having killed half the human beings who ever died — some 45 billion people.

In a world in which, on the Oxfam calculation, 62 people own as much as the poorer half of human beings, privilege gets entrenched in all sorts of ways.

"I needed a break," he said, "I was like half of a human being in some ways".

They are half-right: human beings have been facing big problems for a very long time.

Homeland Security brought all their dogs – these huge, beautiful creatures, half the size of a human being, and they're constantly moving.

He has to spend about half the time keeping the human being in line, and, at that, he doesn't do a very good job".