Sentence examples for historical conscience from inspiring English sources

—Still he sent this? —For historical conscience he did.

His rigorous artlessness, along with a keen historical conscience, permits broad latitude of subject matter within a straitening aesthetic.

Its moral seriousness and historical conscience make it much harder to encounter than "Django Unchained," which looks, by comparison, like a terrible comic book.

To her knowledge only the third novel ever to tackle the genocide of "Year Zero", it carried a heavy burden of historical conscience, posing a question that has become central to her literary project: "If a person erases him or herself in order to survive, how can they find that self again?

Han Kang's Human Acts about a blot on the historical conscience of Korea surely belongs alongside Madeleine Thien's chronicle of 20th century Chinese history, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, though one was written in English and the other in Korean.

Perhaps the pope's act might have even inspired other institutions to re-examine their own historical consciences rather than congratulate themselves on their own essential correctness.

This cénacle included two painters who later became central to the Ballets Russes: Léon Bakst, the set designer who in large measure defined the company's prewar look; and Alexandre Benois, another of the troupe's early designers and its art-historical conscience.

From the 1940s on, black artists in America came to represent a formidable historical memory and conscience for contemporary audiences both in terms of the perfection of their respective crafts, and in representing the legacy of slaves.

In its traditional roles as historical chronicle and community conscience, West African music doesn't favor introspection.

Last week the Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession and Friends of the Secession filed statements saying that after studying the historical record and their consciences they had concluded that the "claimants are in the wrong," adding that restitution would "trivial real injustice and debase any other genuine claims".

Nor have they ignored the various hard cases of collective responsibility that have racked the consciences of historical actors since WWII.