Sentence examples for human documents from inspiring English sources

Important both as history and as human documents were the cartas ("letters") written by Jesuits in India, China, and Japan.

But the literary talk is constantly being interrupted by the smaller things of life and these wonderfully human documents are an appealing mix of the bookish and the everyday.

Finkel describes the clay tablet as "one of the most important human documents ever discovered", and his conclusions will send ripples into the world of creationism and among ark hunters, where many believe in the literal truth of the Bible account, and innumerable expeditions have been mounted to try to find the remains of the ark.

Hibbs said of Speech and Worship "To me they are great human documents in the form of paint and canvas.

Post editor Ben Hibbs said of Speech and Worship, "To me they are great human documents in the form of paint and canvas.

"Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" is a human document as well as a rigorous accounting.

It is a vital human document, but a less vital literary one.

It won best human document at Cannes and the president's gold and silver medals in India.

Because it breaks the fictional notion that it's a candid moment; it's a human document; it's "real".

(Thomas Mann acclaimed the book as "a human document of high order, written by a witness of our fantastic epoch whose gaze remained both clear and steady").

Philip Larkin's Letters to Monica, edited by Anthony Thwaite (Faber), make a remarkable human document that is, by turns, bad-tempered, self-lacerating, tender, sad and irresistibly funny.