Any loss of that great human fabric is a loss for us all.
The separation of families "is truly dangerous for the social, moral and human fabric" of Latin and Central American families, the pope told reporters aboard his plane.
He is not pro-war, exactly; rather, the Western Front has become, for him, a varied, human fabric of collisions and good and noble purposes.
To those who see religion not as truth but as part of the human fabric of history, however, such claims are hard to swallow.
On May 5th the newspaper of the Catholic bishops' conference openly criticised Mr Berlusconi, declaring that the "human fabric" of which a leader was made was "not irrelevant".
But democratic capitalism provides the best defense against the exploitation that is and always will be a thread in the human fabric.
It is specifically to a man of Solzhenitsyn's religious imagination that one looks for a subtler, far less localized sense of the potential of disinterested evil, of sacrificial, abstract malignity in the human fabric.
Whether inside the museum or outside on its gently sloped plaza, which reminded me of the outdoor seating of an ancient Greek theatre, I would feel at one with the human fabric, a fluid member of both audience and stage.
Racism is part of the human fabric and constantly needs to be addressed by Princeton and anyone else who encounters it, but Wilson should not be used as a scapegoat.
When a didactic attack on a system, as in Harriet Beecher Stowe's attack on slavery in the United States in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), seems to go beyond mere propaganda, it is because the writer makes the reader aware of wrongs and injustices that are woven into the permanent human fabric.
