Sentence examples for human forbearance from inspiring English sources

In its portrait of human forbearance Child resembles The Salt of the Earth, a must-see doc, currently in theaters, about the great humanist photographer Sebastaio Salgado.

The campaigns to rescue alpha predators -- campaigns with such high requirements for forbearance among human bystanders too poor or too culturally entranced to move out of range of these experiments -- stand out oddly against the species extinctions accompanying the continuing human drive fruitfully to occupy the earth.

The emphasis on Lincoln's goodness, his forbearance, his attributes both human and semi-divine, his "purified" character, which combined elements of the Old and New Testaments — well, how can you portray such a being as a political actor, a President, without falling into dreadful piety and sentiment, or sheer boringness?

Patience relates the biblical story of Jonah as a human comedy of petulance and irascibility set off against God's benign forbearance.

But one can also imagine that he might enjoy a respite from such rectitude — that he might sometimes tire of being the one perennially at fault, beset with human flaws, who must exist in proximity to such exemplariness and forbearance.

One way to accomplish that human change is to lay down guidelines explaining to I.N.S. agents that they have discretion to use what Henry Hyde called "forbearance," and then to train them in its use.

Take regulatory forbearance.

But Holbrooke counselled forbearance.

5. Practice forbearance.

Some forbearance is called for.

They require forbearance and blind faith.