Sentence examples for human glory from inspiring English sources

Human glory is a sad triumph.

But I never forget that this is about human suffering or human glory in its most concrete.

People stood before them, one by one, in all their anxious, fidgeting human glory, like supplicants waiting for absolution.

Whatever human glory (or disaster) might attend the earthly city paled in significance compared to the denouement awaiting the heavenly city.

The idea of the nude as a symbol of heightened human glory comes from ancient Greece, where it evolved in archaic times.

"Things I Didn't Know," a memoir, was published in 2006 and "Rome," his highly personal history of the city he called "an enormous concretion of human glory and human error," was published last year.

But as I tried to do something different in an alien-first-contact story, I am a little bit different, I hope, as a comic and satiric writer in this book, because, even though I point my finger at human frailties, I also point out a few human glories, achieving (I think) a very positive view of the potential and future of Homo sapiens.

When we inhabit a fictional world created with the full spectrum of human folly and glory, we engage our whole selves.

The nation has lost one of the purest witnesses ever to plumb Washington's daily grab bag of human frailties and glories.

Both as a result of Renaissance humanism, which gloried in human achievement and encouraged human autonomy, and of Reformation ideas that believers were responsible in conscience and reason for their faith, an autonomy in expressing faith developed.

The term elegy is used of Old English poems that lament the loss of worldly goods, glory, or human companionship.