Sentence examples for humane stories from inspiring English sources

For even as the fiction writer tells humane stories about behavior and motive and family relations — what one might think of as a sympathetic skill — so he or she is also a little like the proverbial choirboy at the funeral: coldly observing, carefully pillaging, rearranging, impersonating, and re-voicing the very material that constitutes "family".

For even as the fiction writer tells humane stories about behavior and motive and family relations what one might think of as a sympathetic skill so he or she is also a little like the proverbial choirboy at the funeral: coldly observing, carefully pillaging, rearranging, impersonating, and re-voicing the very material that constitutes "family".

Although it suffers from occasional bouts of heavy-handedness, it's a bracingly humane story whose narrator's wisdom and forbearance make you see the world afresh.

How to tell a more humane story than the vengeful ideologies on offer, how to create a milder myth, a less brutal fable, which can nevertheless inspire and animate?

"Gangsta Groove" adapts hip hop's "gangsta" trope in a humane story, compared by one writer to a blaxploitation theme.

Ira Sachs, best known for his intimate, humane New York stories, has a fascination with tales of transition, both in the city setting and in the relationships that unfold there.

That "El Perro" is so unassuming is part of what makes its humane, sympathetic story so satisfying.

The transformation of Aeneas's son, Ascanius, into an Archie Andrews-like ventriloquist doll and the use of toy guns, joke arrows and soap bubbles help to turn Marlowe's tragic and humane love story into a whimsical romp.

"His spare, often bleak, yet heartbreakingly humane novels and stories balance extraordinary empathy with Graham Greene's essential sliver of ice at the heart.

Satoshi Kon, a Japanese filmmaker and comic-book artist whose dazzling visual compositions and humane, emotionally resonant stories won him a devoted following in animation circles and beyond, died in Tokyo on Tuesday.

A humane and poignant story that calibrates with startling vulnerability and delicate understatement the isolation, frustrations and loneliness of lives unlived in a quiet corner of rural America," said the jury.