Sentence examples for humane tradition from inspiring English sources

He may well be the last great photographer – at least in the classic, humane tradition, working in black and white, telling profound truths.

In the case of an Observer article, it's part of a long, noble and humane tradition of treating a complex world with compassion and self-doubt, rather than certainty and blame.

In the 50 years between the writing of Tennyson's Charge', and this heart-wrenching poem of Hardy's, the new "humane" tradition had come to challenge nine centuries of the old "heroic" one.

He would eventually argue, Underwood writes, that "he had not seen Agrarianism as a political program, but as 'a reaffirmation of the humane tradition.' " Underwood, an independent scholar, sets out to write the life of Tate as Southerner, and thus places the outer limit of his biography at 1938, after which, he says, Tate "was no longer consumed by Southern history".

I have chosen poems from both the old "heroic" and the modern "humane" traditions.

It is a portrait of the country of his childhood, the west African state of Mali, and in particular the city of Timbuktu, whose rich and humane traditions are being trampled, as Sissako sees it, by fanatical jihadis, often from outside the country.

These cuts demolished CIDA's size and profile to such a degree that they are still blamed for the decline of Canada's longstanding humane internationalist tradition.

This figure is a dreamy quietist of peaceable disposition, who savors apolitical friendship, nurses a skeptical outlook, and looks to an anti-theoretical politics of homey tradition and humane, but chastened, sentiment to guide him.

Britain was once a world leader, building on a humane, liberal and pragmatic tradition to show an alternative route to the cruel and failing War on Drugs.

The more humane interpreters of those traditions are increasingly ignored, and the ideologues take command, convinced that they are doing God's will.

"While the public debates the technicalities of how these people should be classified," he said, "we will continue to follow the traditions of humane treatment".