Sentence examples for humanist legacy from inspiring English sources
Others returned as faculty members—notably Price and Applewhite quite conscious of continuing in the Blackburn humanist legacy, to encourage and nurture new generations of writers, editors, teachers.
Continuing his humanist legacy, they batted the austerity pitch voting in favor of a system-wide strike involving all 11 campuses of the UPR starting on April 6th and not ending until they are sure that not a penny gets taken away from the university's budget.
Ethnographic vignettes combine with historical evidence to demonstrate ways Soka Gakkai's twin Buddhist and modern humanist legacies inform the organization's mimesis of the modern Japan in which the group took shape.
In a sense, Robinson is a kind of contemporary George Eliot: socially engaged, preoccupied with the environment and the moral progress of man (especially as catalyzed through art) and preoccupied with the legacy of John Calvin (a misunderstood humanist, by Robinson's lights).
Instead, King's legacy is that of a "profound humanist".
The establishment in 1530 of the Collège de France institutionalized humanist studies, in opposition to the University, where the legacy of medieval Scholasticism, satirized in François Rabelais's bawdy prose works, Gargantua and Pantagruel, still dominated.
A subheading on Oct. 2 with a review about "The Swerve," Stephen Greenblatt's account of the legacy of the Roman poet Lucretius, referred incorrectly to the Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini, who was instrumental in preserving Lucretius' writings.
The text, first published in 98 C.E., has a long legacy: Rediscovered in the 15th century, it was read widely by German humanists in the 16th.
Her legacy will stand the test of time because it is that of a devoted Christian and remarkable humanist who served the needy to the best of her ability and with the best of intentions.
Horticulturalist, humanist.
