Humanizing yourself, after all, is a different thing from showing your humanity.
Yet many of São Paulo's neighbourhoods possess humanizing features and individual characteristics belying the surface appearance of a stultifying similarity.
The prime innovation of this summer's Mostly Mozart Festival has been to put in place a temporary "Mozart stage," which goes some way toward humanizing the room.
Skillfully working both forward and backward through time, and interlacing the events leading up to the child's disappearance with its aftereffects, Bock aims at humanizing those who exist at the margins.
"My theory is this: They feel that by me humanizing King and showing that he was flawed, I am pointing out all older black men's flaws.
By humanizing the priest, we re-enliven the god.
Over the course of his career, Tsai, who has said that his 2014 feature, "Stray Dogs," may be his last, has developed a subtly comprehensive view of modern life; he reveals economic inequity and rotting infrastructure behind luxurious façades, and shows physical needs and emotional desires surging through the city's order and fracturing it, illuminating it, humanizing it.
The Web has connected four hundred million Chinese to the world on a scale difficult to predict a decade ago, humanizing former enemies but also revealing their own country to them in new light.
One night, he went on the air and coyly revealed, by way of humanizing himself, that he had a terrible weakness for clarets of exceptional vintages.
But Paulus and Parks's approach ultimately has much less to do with the self-serving manipulation of a classic than it does with humanizing the depiction of race onstage.
In some ways, the album is a campaign consultant's dream: on message, catchy, humanizing.
