Sentence examples for inhuman book from inspiring English sources

One of Barrie's biographers, Denis Mackail, calls it "that distressingly human and inhuman book," presumably because it demonstrates, even more than "Peter Pan," the weird twinning of Barrie's gifts — an almost telepathic self-spiriting into the emotions of others, and a professional shamelessness about baring them in public.

One of Barrie's biographers, Denis Mackail, calls it "that distressingly human and inhuman book," presumably because it demonstrates, even more than "Peter Pan," the weird twinning of Barrie's gifts an almost telepathic self-spiriting into the emotions of others, and a professional shamelessness about baring them in public.

The theme of the shark floats, predatory and inhuman, across the book, an icon of pure desire and pure violence.

But at the last minute more hard-line elements of Mr. Karzai's staff weighed in, and the joint statement finally issued by the Ulema Council and the palace used language like "Satanic act" and "unforgivable, wild and inhuman" about the book burnings, and "justifiable emotion" in regard to the violent reaction, which claimed the lives of at least 29 Afghans and 6 Americans.

To come across such inhuman legalese in a book about the movies is as jarring as spotting a satellite antenna sprouting from a teepee in a western.

Don't read this if you don't like sad books (ie catastrophically painful books about the inhuman suffering of slaves in the American South).

He is also an avid swimmer, a practice and sensibility that underpins his discussions of shipwreck and felt experience in Shipwreck Modernity as well as his 2012 article "After Sustainability" (pmla) and his essay "Shipwreck" in Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's collection Inhuman Nature (Washington, dc: Oliphaunt Books, 2014).

(People have used the analogy of the Mule in Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" books, a mutant whose inhuman abilities disrupted the normal development of politics in the universe).

The whole of this splendid book is about weather that is inhuman and also about language that is human, making endless attempts to understand weather.

Pinterest isn't just for elaborate napkin crafts for your book club soiree, or for bragging about inhuman feats of supernatural cupcakery; it also makes a pretty stellar travelogue.

Shchedrin knows that it is both a kind of affront to decency and to the decency of the novel itself to present a family reunion in such inhuman terms, and his narration, at points throughout the book, registers the offense.