Sentence examples for mere humanity from inspiring English sources

Thus, imperfect humans always remain (albeit tenuously) in the initial state of (mere) humanity (DJN II.2.9 10), even when the other two natural states have been partially sublated by culture and politics; for they are always subject to, and somehow responsible for, the norms deriving from divine imposition or, alternatively, required by and for human beings as such.

Mere humanity was the theme of her songs: children, ageing, fleabites, secret kissing, the sting of love without money.

George Mallory, like Robert Falcon Scott, has departed the ranks of mere humanity and entered British consciousness as a Galahad of the snows, a titan who showed what a chap can do if he's made of the right stuff.

There was no time for pondering or balancing nicely the question: I might die in the attempt; but besides the burning jealousy and despair of my own heart, honour, mere humanity, demanded that I should fall rather than not destroy the machinations of the fiend.

It seems to me that the queen's aesthetic sense is as much, and as crucial, a part of history as the salt tax and so are the hyperrefined gratifications of absolute power and their intoxicating contrast with the rulers' mere humanity.

Yet she is also drawn into mere humanity and into a claustrophobic marriage to The Lawyer, one of the versions of The Dreamer and, thereby, of Strindberg.

If the greatness of humanity is not mere human self-aggrandisement, then such greatness may consist at its core in a moral capacity to look beyond the interests of oneself and one's close associates, and to show a willingness to care for and share with those who are less able to fend for themselves.

The movie chronicles a nitpicky legal dispute among very young men in which everyone comes out billionaires or — oh, the humanity — mere multimillionaires.

For too long, Pollan argues, flowers and food plants have been depicted as passive participants in the grand parade of coevolution -- mere ornaments on humanity's ever-gaudier floats.

Human interaction can sometimes and to some extent eliminate the natural state in this sense – a process facilitated by their prior, and concurrent, emergence from the mere state of humanity.

That's.000076percentt surviving from the original population, a mere whisper of humanity.