Sentence examples for noble humanity from inspiring English sources

It doesn't require an extensive exploration of the difference between Islamic and Christian semiotics to grasp that if many Muslims seem to take personally degrading images of the Prophet it is because he is an exemplar of noble humanity to them rather than a distant figure of stern authority – someone whose smallest act is worthy of emulation.

Its Declaration of Principles explained that market-oriented competition makes it "almost impossible for an honest man or woman to make a comfortable living, and that a co-operative system, if properly carried out, will give the best opportunity to develop all that is good and noble in humanity".

Consider some of the virtues that belong to the junzi (the noble person): ren (humanity, benevolence), xiao (filial piety), yi (righteousness), and li (acting according to ceremonial ritual or more generally propriety).

He was a friend, a champion for the Lost Boys, and an extraordinary and noble interpreter for humanity.

In large part because of the hole, and in an equal part because war had condensed my life experience so much it evolved me quickly through the baser and nobler aspects of humanity that those who do not go to war may not experience.

The subject of the film is the power of fictions, of noble lies, in nudging humanity a step closer to its best side.

In dropping the audience in the battle, literally making viewers lose perspective, the film conveys no sense of any noble cause to save humanity.

The subject of the film is the power of fictions, of noble lies, in nudging humanity a step closer to its best side — the tenuous reconciliation of enemies, in the interest of the lives of individuals; the crucial role of fictions in redeeming catastrophes.

Love in Shakespeare's plays is rarely a simple matter, but it is almost always presented as an example of humanity's noblest impulses, the best of what man can become.

Riefenstahl later revealed that Hitler had admired her "dance on the sea," but even at the time of the film's release, in 1926, it was interpreted politically, by critics on both the disapproving left ("Obtrusive propaganda for noble-blond, high-altitude humanity") and the welcoming right ("This way, German film, to the holy mountain of your rebirth and that of the German people!").

The action takes place over the course of one very long dream, as Adam, Eve and a chatty Lucifer visit the world's great civilizations at the height of their power, only to watch as humanity's noblest hopes and dreams come to naught.