Sentence examples for of human accomplishment from inspiring English sources
Ten years ago technologically minded economists pointed to driving cars in traffic as the sort of human accomplishment that computers were highly unlikely to master.
Somehow the two sides did not seem so widely disjunct in the days of the Greeks, when philosopher-scientist-artists like Pythagoras addressed themselves happily to all areas of human accomplishment.
Charles Murray, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author, most recently, of "Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950".
Look back through history and you realize that the great eras of human accomplishment — the Roman Empire; the Renaissance; the Industrial Revolution — had one thing in common: no videos of cats playing pianos or dogs going down sliding boards.
Sporting elites offer to their spectators an impenetrable world; behind their final public display – the match, the race, the tournament – they suggest an intricate set of puzzles, of mystical feats of endurance and practice, of codes, regulations and etiquette, of innate talent, of ambition that voluntarily sets aside other forms of human accomplishment and satisfaction.
One of the great conflicts in the scope of human accomplishment is the clash between business and art.
His moral outlook is pragmatic, realistic, and relativistic; he is conscious of the imperfection and frailty of human accomplishments.
Religious belief focused largely on guardian spirits, whose aid was sought for all manner of human accomplishments.
My lack of excitement over Iran's achievement is twofold: In terms of human accomplishments, sending a monkey into space is nothing new.
But to me, it's part of American history"—not flag-waving, patriotic history, but the accumulation of tangible human accomplishment.
Let me offer two corrections of fact regarding the review of my book "Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950" (Nov. 30).
