Sentence examples for on the human scale from inspiring English sources

But charisma, with its overtones of divinity, is one thing; charm on the human scale is something else.

Everything was within walking distance, and its buildings were designed on the human scale, with nobility.

We have, he argues, no American "biographies on the human scale of English biography".

"My reaction," Ortega told me, "was to bring the eyes down, to focus on the human scale".

"We want to do something on the human scale, to keep the lodging and facilities as natural as we can," he said.

The entire movie, with its thrumming and droning and lumbering and crashing, seems especially nostalgic for imagination and morality on the human scale.

"Desert of Adam" explores the complex movements of these pilgrims through an elaborate ritual, conducted on an infrastructure defying the human scale of the pilgrimage.

Over here, the Alps take on a human scale.

"V" is on the same human scale but it is a more intimate piece that goes with the music.

But if humans no longer need to eat meat or wear skins, then what exactly are we putting on the human side of the scale to outweigh the interests of the animal?

Viewed on the human time scale, on the other hand, the Brahmaputra presents an immemorial landscape that is in peril.