Sentence examples for purely a human from inspiring English sources

"I didn't put my hand there wilfully, it was purely a human reaction to protect myself.

Jimmy Breslin once said that nature's finest sight is a crowded street; my own nomination is also purely a human creation: the eastern face of Manhattan as seen from the Triborough Bridge, stretching from Harlem to the Lower East Side.

The problem with this narrative from purely a human rights perspective is Down syndrome as acceptable shows up halfway through someone else's story.

Canine brachycephaly is purely a human invention.

It was "purely just a human response," he said.

Managing to present such a theme competently, as Ms. Picoult undeniably does, almost exempts an author from being judged; anyone not moved by the piece on a purely human level seems a churl.

What, he asks, would grief be "without its tears, its sobs, its suffocation of the heart, its pang in the breast-bone?" Not an emotion, James answers, for a "purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity" (PP 1068).

Rather, it's the idea that the Games are a showcase not just for athletics but for timekeeping, that a race is no longer a purely human endeavor.

"To become a Christian in the New Testament sense is such a radical transformation that, from a purely human perspective, one would have to say that it is the greatest tragedy for a family if one of its members becomes a Christian".

It also raises the question of how well genetics learned in a microbiological context will be transferred to a purely human context.

He frames it as an ascent up to Christiandom, a movement away from animism and toward belief in a purely human soul.