Sentence examples for rules of human discourse from inspiring English sources

So far, only in a court of law ― under threat of prosecution for perjury ― has Trump ever played by the higher rules of human discourse and told the truth, however reluctantly.

The anthropologist Clifford Geertz wrote that "the aim of anthropology is the enlargement of the universe of human discourse".

Commentators have spoken of "the relationship of music to the human senses and intellect," thus affirming a world of human discourse as the necessary setting for the art.

For her part, Ms. Waldman finds that being bipolar does make it harder for her to gauge "the acceptable boundaries of human discourse".

The Pirahã consider all forms of human discourse other than their own to be laughably inferior, and they are unique among Amazonian peoples in remaining monolingual.

Darwin's notion of natural selection also has been extended to areas of human discourse outside the scientific setting, particularly in the fields of sociopolitical theory and economics.

The logician must above all be a skilled interpreter of human discourse.

Hence, there is always a possible plurality and even a conflict of interpretations that must be negotiated in making sense of human discourse and action.

While his words are those of ordinary human discourse, they give expression to the samadhi he attained.

And these rules strike something fundamental about human discourse, morality and decency.

The finest poem she set there, a multipage elaboration of an Amazonian folk tale, "The Riverman," has the Yeatsian radiance of a land beyond human discourse.