Sentence examples for save humanist from inspiring English sources
King Francis I and his sister Margaret of Angoulême not infrequently intervened to save humanist reformers from the menaces of the obscurantists, and Margaret's daughter, Jeanne d'Albret, the queen of Navarre, a feudatory of France, provided an asylum for the persecuted in her domain, though she did not herself espouse the Huguenot cause until 1560.
Among 20th-century composers (for none of whom, save Stravinsky and Messaien, he had a good word to say) he occupied a place apart: preferably not a clinical, "humanist" concert hall, but a cathedral, or, even better, a curved and cruciform Greek chapel dark but for candlelight.His musical ambition was to find "the Voice": both his own musical voice, and the sound of God.
It sounded so promising – the setup from a humanist writer professing his boredom with the stagnancy of debate, a panel of distinguished thinkers charged with leading the way forward, and a full house of engaged attendees, palpably waiting for the emergence of a new agenda that could save us from more rounds of knockabout "is-there-or-isn't there" pantomime.
► In this week's Science Careers-produced Working Life column, physicist and humanist Lui Lam of San Jose State University in California says that, as a young Chinese scientist in the United States during China's Cultural Revolution, "I wasn't interested in solving small problems; I wanted to save the world, to return to China and join the revolution".
Against Malaria Foundation had proponents for it most clearly matching the humanist values of saving lives, as it saves a life for $3K.
In the end, "Saved!" is an exercise in liberal humanist piety, a peace offering in the culture wars that is sadly unable to realize its good intentions, or to make you laugh (Scott).
Horticulturalist, humanist.
Eileen Regan, a Humanist celebrant, officiated.
