How to Use humanism in a Sentence

humanism

noun
  • And that’s the basic premise of a movement known as humanism.
    — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Over the past 30 years, Darnielle has used the Mountain Goats to expound a sort of small-scale, lo-fi humanism.
    — Robert Rubsam, The New Republic, 24 Feb. 2022
  • His images of them are quick and loose, the full energy and humanism of the music seized within the frame.
    — Max Lakin, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Who benefits from the promotion of myth as the means of achieving true humanism, and at what cost to whom?
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • For Lincoln, the debates became the venue for the full expression of his humanism.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
  • This movie quietly evokes the quirky humanism of early Jonathan Demme — go see it!
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Merkel’s decision not to close Germany’s borders to a huge wave of refugees was an act of humanism.
    — Constanze Stelzenmüller, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The humanism that makes Reid such a hit on the podium works behind closed doors, too, in relating to players.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Even in the final moments of his life, Han was always going to be undone by his humanism and his heart, but Qi’ra was on the other side of the line.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Their answers contrasted in ways large and small, but each reached for some form of what used to be called Christian humanism.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
  • This is Gurnah’s approach, throughout: a humanism that does much to make up for the one odd absence in his novel.
    — Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
  • His flaw was a lack of patience with his own deeply felt humanism, self-censoring even his love of Beethoven in pursuit of the public good.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Chay Yew directs this world premiere with a warmth and generosity that matches the humanism and balance of the script.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Their humanism and activism became part of Martha’s DNA, knit through her work from the beginning, or nearly so.
    — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 12 July 2018
  • Most movies that aspire to humanism of that kind inevitably will be constrained by the need for commercial success.
    — Dan Bekerman, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The liberalism that came after humanism may be what keeps his memory alive and draws us to him.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
  • The enlightened humanism of the director of Melvin and Howard is evident in every frame.
    — Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 10 July 2018
  • His work is singular for the warmth and humanism of his approach to minimalism.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Jan. 2023
  • What was humanism but an attempt to universalize and install the preferences of the ruling class, the chief members of which were white, male, and Western?
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Her humanism is Scrapper’s best, most distinctive quality — the source of its wit.
    — Armond White, National Review, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In the unpicking of these fantasies, Hendren’s humanism shines.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2020
  • That’s why, in comparison with the sequel, the original comes off as a work of warmhearted humanism.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 May 2022
  • To him, the Enlightenment’s championing of reason, science, humanism, and moral progress is a model for our own times.
    — David Lay Williams, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Its overly poetic, quasi-humanism about the gamut of life from birth to death seems more official than universal.
    — Armond White, National Review, 16 June 2021
  • There was an opening with humanism and with these wealthy patrons, but also there was a huge sense of (them) pushing each other and competing with each other.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Nowhere is the tension between his orthodoxy and his nascent humanism more acute than in Canto XV of Inferno, when a shade with features scorched by the flames clutches at the poet’s hem.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • There’s a humanism to these shots of demolition derbies and lush Appalachian fields that feels of a piece with something like Malick's Days of Heaven, where the emphasis is always on the light, the sky, the time of day.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The strands of Ichikawa’s filmmaking linger in so many of the documentaries that follow—both his humanism and his attention to a city’s transformation.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Siew Ting describes the ideal marketing leader through the lens of Leonardo da Vinci—a harmonious blend of art, science, and humanism.
    — Aliza Knox, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • For both writers — and this is true for Renaissance humanism at large — there is no contemplative life without the active life — the two modes necessarily co-exist.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2024

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