Use humanity in a sentence
Sentences starting with humanity
- Humanity has been put in the witness-box of the world; let humanity give evidence. [11]
- Humanity is as much lacking as decency. [4]
- Humanity called him, for one thing, to drive often with humanely disposed young ladies round the beautiful shore curve to visit the schools for various colors at Hampton. [4]
- Humanity has always been cheap, but we're spending it rather lavishly just now. [9]
- Humanity is shocked and repelled by it. [6]
Sentences ending with humanity
- Mingled with these were occasional remarks of skeptics shaken, in human fashion, by the suggestion of the inevitable end that never fails to sober and terrify humanity. [9]
- Unlike as he was to his brother, there was still in their eyes the same friendliness and humanity. [11]
- That she certainly was not; for the immortals are free from the faults and weaknesses of humanity. [10]
- Yet it had, too, a knowledge and an understanding which gave it humanity. [11]
- Have I not told you that the gods of the heathen are unreal beings which the vain imaginings of fools have endowed with all the weaknesses and crimes of humanity? [10]
- It is impossible to conceive of any holiday that could take its place, nor indeed would it seem that human wit could invent another so adapted to humanity. [4]
- Such masses, such throngs, such multitudes of hurrying, bustling, struggling humanity! [5]
- Every now and then some of its members seem to lose common sense and common humanity. [6]
- Their breeding brings them to the average level, carries them more nearly to the heart, makes them a simpler expression of our common humanity. [6]
- It has melted the world's conscience in its crucible, and cast it in a new mould, with features less like those of Moloch and more like those of humanity. [6]
Short sentences using humanity
- He's working for humanity. [11]
- Religion of humanity! [4]
Sentences containing humanity two or more times
- The very spirit of statesmanship is imagination, vision; and the same quality which enables an author to realise humanity for a book is necessary for him to realise humanity in the crowded chamber of a Parliament. [11]
More example sentences with the word humanity in them
- Of course, if you heard it, you know my belief is that the total climatic influences here are getting up a number of new patterns of humanity, some of which are not an improvement on the old model. [6]
- Of course it would not do to copy a model, raw, like' that, but he fell to studying his traits, trying to see the common humanity exhibited in him. [4]
- Before all the world, with a smile of conventional welcome on her lips, with the same hand-clasp that any friend and lover of humanity would give him? [11]
- Man in connection with the general life of humanity appears subject to laws which determine that life. [2]
- They will rejoice with me in the new evidences which your proceedings furnish that the magnanimity they are exhibiting is justly estimated by the true friends of freedom and humanity in foreign countries. [7]
- How much more wholesome a picture of humanity than such stuff as the author of the "Night Thoughts" has left us: "Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart. [6]
- Here are no white men visible, yet swarms of humanity are all about us. [5]
- The invocation with which the letter ended was, as Kingsley Bey afterwards put it, "a pitch of poetry and humanity never reached except by a Wagner opera. [11]
- To his inquiry, whether she could not rejoice in the coming of the glorious time in store for redeemed humanity, she answered, tremulously: "All you hope for is glorious, no doubt, but what shall lead to it must be a terror to all. [10]
- From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation. [6]
- A contrast they were, these buckskin-clad pioneers, to the ill-assorted humanity they watched, absorbed in struggles for the very lands they had won. [9]
- And when they were through they said that portrait, fine as it is, that work, beautiful as it is, that piece of humanity on that canvas, gracious and fine as it is, does not rise to those perfections that exist in the man himself. [5]
- Still, if it was pale, it had a glow which it did not possess before, and even a stronger humanity than of old. [11]
- To me he was just a brick-red morsel of humanity, all folds and wrinkles, and not at all remarkable in any way. [9]
- And oh, I want so much to believe unreservedly what you expressed so finely, that religion is democracy, or the motive power behind democracy--the service of humanity by the reborn. [9]
- It was cutting very close to the bone to carve such a shred of humanity from the body politic to make a soldier of. [6]
- What is the value of this vast accumulation of higher learning, what is its point of contact with the mass of humanity, that toils and eats and sleeps and reproduces itself and dies, generation after generation, in an unvarying round, on an unvarying level? [4]
- Not even the Undertaker's Apprentice could have been less sensitive to the struggles of humanity under the heel of fate and death. [11]
- Mr. Edison should turn his attention from physics to humanity electrically considered in its social condition. [4]
- It was in touch with the universal movement of humanity and of human thought and speculation. [4]
- There was a touch of the grotesque in the Gallic robe with a red hood in which this ominous-looking contemner of humanity was wrapped. [10]
- The next letter to Twichell takes up politics and humanity in general, in a manner complimentary to neither. [5]
- For a reply to these questions the common sense of mankind turns to the science of history, whose aim is to enable nations and humanity to know themselves. [2]
- He was devoted to the people as she was, he understood them; and for the moment their passion of humanity assumed the same aspect, though she knew that what he saw, or thought he saw, lay beyond her agnostic vision. [4]
- It opens doors to so much of humanity and life. [11]
- It all came to him again in this room, so austere in its appointments, yet so gracious, so full of the spirit of humanity without a note of ennui, or the rust of careless deeds. [11]
- I should expect to find faith in humanity greater and not less than it is now, and I should not expect to find that Mr. Froude's mournful expectation had been realized, and that the belief in a life beyond the grave had been withdrawn. [4]
- For the last three days Paulette Dubois had turned a sorrowful face upon them, and with one hand upraised had spoken the prayer, the prophecy, the thanksgiving, the appeal of humanity and the ages. [11]
- At first nobody thought they would live a day, such little absurd attempts at humanity did they seem. [6]
- How promising was this young tree of humanity that his rough fist had broken off! [10]
- I have said this without claiming any special growth in humanity for myself, though I do hope I grow tenderer in my feelings as I grow older. [6]
- There is in this some thing so repugnant to humanity, so uncharitable, so cold-blooded and feelingless, that it, never did nor ever can enlist the enthusiasm of a popular cause. [7]
- Where now was this pin-point of humanity, in the midst of an appalling spectacle of a grinding, remorseless nature? [9]
- For more than thirty years this great discovery, which was to banish at least half the evils which afflict humanity, has been sleeping undisturbed in the grave of oblivion. [6]
- But this time they should see--the hypocrites, who pretended to so much humanity, and then set ferocious dogs on peaceful folk!--they should learn that they could not fall on a Macedonian citizen without paying for it. [10]
- Such benefactions as these compensate the temporary harm which Bonaparte and the Revolution did, and leave the world in debt to them for these great and permanent services to liberty, humanity, and progress. [5]
- You don't suppose there was a special act of creation for the express purpose of bestowing that little wretch on humanity, do you? [6]
- It was not, then, the love of beauty, not even the love of humanity, and very far from being the service of his Master, that he was discussing, but only his desire for one person. [4]
- The majority of them insist that humanity is not to be trusted. [9]
- Victoria had drawn the whalebone whip from its socket, and was urging on the horse as fast as humanity would permit; and the while she was aware that Hilary's look was fixed upon her--in fact, never left her. [9]
- He had crossed the threshold of the paraschites most reluctantly, and the thought that he, of all men, had been selected to censure a deed of the noblest humanity, and to bring her who had done it to judgment, weighed upon him as a calamity. [10]
- It is because the strength has been given me to oppose you in the name of humanity, and this in spite of the fact that her love for you to-day is greater than it has ever been before. [9]
- Those happening in the State of Mississippi and at St. Louis are perhaps the most dangerous in example and revolting to humanity. [7]
- I had not the remotest desire to play upon any one's confidence with a practical joke, for he is a pitiful creature indeed who will degrade the dignity of his humanity to the contriving of the witless inventions that go by that name. [5]
- They talk about the religion of humanity. [4]
- They are not the only characteristics; in a reasonably optimistic view, the age is distinguished for unexampled achievements, and for opportunities for the well-being of humanity never before in all history attainable. [4]
- The beach which the ocean of knowledge--you may call it science if you like--is flowing over, is theological humanity. [6]
- When Burns, in the midst of the sulphurous orthodoxy of Scotland, dared to say, "The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order," he was only appealing to the common sense and common humanity of his fellow-countrymen. [6]
- Brengyn turned to the men behind him, the dark, determined toilers who sustained the immortal spirit of courage and humanity on thirty shillings a week and nine hours' work a day. [11]
- This has been the longing of humanity. [4]
- You are not the less welcome, friend, for her sake, or for this old man's; nor the worse teacher for having learnt humanity. [12]
- Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her property, she inevitably takes the next step to her share in power. [6]
- And now, in the great centres, where is accumulated most of that we value as the product of man's best efforts, is there strength enough to elevate the degraded humanity that attends our highest cultivation? [4]
- The Professor and the Friend of Humanity were about starting on a journey, across country southward, through regions about which the people of Abingdon could give little useful information. [4]
- In spite of the contradictions of science, it explains as nothing else can the mystery of the divinity as well as the humanity of the Saviour. [9]
- The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. [7]
- He measured up the Abbe in his mind, analysed him, found the vulnerable spot in his nature, the avenue to the one place lighted by a lamp of humanity. [11]
- You are surprised that I should be interested in humanity. [9]
- What is he that he should absorb the sweets of the universe, that he should hold all the claims of humanity second to the perfecting of himself? [4]
- They met; they talked of nothing but their work; they tried to forget themselves in their devotion to humanity. [4]
- I could not take my eyes away from these worn and wasted wrecks of humanity. [5]
- His deep and sweet humanity won him love and reverence everywhere among those whose natures were capable of responding to the highest manifestations of character. [6]
- There is no sufficient flavor of humanity in the soil out of which we grow. [6]
- I had already suffered many deaths, I said, and I would go to the final one looking like a man, and not like an outcast of humanity. [11]
- The shore, solid, substantial, a great deal more than eighteen hundred years old, is natural humanity. [6]
- Clement loved to study its grand lines, which had so much strength and fine humanity blended in them. [6]
- This course was strictly followed by bench after bench as Driscoll traveled in his tumultuous and airy flight toward the door; so he left behind him an ever-lengthening wake of raging and plunging and fighting and swearing humanity. [5]
- You are unfortunately steeped in a religion which lacks the faith in humanity that should be its foundation. [9]
- This much the State for its own protection is bound to require, for suffrage is an expediency, not a right belonging to universal humanity regardless of intelligence or of character. [4]
- There are two sorts of infidelity concerning humanity, and I do not know which is the more withering in its effects. [4]
- There was a softness in the distant outline, villas peeped out here and there, carriages were passing in the road below, there was a cheerful life in the stream--there was a harmony in the aspect of nature and humanity from this height. [4]
- If I did so, it would be with the fixed purpose of giving my whole powers to the service of humanity. [6]
- To criticise a single insignificant human creature, seems to me scarcely worth while, but when we pronounce judgment on all humanity and the boundless universe, we can open our mouths-wonderfully wide! [10]
- Protestantism was a sin, but atheism was a crime against humanity. [11]
- Nothing was for show, for self-love; there was no rhetoric, no declamation, no triumphant "I told you so," but the plain statement of a clear-headed honest man, who knows that he is handling one of the gravest subjects that interest humanity. [3]
- A strange unrest seethed in this dense mass of humanity. [10]
- The simple question seemed unanswerable except on grounds of humanity. [13]
- That is to say, there is more hope for humanity in stimulating the good, than in directly suppressing the evil. [4]
- Corbett boxed 3 rounds with the middle-weight Australian champion--oh, beautiful to see!--then the show was over and we struggled out through a perfect wash of humanity. [5]
- All the region round about, and up and down the river-road, was a dense wilderness of humanity hidden under an unbroken pavement of carriage tops and umbrellas. [5]
- How could he resist the dictate of humanity which called him to make his visits more frequent, that her intervals of rest might be more numerous? [6]
- To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible. [2]
- At last he put into her mouth that which told the whole story of redemption and deliverance, so far as his heart could conceive it--the prayer for all sorts and conditions of men and the general thanksgiving of humanity. [11]
- My whole nature protests against such one-sided humanity! [6]
- The instinct for property is probably innate in humanity, and American conservatism in this regard is, according to certain modern economists, undoubtedly sound. [9]
- Never had a prisoner been more self-contained, or rejected more completely all those ministrations of humanity which relieve the horrible isolation of the condemned cell. [11]
- It is no pleasure to me to triumph over any one, but I give thanks to the Almighty for this evidence of the people's resolution to stand by free government and the rights of humanity. [7]
- In the first place the historian describes the activity of individuals who in his opinion have directed humanity (one historian considers only monarchs, generals, and ministers as being such men, while another includes also orators, learned men, reformers, philosophers, and poets). [2]
- Was it all pity and humanity? [11]
- I tell you, Philip, that humanity is pretty poor stuff to build a religion on. [4]
- How should the past life of nations and of humanity be regarded--as the result of the free, or as the result of the constrained, activity of man? [2]
- I suppose the Parson would call this the Enthusiasm of Humanity. [4]
- The sea drowns out humanity and time; it has no sympathy with either; for it belongs to eternity, and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever. [6]
- Whereas every giving or deed of real humanity done while he was living would have entered into his character, and would be of lasting service to him--that is, in any future which we can conceive. [4]
- And now occurred one of those beautiful incidents which no fiction-writer would dare to imagine, a scene of touching pathos, creditable to our fallen humanity. [5]
- It still depends on Your Majesty to preserve humanity from the calamity of another war. [2]
- He was preying on Kingsley Bey's humanity, and he hoped to make it well worth while. [11]
- It was the old Charley Steele, the Charley Steele of the court-room, who argued back humanity and the inherent rightness of things. [11]
- Without the help of tools or workmen, Emerson makes "Cheshire's haughty hill" stand before us an impersonation of kingly humanity, and talk with us as a god from Olympus might have talked. [6]
- The first effect of this was to awake and enlarge what philosophers would call her enthusiasm of humanity. [4]
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