Example Sentences

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There are moments of tender resplendence that are as piercing as the cruelty — compassion that counterbalances the inhumanities Elwood faces.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2024

Fragmented senses of continuity and context have been powerful conditions to allow the multiple, ongoing crises and inhumanities we witness and experience every day.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2023

In one clip, Keith LaMar speaks about feeling victorious simply for having maintained his “sweetness” — a personal quality that’s obvious in his voice — despite the inhumanities of living in solitary confinement for decades.

From New York Times • May 19, 2022

He has a similar social consciousness, amounting to aching rage at man's inhumanities, and a similar range of techniques, from abstraction to hammer-blunt realism.

From Time Magazine Archive

But let the stars appear, and they Shed inhumanities away; And from the changeling fashion see, Through comic and through sweet degree, In nature's toilet unsurpassed, Forth leaps the laughing girl at last.

From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis