frail humanity

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Starnone has earned a reader’s trust with another agile analysis of frail humanity.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2021

Somehow, I grasped that, if it weren’t for a fear of the unknown, there was an inherent goodness and frail humanity lurking in many of the kids who bullied and harassed me.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2016

I was afraid of breaching this security fence; afraid my questions would pierce their emotional armour to reveal their frail humanity; afraid they would cry.

From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2015

A frail humanity survives the unspeakable in this novel of the Burma-­Thailand Railway of World War II.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2014

Could Zeno himself have asked more from frail humanity?

From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Kingsley, Charles