habitus

Example Sentences

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The Mackey family habitus is characterized by great pride in hard work, and a healthy skepticism of cushy lifestyles and anyone without calluses on their hands.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2023

For too many people who have huge libraries, the whole project is one of social signaling and bourgeois habitus.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2022

“Courage is a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts,” she writes.

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2017

Even in this brutish habitus, there is trust, loyalty, and love.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 28, 2016

Clarendon fitly paints him in the words with which Virgil describes Drances:—   "Largus opum, et lingua melior, sed frigida bello   Dextera, consiliis habitus non futilis auctor,   Seditione potens."

From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of