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

Fine or deep qualities may, however, be expressed; for dignity, poise, intelligence, sorrow, and active joy make themselves manifest in the total habitus of the body no less than in the face.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.