humanness
Example Sentences
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Human-created cultural products like film and writing will be positioned as most valuable, and priced accordingly as luxury goods and artworks, while elevated synthetic content will be “humanwashed” to create a veneer of faux humanness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
“Talk out loud, identify yourself, and allow those predators to kind of absorb the whole scene and all the humanness and help them realize this is not one of my usual prey items,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2024
But the soul of the film, the reason why we see ourselves in its greatness, its stillness, its humanness, lies in the chemistry and connection between the two leads Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan.
From Salon • Oct. 4, 2023
The interaction reinspired hope in our shared humanness and inherent desire and ability to help each other.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 2023
Iofur Raknison was even taller and bulkier than Iorek, and his face was much more mobile and expressive, with a kind of humanness in it which she had never seen in Iorek’s.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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