humanism
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"Many people don't agree with deporting teenagers. This humanism that has made Sweden famous and is its core value," she explained.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
“It’s like this that humanism itself gets swallowed up by nihilism,” he adds, concretizing that image in his movie with many scenes of environmental degradation realized as crawling blobs of death.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
At its best, “The Innocents of Florence” is an example of a complicated humanism: An empathetic study of the perpetual interplay between good intentions, human frailties and imperfect outcomes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
“To divorce sexuality from humanism and personality is a mistake,” the late therapist Joy Browne, who then hosted a San Francisco radio show, told Newsweek in 1982.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2024
This new, irrepressible sound was the still, small voice of secular humanism.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing humanism
Some Political and Philosophical -isms
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The Renaissance and Early Modern European History - Introductory
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The Enlightenment
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