humanism
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Along with other writers at Oxford, they formed a loose fellowship called the Inklings and began articulating a Christian humanism for a new generation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
Playwrights and directors have a duty to guide audiences through the brave new technological world that is overturning many of the bedrock assumptions of humanism since the Renaissance.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025
It’s Lynch’s humanism that started those cars down all of those dark roads, in “Twin Peaks” and in the opening credits of “Lost Highway” and “Mulholland Drive.”
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2025
In the more than four decades since Lennon’s death, Ono has continued to create works steeped in humanism and cries for peace.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2024
Only such real, meaningful actions as those which are sincerely motivated from a deep sense of humanism and moral responsibility can get at the basic causes that produce the racial explosions in America today.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.