humanistic
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Partisanship was in many ways alien to Cowley’s probing and genially learned critical temperament, which Mr. Howard describes as “Emersonian, humanistic, exploratory.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
He delights that it’s become “sort of a buzzword” and celebrates its power to motivate humanistic concern, but warns that our brains can be “a petty organ,” reserving the greatest sympathy for those most similar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
Celebrities are offered an opportunity to promote their upcoming projects in a sensationalistic yet humanistic and, oftentimes, meme-worthy manner.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025
"I knew that it was a life-changing role for me, as an actor and just from a humanistic standpoint," he told Time.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
In 1630 Thomas Hobbes, who had received a conventional humanistic and scholastic education at Oxford, came across a copy of Euclid’s Elements ‘in a gentleman’s library’ in Geneva.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
