humanness
Example Sentences
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“I’m interested in touch, activity, humanness — the character of being alive and human — and connection,” said Haendel, who grew up on the East Coast and completed a master’s of fine art at UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
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
To surrender such decisions to some putatively wiser entity is, in some essential sense, to surrender our humanness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
"He has a deep love for people. He listens. He looks people in the eye. Sandy's humanness is my dad's humanness. I feel immensely lucky to be his son," he says.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2024
We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
