humanness

Example Sentences

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If athletes insist on toiling in their humanness, they can take their emotions and hurt and need for relief somewhere else.

From Washington Post

Which is what we’re in the process of understanding: the humanness of these athletes.

From Washington Post

I think it's probably rooted in menstruation, but it's this idea that women just need to be contained, that women's basic humanness always needs to be parceled away, hidden.

From Salon

I've started to think of the human hand as as integral to humanness as the brain.

From Salon

This statement had the peculiar effect, on me anyway, not of persuading me of her humanness but of causing me to consider whether humans acquire nameable feelings all that differently from her description.

From New York Times