inhumanity
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"It's important to participate in these things and shine a light on injustice, shine a light on inhumanity, shine a light on suffering," DiDonato said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
As the foundation’s president, Elizabeth Alexander, puts it: “We support artists, scholars, and thinkers,” both inside and outside prison, “who are countering the inhumanity of incarceration and the broader criminal legal system.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
The heads of more than 20 aid agencies have called on world leaders to act, saying "the inhumanity of the situation in Gaza is unconscionable" and calling for "urgent intervention".
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
But it’s still a cold statement on inhumanity when Justine flees into a convenience store for safety, only for the clerk to order her back outside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025
I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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There are moments of tender resplendence that are as piercing as the cruelty — compassion that counterbalances the inhumanities Elwood faces.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024
Fragmented senses of continuity and context have been powerful conditions to allow the multiple, ongoing crises and inhumanities we witness and experience every day.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2023
In one clip, Keith LaMar speaks about feeling victorious simply for having maintained his “sweetness” — a personal quality that’s obvious in his voice — despite the inhumanities of living in solitary confinement for decades.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2022
He has a similar social consciousness, amounting to aching rage at man's inhumanities, and a similar range of techniques, from abstraction to hammer-blunt realism.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He wished, certainly, to eliminate inhumanities and baseness; but only that there might be free play for laughter, for individual happiness.
From Lysistrata by Aristophanes