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

“Rosetta,” which former Times critic Kenneth Turan dubbed “a triumph of humanistic cinema,” premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Fesitval and won the coveted Palme d’Or, and Dequenne won the actress award.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2025

Lastly, the passing of former President Jimmy Carter is a reminder of the value of compassionate, empathic, humanistic, and service-minded leaders who provide a model for the public.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2025

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