Example sentences for: humanism

How can you use “humanism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • What is more, humanism and the Reformation set off a fight for the ownership of truth, historical and otherwise--whence derived authority when the higher Authority had been dethroned?

  • Three Kings is not the first anti-war movie in which opposing soldiers have recognized themselves in one another before pulling the trigger, but it might be the first to make the point in a way that has nothing to do with liberal humanism.

  • Another paradox, contradicting his broad humanism and also contradictory within itself, is his attitude toward Jews, a subject that Rayfield traces throughout this book.

  • "The Northern liberals have been waging a religious war against the Southern whites all this time: secular humanism is intent upon stamping out Christianity."

  • In earlier times, he would have been one of Enlightenment's missionaries; in our own, he has come to be seen more as a guardian, a defender of embattled humanism.


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