Example sentences for: humanist

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

  • That Du Bois--who exists in the field of black studies these days as rather the black equivalent of Einstein (theorist), Dr. Johnson (wordsmith), Emerson (humanist), and Kant (moral philosopher), separately and together, as it were--is evoked by the editors in their introduction provides this volume with a pedigree that I suppose they thought it needed, making Gates and Appiah our intellectual knights who have given us the Holy Grail.

  • You treat The Green Mile as if it's a humanist milestone on the order of To Kill a Mockingbird . But it has been more than a third of a century since Mockingbird 's Great White Father and that shambling, saintly black martyr who pays for the sex crimes of white men--and in-between came the civil-rights movement.

  • Is he a monster or a humanist committed to eliminating the "deplawrable tawchaw" of capital punishment?

  • Apted might be too much of a humanist for a Bond picture.

  • What law or principle--secular, humanist, or religious--says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?


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