Example sentences for: humanistic

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

  • The motive was similar to the impulse of the German drafters seeking to ground their postwar constitution in the humanistic values of human dignity.

  • It is true that the humanistic Jewish view holds that the substance of one's life is created by good deeds, but a ledger toting up flowers and cards does not figure in.

  • Good reviews, for the most part, for the autobiography of one of hip-hop's most successful artists: "An amusing, contemplative memoir" that paints "a surprisingly humanistic portrait" of the crack dealer turned platinum-selling musician ( Kirkus Reviews ). The tales of his misspent youth and rise to fame are "eloquently told" (Michael Harris, the Los Angeles Times ). One reviewer splits from the pack and delivers a withering pan: "[T]he ability to sell a lot of records has almost nothing to do with insight or maturity.

  • I am writing to compliment James Surowiecki on his simultaneously rigorous and humanistic analysis of the General Motors strike ("Moneybox," June 10).

  • His humanistic intuitions about the difficulties and possibilities inherent in therapists' struggles with their patients, parents' struggles with their children, a mass society's struggle with its citizens, and the self's struggle with itself were perhaps not profoundly original.


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