human interest
Example Sentences
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His investigation into cargo ship crews abandoned at sea was a finalist for the Overseas Press Club's top prize for human interest journalism, as well as a Gerald Loeb Award feature finalist.
He also has worked as a reporter for the Houston Chronicle, where he often wrote human interest stories and reported on the region's large population of immigrants, education and suburban news.
"My films are not political, they are of human interest," Sudipto Sen, director of The Kerala Story, told the BBC last year.
From BBC
Judge Quinzy had been the only one who had shown a more human interest in Penelope, and in the Incorrigibles.
From Literature
Kellyman is terrific opposite Squibb, but this unconventional friendship tale is the kind of slight human interest story that slips from your consciousness almost as soon as it has made its brief impression.
From Los Angeles Times
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