human condition
Example Sentences
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As a collection of ideas about the human condition, ripe for interpretation, it’s invigorating.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
He tells the BBC the film portrays "the human condition", with the characters living in "the apocalypse" but "still looking for something else and hoping for something else".
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Students really enjoy Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” — it’s all about the human condition and cancel culture, forbidden love and lies and deceit, with witches in the forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
“I am afraid to own a Body— / I am afraid to own a Soul— / Profound—precarious Property— / Possession, not optional—” There it is, captured in four lines by Emily Dickinson, the human condition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
It’s not necessarily the human condition, I would hope, but a remediable innumeracy which results in this unfortunate tendency.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
