(a.) Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion.
(a.) Pertaining to polite kiterature.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
(2) My idea in Orientalism was to use humanistic critique to open up the fields of struggle, to introduce a longer sequence of thought and analysis to replace the short bursts of polemical, thought-stopping fury that so imprison us.
(3) We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.
(4) Jaspers thus shows how, within the mind of every medical person, the researcher contests with the physician and the technician with the humanist.
(5) Richy Thompson, director of public affairs and policy at the British Humanist Association, welcomed the study, but said covert online access to abortion pills wasn’t enough.
(6) The authors believe that organizations have a responsibility to introduce, diffuse, and manage computer technology in such a way that it is congruent with the principles of sound, supportive, and humanistic management.
(7) In Omaha, Nebraska, several atheist and humanist groups planned to visit the local Islamic Center on Saturday to express their support .
(8) This anarchic spirit was often misunderstood by readers, many of whom mistook her Catholic chic, her militantly anti-humanist fictional aesthetic and her formal elegance for the rightwing misanthropy of an Evelyn Waugh.
(9) After the war, Auerbach notes mournfully, the standardisation of ideas, and greater and greater specialisation of knowledge gradually narrowed the opportunities for the kind of investigative and everlastingly inquiring kind of philological work that he had represented; and, alas, it's an even more depressing fact that since Auerbach's death in 1957 both the idea and practice of humanistic research have shrunk in scope as well as in centrality.
(10) Consequently, they must, on one hand, orient themselves in accordance with the above-mentioned demands, and collaborate with the scientists of the humanistic disciplines, on the other.
(11) She should record, analyse and share her experiences with others, thus helping to develop more humanistic and scientific modes of care.
(12) Patient-satisfaction surveys have been used frequently to assess the humanistic behaviors and skills of internal medicine housestaff.
(13) In an extensive survey of postgraduate physicians in two teaching hospitals (N = 141) for their humanistic attitudes, values and behavior, all ratings of physicians' humanistic performance, including physicians' own scores on self-report measures, supervising faculty, nurses and patient ratings, were modestly but significantly correlated with each other.
(14) Humanistic caring included creating-the-new, showing-the-way, working-with-others, and taking-care-of-the-environment.
(15) He also stresses the need for new types of research such as quality assurance, medical audit and humanistic studies (qualitative research, descriptive ethical studies and philosophical enquiries).
(16) Reevaluation of spiritual distress and spirituality must come in the form of holistic and humanistic approaches in nursing education and research, integration of the spiritual dimension within nursing curricula, and recognition of multidisciplinary, global perspectives of the spiritual phenomenon.
(17) It appears that the use of one rating group is not sufficient to achieve an accurate assessment of residents' humanistic skills.
(18) The British Humanist Association (BHA), which made the original complaint to the OSA, said the school did not remove the "service" provision from its online admissions guide after the OSA ruling but added a note saying parents should assume it would not be in place for 2014 admissions.
(19) I only realised the depth and value of the idea via Hannah Arendt, and her theory that all humanist politics starts on the assumption of the infinite preciousness of every human life.
(20) These stereotypes can also lead to gross errors in clinical management of the sexual concerns of elderly patients and to treatment of the elderly with less than humanistic concerns for their sexual needs.
Theistic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Theistical
Example Sentences:
(1) Link to video He shrugged off suggestions his religious views could one day become very relevant to public policy if he became, say, science minister, saying: “No, look, look … I’m interested in the people of Canning, I haven’t done science since year 12 at high school and I’m not interested in talking about curriculum or anything else, I’m interested in talking about Canning and public policy solutions for them.” When pressed again, he said: “I believe there was a God, I believe he was the first mover,” adding that there was “plenty of disagreement within Christianity itself about the specifics of creation, of theistic evolution”, before directing journalists to look up John Dickson, the founding director of the Centre for Public Christianity if they wanted a theological debate.