What's the difference between impersonal and inhuman?

Impersonal


Definition:

  • (a.) Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
  • (n.) That which wants personality; specifically (Gram.), an impersonal verb.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (2) Mimics are stars and the country’s finest impersonators have their own television shows.
  • (3) Written partnership agreements, employment contracts and related documents may seem to complicate what appears to be a straightforward arrangement, and can make a close relationship somewhat more impersonal.
  • (4) Prince himself is being royally impersonated by Fred Armisen, another regular on the late-night show.
  • (5) The Cowboys had one last chance to beat the Eagles but Kyle Orton, doing his best Tony Romo impersonation, threw an interception to end Dallas hopes.
  • (6) Post-concussion symptoms were more frequent in women, in those injured by falls, and in those who blamed their employers or large impersonal organisations for their accidents.
  • (7) As the health care system becomes more impersonal, competitive, and cost conscious, there is a potential for increased dissatisfaction with health care providers.
  • (8) Psychosomatic medicine began as a social movement within medicine, designed to counteract the mechanistic and impersonal features that had accompanied the introduction of science into medical education.
  • (9) "In my opinion, what Graber has done, to be a straight man calling himself a lesbian, is tantamount to impersonating an entire community."
  • (10) Wyndham Mead , an American who has lived in Berlin for the past three years, joined because he was looking for an alternative to "impersonal gay dating sites".
  • (11) Asked about the status of his own job, the press secretary joked “I’m right here”, telling reporters, in a belligerent line that could have been uttered by his impersonator Melissa McCarthy: “You can keep taking your selfies.” The president was busy sowing confusion by trying a new passive-aggressive tone on Twitter , musing: “While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out.
  • (12) Bwanakaya says the success of her makeshift clinic is due to its proximity to poor villagers who often lack the means to travel and may be daunted by the thought of visiting an impersonal, mainstream institution.
  • (13) She was a fixture on the scene for decades and in 1969 often performed as a male impersonator or drag king – an illegal act at the time.
  • (14) Please, get rid of the gimmicks – the faux-concerned and impersonal feedback loop and the specious “choice” paradigm designed to soften us up for privatisation – and listen to your frontline staff.
  • (15) The anonymity resulting from increasing specialization, the tendency to think impersonally in terms of probabilities following the introduction of screening programmes with routine examinations and the connected legalization of medicine are addressed as particularly important problems in this respect; all these trends beset the personal doctor-patient relationship with difficulties and suggest the procedure with the greatest technological input as the safest and most convenient solution, thus making it difficult to find the correct degree of moderation.
  • (16) Mahaffey disagreed with the family, saying "the possibility of a police impersonator needed to be explored".
  • (17) The mass media, in contrast, supply an indirect, impersonal and machine based opinion to an overwhelmingly anonymous public.
  • (18) In college students personal body areas were used to touch those of different gender while impersonal body areas were used to touch those of the same gender; personal body areas were more likely to be touched by others of the other gender.
  • (19) Many of A Yi's novels are modelled on his experiences as a younger man, when he was a policeman, and share some of the concern with precision and impersonality of a judicious crime report.
  • (20) Tina Fey’s unflattering impersonations on Saturday Night Live were an instant hit.

Inhuman


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.
  • (a.) Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) China’s new law also restricts the right of media to report on details of terror attacks, including a provision that media and social media cannot report on details of terror activities that might lead to imitation, nor show scenes that are “cruel and inhuman”.
  • (2) The measures to be adopted are also stressed in view of a more strict control and protection of human and animal health together with environmental hygiene from Salmonella infection and other Enterobacteria which are increasingly met inhuman and animal pathology.
  • (3) He was big, maybe 18st [114kg] when I last saw him but he looks thinner in the face in the video.” Muthana added: “What they [Isis] are doing is inhuman, this is not the son I brought up.
  • (4) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
  • (5) On Monday, the UN refugee agency also called on the Libyan government in Tripoli to close its refugee detention centres , describing conditions as inhumane and shocking.
  • (6) Because of exposure to violence and other acts of inhumanity common today, there is a danger that the dentist could lose sensitivity for members of society and some sense of what it means to be human.
  • (7) Her friends have been arrested and subjected to what they describe as cruel and inhumane treatment .
  • (8) I never knew a nation this great could treat its people so inhumanely.
  • (9) One of its board members is retired Major General Andrew James “Jim” Molan, co-architect of Tony Abbott’s “Operation Sovereign Borders,” the draconian program relying on the remote island detention centres condemned as cruel and inhumane by multiple respected human rights organisations.
  • (10) Pope decries 'inhuman' conditions for migrants on US-Mexico border Read more Last Christmas, though, the Jesuit reverend who runs Kino discovered that a very powerful man is paying close attention.
  • (11) Special attention should be given to the interactions between man and machines to exlude difficulties arising from "inhuman engineering".
  • (12) White House renews call for gun control after Virginia TV shooting Read more There will be another video to shock us and fulfil our collective voyeuristic instincts – maybe even, as happened on Wednesday in Virginia, a first-person documentation of another person’s brutality and inhumanity, filmed from the only end of a gun on which we’re supposed to want to stand.
  • (13) One of the first demands is that the bombardments by the regime and its [Russian] backers must end.” Merkel condemned the air raids on Syria’s second city as “inhumane and cruel”.
  • (14) It must be compatible with the human rights convention's protections against inhuman or degrading punishment .
  • (15) So far, only Corporal Donald Payne has served one year in prison for inhumanely treating civilians following a court martial hearing into the circumstances of Mousa's death.
  • (16) A corporal admitted inhumane treatment, but no one was convicted of killing Mousa.
  • (17) Britain was able to satisfy the court that deporting the radical cleric to the country of his birth would not breach his rights under article 3 of the European convention, which prohibits inhuman or degrading treatment.
  • (18) The audit of 65,000 employees follows accusations by China Labor Watch , an independent labour rights group based in New York, which alleged in August that Samsung suppliers hired children and used "inhumane" working conditions , and in September that there was illegal discrimination in hiring polices at some Samsung suppliers.
  • (19) The seventh, Corporal Donald Payne, became the first member of the UK military to plead guilty to a war crime when he admitted one charge of inhumane treatment.
  • (20) The grand chamber's ruling on Wednesday said the extradition of Aswat, who is currently detained in Broadmoor high security psychiatric hospital, would amount to inhumane treatment because his detention conditions were likely to exacerbate his paranoid schizophrenia.