Sample sentences for HUMANITIES

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Definition

subjects such as literature, language, history and philosophy which study humanity, using methods that are more subjective than the more empirical methods used in the natural and social sciences

The core curriculum is supplemented by three theme courses — one in the natural sciences, the humanities and the social sciences.

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
Alfred L. Kroeber
He asks more about Cedric's classes, and then they talk about English and the humanities versus science and math.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
I expect this is some second great schism, where two humanities will live, apart but parallel.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
The humanities and amenities of life had no attraction for him — its peaceful enjoyments no charm.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
Holds a chair in the humanities at Fordham.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
It was called the New York Public Library of Humanities and Social Sciences.
James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment
Where are you in your Latin humanities?
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
All this had been why I walked blindly up to Humanities Hall instead of returning directly to my dorm.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
Welcome to Humanities for First Year Apprentices.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
It was a mixed humanities and social sciences course and he stuck it out for eighteen months.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
The new series, with a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, was filmed throughout the country during 2003.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
He returned to the institution where he had been a pupil and was given a position as prefect, a supervisor of the students, a teacher of philosophy and humanities.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
As a schoolboy he had been expelled for helping political prisoners escape; he had then tried several art schools, but in the end had become a student of the humanities.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
The traitorous Humanities instructor sat unblinking in his A MIDNIGHT TEMPEST — 425 chair while a baka clung to the white, tangled beard that had grown during his imprisonment.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
One can discern, in his ample pictures of the gentleman and the king, what forms and humanities pleased him; his delight in troops of friends, in large hospitality, in cheerful giving.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Baba smiled on, the way he did when Hector came by the week before to see him, the way he did when I showed him my application to the College of Arts and Humanities at San Francisco State.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
He felt the weight of his ignorance,—not simply of letters, but of life, of business, of the humanities; the accumulated sloth and shirking and awkwardness of decades and centuries shackled his hands and feet.
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
Winsett did not invite people to his house; but he had once pointed it out to Archer in the course of a nocturnal stroll, and the latter had asked himself, with a little shiver, if the humanities were so meanly housed in other capitals.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence

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