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a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness)
the relationship between mothers and their children
How To Use human relationship In A Sentence
- Any concern about the human relationship to the planet Earth is a vastly different consideration from that of the human relationship to the cosmos as a whole.
- Brookner probes with scrupulous attention, keen irony and a profound appreciation of the endless ambivalences that beset human relationships.
- A hymn to me is a song that contains a sense of equanimity and compassion, and a reverence for human relationships.
- The spiritual disciplines, like the Christian ideal of caritas, that lift human relationships out of the realm of the utilitarian seemed to have no place in the new world that commerce was bringing into being.
- Similar relationships have been observed in non-human species -- hyenas use partners to gain access to carcasses and male dolphins employ "wingmen" to attain females for mating -- and considerable progress has been made in understanding these non-human relationships. Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
- Instead of complaining about reductivism, the real question should be: what are the abstract qualities of our human relationships that any online system * should* mirror. Relationships are complicated | FactoryCity
- Once it was concerned with human relationships - either with each other or their environment.
- So, in short, the things that (IMO) made Firefly bad sci fi were: too much sex, not balancing sex with other aspects of human relationships, failure to address the classic problems of the genre (such as FTL travel and terraforming), too much preachiness (for gay rights and for a "naturalistic" worldview, ie atheism), and clumsy treatment of the role of religion in human interactions and the big unanswerable questions. June 2007
- In commodity fetishism, people misrecognize the qualities of human relationships as qualities residing in objects themselves, so that the objects — commodities — take on “a life of their own”; instead of real relationships with people, we start to have false relationships with things. The anxiety of tapering, and some links at Hugo Schwyzer
- We know that stereotyping is an instrument of social repression and undercuts human relationships.
