How to Use human nature in a Sentence
human nature
noun- You can't change human nature.
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There’s a real darker side of human nature that’s explored.
— Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 28 Dec. 2019 -
Psychologists say there are a handful of reasons -- and most of them come down to human nature.
— Scottie Andrew, CNN, 24 Mar. 2020 -
Camp is an outsider art form, but a crucial one to helping us understand and express human nature.
— Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 29 Nov. 2019 -
Beyond tech So far, coronavirus has offered a stark reminder of the very human nature of schools.
— Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2020 -
The entire fate of human nature thrown off course — with thousands of years of murder, rape, and war to follow — and for no discernible reason.
— Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 29 Feb. 2020 -
As is human nature, the two sides caricature each other and try to demonize each other.
— Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024 -
When prices decline, human nature extrapolates that values will go to zero.
— Steve Booren, The Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2020 -
Sure, taking some time to wallow your despair in a pint of Ben & Jerry’s or a few days under the covers is part of human nature.
— NBC News, 9 Dec. 2019 -
From the very beginning, the message of modernity has been one of control and mastery — over fate, over the natural world, over human nature itself.
— Damon Linker, TheWeek, 13 Mar. 2020 -
These two philosophies match up well with the two sides of human nature described in Wilson’s amplified Darwinism.
— Win McCormack, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2020 -
Some people’s motivations are as unpredictable as human nature.
— Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020 -
This explains the scandalous horror of slavery: people did not know at the time that all men are free (= have a right to human nature = can be independent petty producers).
— Mitchell Abidor, The New York Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2020 -
It’s the tale of human nature in the most dire of circumstances.
— Graham Averill, Outside Online, 24 Oct. 2022 -
The tide of sickness, distrust and fear slams up against the shoals of human nature.
— Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 20 June 2020 -
Come for the romp but stay for the study of human nature and human survival.
— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021 -
Just as the chimps taught me about chimp and human nature, these children taught me a lot.
— Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 2 June 2022 -
But even this most epic of tales is shaped by the centripetal forces of human nature.
— Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2021 -
Give and take, good and bad have always been part of our human nature.
— Yuen Pin Yeap, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023 -
That might have been the best thing that could have happened to the Aztecs, at least in the human nature department.
— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023 -
She has been loved and reviled and that’s human nature.
— Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2022 -
Rather, her work deals in human nature and the nature of emotions.
— Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2023 -
Much has changed over 2,500 years, but not human nature.
— William Falk, The Week, 19 Nov. 2022 -
Alas, my plan to sort and cull my thousands of books — — failed to make allowance for human nature.
— Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 17 June 2020 -
There is a bright side: the resiliency of human nature.
— Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 Nov. 2020 -
That’s human nature to kind of question yourself and things like that.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2022 -
There is something in human nature that doesn’t always want to be in charge.
— BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021 -
This aspect of our human nature renews my hope in a time where, for some, hope can feel hard to find.
— Natalye Paquin, NBC News, 6 May 2020 -
Or will we always be bound by the most base desires of human nature, destined to come up short of our ideals for the rest of time?
— Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023 -
Because human nature is complicated, human nature has multiple layers.
— Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
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