the human condition
noun
: part of being a person
The need to be loved is simply part of the human condition.
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Where Pink Floyd’s Seventies oeuvre obsessed on the brutality of the human condition, Gilmour’s latest solo music concerns itself with humanity’s fragility.
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
So my story is very involved with the complexities of the human condition, really, and how everyone’s looking for some comfort, some release from the hell of life.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
But Loretta tells her that that would be a mistake — actors are implicit investigators of the human condition and thus could be an invaluable resource in her sleuthing.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
Her women talk—and talk and talk, and then talk some more—and in each exchange the quotidian details of life spark ideas and insight into the human condition.
—Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
So my story is very involved with the complexities of the human condition, really, and how everyone’s looking for some comfort, some release from the hell of life.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2024
But Loretta tells her that that would be a mistake — actors are implicit investigators of the human condition and thus could be an invaluable resource in her sleuthing.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
Her women talk—and talk and talk, and then talk some more—and in each exchange the quotidian details of life spark ideas and insight into the human condition.
—Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
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“The human condition.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20human%20condition. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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