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Examples
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I can vouch for the fact that even in his most friendly and human moments, there was an inhumanity, or perhaps "unhumanity" about him that aroused in me that urge to kill.
The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914
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But I guess this is to make the obvious point about Lyotard's 'inhumanity', that although it presents itself in opposition to a valorised 'humanity' in fact humanity is predicated upon a mode of inhumanity, and vice versa--inhumanity, that is, not unhumanity.
Archive 2007-02-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007
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But I guess this is to make the obvious point about Lyotard's 'inhumanity', that although it presents itself in opposition to a valorised 'humanity' in fact humanity is predicated upon a mode of inhumanity, and vice versa--inhumanity, that is, not unhumanity.
Idhumanity Adam Roberts Project 2007
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Well, they continually shouted the unhumanity of the Jews through every medium of communications between 1933 and the beginning of the Final Solution in 1941.
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Once there was no life in the flesh, only an absence of life, a sort of unhumanity what was there to say?
The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004
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The nineteenth century culture was a depraved cesspool of unhumanity in many, many ways.
Hullabaloo 2004
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The gracious unhumanity of these creatures made me feel I was in the company of angels.
The Dreamthief's Daughter Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2001
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As for his hounds, theirs was the same stealth, the same symmetry, the same cold, secret unhumanity as his.
Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914
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But dear Mr Chavez, you showed us one more time that, humanity does not need a reason to act on to stop unhumanity in the world.
Venezuela Analysis 2009
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_unhumanity_ so much as his absolute want of sympathy with the progress of the race.
Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851
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