How to Use the human condition in a Sentence

the human condition

noun
  • This is a solemn place, where the human condition is laid bare.
    — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • That’s just the human condition, right?
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • What does this state of affairs suggest about the human condition?
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Her focus is on what unites the human condition with nature and the cycles of life and death.
    — Bakr Muhammad, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The second level is that of the novel, whose task is to plumb the depths of the human condition.
    — Nina Mesfin, New Yorker, 7 June 2026
  • The result on screen is a creature that speaks to the human condition on a bone-deep level.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The Alexander story is very much one about the human condition.
    — John Bleasdale, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The contempt for what was, to my mind, an essential part of the human condition was hard to swallow.
    — Laila Lalami, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Actors show us something about the human condition.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
  • These are kind of, like, permanent features of the human condition.
    — Lisa Vernon Sparks, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2024
  • This great film raises good questions and provides some answers about the human condition.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 10 Mar. 2025
  • These acts that exist in the human condition – from not picking up dog poo to killing your wife and everything in between.
    — John Bleasdale, Variety, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Breaking out in inflamed bumps on your face now and then is an inevitable (but annoying) part of the human condition.
    — Mark Hay, SELF, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Luther, to me, is as enigmatic and crucial to the human condition as music itself.
    — Kui Mwai, Essence, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Asking big questions about the human condition.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
  • Yorgos sees what’s happened to the human condition and creates these predicaments.
    — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 25 June 2024
  • These two states are common to the human condition but rarely acknowledged at cocktail parties.
    — Jed Brewer, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The entire range of the human condition and emotion seems to have been captured on benches over the last century or so.
    — Elizabeth Blackwell, Longreads, 14 Nov. 2024
  • God, morality, truth, knowledge, and the human condition can all be explained by this system.
    — Big Think, 5 Feb. 2026
  • This process leads it on a journey to understand the human condition—all set against a backdrop of swelling synths and soaring guitars.
    — Eoghan O'Donnell, Vogue, 30 Dec. 2024
  • To watch calluses form on the tips of my tiny fingers and to become a constant observer of the human condition.
    — Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Mike Leigh is one of the most prolific living filmmakers, an acolyte of the human condition.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Dissociation is a type of freeze or shutdown response that’s part of the human condition.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Marty was a clear-eyed scholar of the violent elements of the human condition.
    — Eboo Patel, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
  • This sounded to Darcy like a description of the human condition.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • And his book, packed with some of the more delightful and funny obituaries, is a tribute to the human condition.
    — John Baldoni, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Gabriel would harness his vocal gift and his ability to distill emotions core to the human condition into songs that have stood the test of time.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
  • Adams is both witty and wise, and the series is full of genuine insight about the human condition that will stick with the reader long after the books are done.
    — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 12 June 2026
  • This genuine desire to speak broadly to the human condition can veer, at times, toward New Age self-help.
    — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
  • This film is a primal howl, a white-knuckle ride that explores the devastating fragility of the human condition.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025

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