Refine; make gentle

Usage examples of humanize.

We are going to destroy all enslaving anil degrading capitalist institutions and re-create them as free and humanizing institutions.

Cicero, the herald of the Augustan consciousness, had followed Panaitios in Hellenizing and humanizing the Stoa.

He sed the ethereal essunce of the koordinate branchis of super-human natur becum mettymorfussed as man progrest in harmonial coexistunce & eventooally anty humanized theirselves & turned into reglar sperretuellers.

He perceived that these men were about to humanize themselves by casting aside temporarily their inexorable and aggressive automatonism.

But the warriors they had created by humanizing animals, and perhaps, in secret by bestializing men, were more loyal.

The only real difference between a man born of a mother and father and a perfectly humanized machine would be the building material: living, nonliving.

By focusing public attention for once on long-range goals rather than immediate programs alone, by asking people to choose a preferable future from among a range of alternative futures, these assemblies could dramatize the possibilities for humanizing the future--possibilities that all too many have already given up as lost.

Other people, they’ve got to make a humanized pig just because maybe they can.

The humanized automaton would be just as clever—but also just as unreliable, fallible, just as much a slave to emotional biases—as a man.

A moment later and that figure followed him, emerging into substantiality and shifting from an octopal ape form to that of my brother Mandor, humanized, wearing black as when last I had seen him, though the garments were fresh and of a slightly different cut, his white hair less tousled.

I stepped down over the empty row, moved to the right, touched Gilva's still humanized shoulder.

The only thing that even slightly humanized him was his overwhelming concern for horses.

The in tensely humanized dreaming body of the old seers drove them to look for answers that were equally per sonal, humanized.

She adds a stabilizing and humanizing element to Wolf's life, which allows him to exert more and more control over the Old One.

Angered by the narrow, econocentric character of technocratic planning, they condemn systems analysis, cost benefit accounting, and similar methods, ignoring the fact that, used differently, these very tools might be converted into powerful techniques for humanizing the future.