This is what we had in mind when we said that interest--human interest--is the key-note of our philosophy of historical composition.
This is the main cause of the comparative tameness of the Aeneid in point of human interest.
The passion of Medea for Jason is the motive which gives its chief human interest to the Argonautics of Apollonius, as the passion of Dido for Aeneas, suggested by it, gives the chief purely human interest to the Aeneid.
Where the poem seems to a modern reader to fail in human interest, the interest which it had for the poet's countrymen is revived by dwelling in thought on this representative character.
I'm a newspaper man, you know, and there isn't anything a city editor likes better than he does a human interest story.
Instance the fact that a great many manuscripts sell to newspapers and magazines upon the merits of that mysterious element in writing known as "human interest.
The matter of prime importance to most of our American editors is an article's content in the way of vital facts and "human interest.
If a reward were offered for an identification of "human interest" no jury could agree upon the prize-winning description.
The notion of conflict, like the fact, has its roots deep in human interest.
Human Interest in Human Nature The human interest in human nature is proverbial.
As the weeks rolled on and the spring drew nearer, Elisabeth gradually took up the thread of human interest again.
The world is full of curious facts like that, that have no human interest or educational value whatever.
Not entirely a scientific interest, but a human interest as well; science upon the one hand and an appreciation of the mystery, the beauty, and the bounty of life upon the other.
Other papers had seen the value of the "human interest" phases of the day's happenings.
So every other feature of the Sunday magazine should have points of human interest, either by contact with the news of the day or with men and women who are doing something besides getting divorces and creating scandals.
The feature, or human interest, story is the newspaper man's invention for making stories of little news value interesting.
Such leads, sometimes known as "human interest" leads, are admittedly more difficult than those of the summarizing type, their difficulty being but one effect of the cause which makes them necessary.
Very rightly, an obituary is handled with a sense of the sanctified character of its subject It offers no opportunity for fine writing or human interest; it simply gives the facts as briefly and impersonally as possible.
It is always used when any one of prominence is involved in the story or when the name, although unknown, can be made interesting in itself--as in a human interest story.
But this is very much like a human interest story--the reporter takes part in it--and we shall discuss that later.
A feature story is either a story that is thus played up or a story that is written for some other reason than news value, such as human interest.
Such are some of the little asides, so to speak, with which the virile teacher enlivens his subject and gives it broad, human interest.
Figuratively speaking, I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way.
I have got it into my mind that they live in a state of chronic injury and resentment, and on that account refuse to decorate the building with a human interest.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "human interest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
