sentences:  The nationalist and racist connotations of Japanese "Yamato-damashii" are comparable with German "Herrenvolk" ("Master race").Carr lexicographically analyzed "Yamato-damashii" definitions among modern general-purpose Japanese dictionaries from four publishers, namely, "Daijisen" (Shōgakukan, 1986), "Daijirin" (Sanseidō, 1988), "Nihongo Daijiten" (Kōdansha, 1989), and "Kōjien" (Iwanami, 1991).For instance, this definition from the popular "Daijirin" dictionary gives the "kanji" 大和魂, modern and Old Japanese pronunciations, two meanings, synonyms, and usage examples from Japanese literature.