Being of independent and even of abundant means, the Clarendons had for many years stuck to their old Manhattan mansion in East Nineteenth Street, whose ghosts must have looked sorely askance at the bizarrerie of Surama and the Thibetans.
I had the good fortune of being engaged to participate as a trainer to GE Capital Corporation, where we helped to launch their now well-known and highly regarded black belt program.
So if the child now represents these instances as being blickets, she represents them as being more similar to each other than they seemed previously.
He went from being at the bottom of the barrel to being an inch above the bottom of the barrel.
The Memoir accuses both Duncan Forbes and his brother of being bousers in their youth.
Whenever Sally drinks her favorite beer, Coors’ brand image floods her senses with scenes of being on a hot beach drinking something refreshing.
“We’re the only ones left in the neighborhood who still make pickles on the premises,” said the master briner, who agrees with the historic trust’s warning that “irreparable damage” is being done by new high-rise condos and hotels.
However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008
The metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas holds that all real beings have both essence and existence.
In a way it is comforting, perhaps even life affirming, for the majority of human beings, nonsuperstars, to think they have chosen the other course.
Culture, for me, is the effort to provide a coherent set of answers to the existential predicaments that confront all human beings in the passage of their life.
The proneness of animals is opposed to the erect posture of human beings.
At the southern tip of the island that was shaped like a letter qof they splashed up a stone embankment and clambered stiff and stumbling like unarticulated iron beings.
Reduvids live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack human beings.
Some evolutionary theorists stress that cultural innovation allows human beings to overcome the blind stumblings of natural selection: we deliberately solve a problem and pass on that solution to our descendants, who improve on it in turn.
The set of human beings is a superset of the set of human children.