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Sentence Examples I think that my thoughts should be recorded forever on paper and bound so that mere mortals may read them for all eternity. It is too much for us lesser mortals to understand fully what we are supporting and why. Big business acts on a different scale of honesty, morality and truth to we mere mortals. All I can say is that where emperors fear to tread, ordinary mortals must hesitate. The great philanthropist, in other words, is financed by mere mortals who stupidly bear their taxes without so much as a plaintive bleat. Very rarely and very few blessed mortals are clasped by death in a peaceful embrace. Now he was desperately in need of calm, which he got in being together with other such mortals who were also equally scared. Yet for most mortals, the sight of loved ones suffering or dying prematurely is not ennobling. The heroes in both films were ordinary mortals destined to fight the afflictions of life. You've taken on too big a task for an ordinary mortal, or any collection of mortals. This harsh image, fearsome and ugly to mortals, is seen as beautiful to the gods. The three novels deal with the basic and at the same time universal existential questions that mortals face on a daily basis. James has to set himself apart from other mortals and purify himself from normal appetites in order to perfect his art. It is much easier to hurl accusations from above and demand that lesser mortals do the actual work. Given that even the experts cannot agree on the economic arguments, what hope have we ordinary mortals? That's about as close as it gets to celebrities mucking in with ordinary mortals. We are mere mortals, who are we to say there are not creatures living in the deep silts below. You can just about detect what he might have been driving at here, but lesser mortals may not quite get the subtle nuances. That 88 billion is such an enormous figure that it is impossible for mere mortals to grasp it. It might look great on supermodels, but, frankly, it's an insult to lesser mortals. Show More Sentences The 27-year-old collects world and Olympic titles like we mere mortals collect stamps. Polo has long been a favourite among the royals and their coterie, but it is increasingly accessible to mere mortals, too. To understand the contents would probably take half a dozen accountants six months of reading, so what chance have we mere mortals got? If maths professors cannot work out how mortgage rates are calculated what chance do we lesser mortals stand? Further, the tone of the column may have portrayed the writer as some high priest sitting in judgment of lesser mortals. She has understood that ordinary mortals like us need the inspiration of heroes. Ordinary mortals, however, get it in the neck for just happening to be driving by when the VVIP cavalcade zooms past. Boy shorts and vest are cute if the wearer has the body of a hungry child, but they are best left alone by ordinary mortals. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes. A Roman story makes them out to be mortals whom Zeus lofted into the heavens in recognition of their brotherly love. There is so much history bouncing off the hills above Lake Schinias that even giant Olympians are reduced to mere mortals. Besides the twelve Olympians, Demeter and Dionysios, the gods of wheat and wine, have a significant impact on the daily lives of mortals. They carry off mortals, most often children, if they are beautiful or otherwise exceptional, leaving a changeling behind. It is a humble but honest place, with food more hearty than fancy, and prices appealing to mere mortals and theatrical luminaries alike. The rate of temporal passage cannot be changed consciously by mortals, generally speaking. The man is art history now and the work, with the patina of age and importance, is beyond the critical comprehension of us mere mortals. Bhakti simply asks a person to translate this love for mortals to the immortal. At the last, Malraux had fallen among mere mortals, a giant carried on the shoulders of pygmies. The real danger is from the chaotic hatred between mortals that follows the wake of the enemy, not his inscrutable agenda. If you'd prefer to die with the wretched mortals of this pitiful world, then you are not fit to walk with darkness. Show More Sentences Everyone else gads about the forest, where fairies gleefully meddle with the well-being of mortals. The kind of place, in fact, where mere mortals who ran out of puff on steep hills and couldn't stay upright on skis would not get much joy. The Devil and his diabolical servants seemed to have no interest in the fate of individual mortals for the moment. They were all enchanters and enchantresses, for the city of Nevada was strictly forbidden to mortals. Then there was a moment of shame, so we put up a wall hanging to cover it from the gaze of mere mortals. As always, Rathbone gives us a Holmes that is quick-witted and focused, able to deduce what mere mortals cannot. He was an adrenaline junkie who willed himself to do things mere mortals would not consider. A tiny jut of skin hangs off her upper lip, as happens to mortals in the winter. Modern life whizzes by at a frantic pace and we mere mortals find ourselves in a constant whirl trying to find ways of catching up. All around him lesser mortals have given up the true faith to follow the almighty dollar, pound, or Euro. Indeed, even the most wretched of mortals would not dare to falsely assume the identity of the Father of Life! They seem content to let prices climb further out of reach of us mere mortals earning regular salaries. Witches help mortals, little stuff like giving a blind old lady temporary sight, magicking money to a homeless guy. We're living in an era of greatly diminished expectations for heroes and further diminished standards for manhood among mere mortals. Kubrick was all about making marmoreal masterworks, not pleasing mortals with morsels of wish-fulfillment fantasy. But we'd rather have honest mortals looking after us than deities who never take responsibility for their thunderbolts. On mere mortals, eye makeup always seems to slide off or crease, leaving the wearer looking like a laboratory test gone wrong. Far from being a discouraging picture of evil, cinematic devils are cool, calculating and one step ahead of the mere mortals whose souls they seek to add to their collections. Human vision is as close as we mere mortals will ever come to having a genuine superpower. If it's good enough for them it should be good enough for us mere mortals. Show More Sentences I cannot kill you, we deities are not permitted to kill mortals. But now, like its near neighbour Corsica, the Sardinians have realised that what is good for the stars should also be shared with the rest of us mere mortals! Evidently, his divine brilliance is too great for mere mortals. Poor thing, he doesn't have a clue what it's like for us mere mortals. In the book, Oberon has stolen a baby boy from mortals as a gift for his wife Titania. We are mortals, made of dust and need your spirit to moisten our brows. Venus, accompanied by her Games and Pleasures disguised as sailors, invites mortals to accompany them, and in fact has her cupids enchain the lovers with garlands of roses. Coltrane, a man of almost unbelievable gentleness made human to us lesser mortals by his very occasional rages. Few people have the time to traipse around galleries and exhibitions, while several works carry price tags that put them beyond the financial reach of mere mortals. Celebrity figures are fashion trendsetters for mere mortals everywhere. He is proud to be an outsider, beyond reach, unaffected by the social pressures that affect normal mortals. After 50, most ordinary mortals aren't up to a major career change. But he resembled by then an ancient Red Indian chief, and his expressions did not follow the patterns of other mortals. He killed all the mortals so there wouldn't be any witnesses. The saddhu or enlightened Hindu masters are taken care of, even deified, so that they may continue to apprehend the Absolute and astonish us mere mortals with their insights. The Titans came, and foolish mortals sought power in strange places. Maybe lesser mortals would have been put off by the volley of abuse he directed at her but in the end she triumphed, aided and abetted by passers by and stallholders. Sir Georg Solti embarked on his 22-year reign with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at an age when lesser mortals were queuing for their free bus passes. She will not talk to ordinary mortals, her feet won't touch the ground and she won't venture out of her palace more than a handful of times a year. Total awareness is a discipline beyond the ken of us ordinary mortals. Show More Sentences Before Hiawatha's story begins, we are introduced to the Master of Life and one of his gifts to mortals, the red pipe stone, from which the calumet or peace pipe is made. The characters often look up to the gods for guidance, speak of them and reproach them for putting such a predicament onto mortals of flesh and blood. Perhaps lesser mortals in this field should wait for the hearings? He showed no signs of jet lag, again something lesser mortals complain of. The coexistence of mortals and immortals has been lost, not to make the film easier to follow but to make it easier to sell for Hollywood marketeers. I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals. If, or I hope when, Hunter returns, that list must be slowed down from warp speed to give us mere mortals a chance. During the Classic period, the Maya ruler was the high priest, and the direct conduit between mortals and the gods. Here, the major term is die, the minor term is men, and the middle term is mortals. Intuitively this is as valid as All Greeks are men, all men are mortal therefore all Greeks are mortals. A drouthier pair of mortals could not have been found anywhere, and, at the first draught, each emptied his cup to the bottom! We watch them trade in one flashy sports car for another as mere mortals struggle to pay off our mortgage and squirrel away money for a rainy day. There are a few instances of mortals called Artemis or Hermes, but such literal theonymy is relatively rare, and mostly dates from the first century ad or later. On the eve of Ragnarok, a battle between the warring factions of Aesir and Vanir, Lenneth is dispatched to the land of mortals in pursuit of worthy allies. Yet surely he was a humorless robot of a man, spewing forth lonely and bitter critiques of all those lesser mortals with whom he could not identify. Bridging the age when gods lived alone and the age when divine interference in human affairs was limited was a transitional age in which gods and mortals moved together. When the priest declares that the goddess is tired of conversation with mortals, the chariot returns and is washed, together with the curtains, in a secret lake. If Ischia could procure a well-regulated outlet after the manner of Stromboli, this danger might be averted and a more ridibund race of mortals evolved. And thus may the slow and imperfect wits of mortals be satisfied, that Providence to the Deity is no moliminous, laborious and distractious thing. I smiled at them with the slight mix of condescension and thanks I thought befitted a beautiful woman as she passed schlumpier mortals on the street. Examples from Classical Literature Or again, the sounds may be hallucinatory and only some mortals may have the power of hearing them. From the days of remotest history, and our world over, spirits have often been transiently visible and palpable by some mortals. He converses with Don Juan and a couple of other blas mortals, uttering Shavian iconoclasms with an air of courteous boredom. I can hardly believe they are the wicked ferocious beings you all make out, poor, patient, put-upon looking mortals! Grant me my portion of the repast which the gods have prepared for all mortals, let me also partake of the golden Hesperian fruit. Thus he was perfectly rational, though when others beheld him he appeared the insanest of mortals. And Khalid cuts his hair, doffs his jubbah, and appears again in the ordinary attire of civilised mortals. Ib, the queen of the afterworld, the goddess of deceased mortals, whose abode is down below the pillars of the world. She lends herself to his practices in the same way that assistant mortals unconsciously help the spirits in table-turning. And what for centuries has it been to differing but always identical mortals? Besides, the fate of ordinary mortals should have no potency for such as we. On Upolu the name of pili has an early place among the doings of mortals and in the division of the lands. It is the malediction of mortals to want what they lack until they get it, when they want it no more. It was Cromwell's mood, as one who, living under the eye of God, scorned the vapourings of pedestalled mortals. Like Semele, I scorned the sports of mortals and thought only of my Beloved. The most sanguine and empty-headed of mortals would never have looked for it in her. While the gods and serpents were churning the ocean for the amrita, all woes and troubles for mortals came up first. From heaven came the chains, that were used for fettering the minds of mortals. But will and means, In mortals, for the cause ye well discern, With unlike wings are fledge. Little birds sent forth their flutey voices where mortals must be hushed for fear of enemies. Show More Sentences The men who did the tasks were not creatures of the day, but foresightful beyond the average of mortals. Among all those mortals who grew so wise that they learned the secrets of the gods, none was more cunning than Daedalus. They were said to be of half-divine and half-human nature, and sometimes appeared in the guise of mortals. And John Barleycorn, mighty necromancer though he be, is as much a slave to organic chemistry as we mortals are. Which are the divinities by mortals most assiduously adored? It opened with the melancholy reflection that, in the lives of mortals the best days are the first to flee. The most depraved of mortals has his moments of the higher vision. The art was communicated to mortals by Sarasvati, the consort of Brahma. It is ever thus, when we disobey the gods, to please mortals. Such understanding as this may belong to lexicographers and students, but not to ordinary mortals in ordinary life. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past. Curiously enough, the man who must know most about the whole thing is an Englishman, one of the most curious mortals in the British Empire. The senseless dead, the simulacra of mortals, as Homer says. Thersites, the ugliest of mortals, chose the form of an ape. The age allotted to mortals by the Psalmist is threescore and ten. Time has got all the credit of being the great consoler of afflicted mortals. After this he formally bids farewell to the cosmic and Olympian deities and enumerates the sons born of goddess to mortals. She saw herself as the most useless, vaporing and purblind of mortals. But, perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving. After Prometheus stole tire and returned it to mortals, Zeus ordered Hephaestus to create the first woman. Show More Sentences The book resonates with all the portentousness of the Fates spinning threads around inextricably entangled mortals. Fearing to be caught by mortals, they dived to the bottom of the Rhein. By us ordinary mortals of a mediocre animus that is only too anxious to pass by wicked giants for so many honest windmills, adventures are entertained like visiting angels. Micrometers are the most accurate hand measuring tools we mortals can buy. We must also expunge the verse, which tells us how Pluto feared, Lest the mansions grim and squalid which the gods abhor should he seen both of mortals and immortals. And who knows but that even this prodigious race of mortals might be equally overmatched in some distant part of the world, whereof we have yet no discovery. At midnight, in the silence, when the eyes Of happier mortals balmy slumbers close, The weary tale of my unnumbered woes To Chloris and to Heaven is wont to rise. He did not really care for any of the things of mere earth, he was in the clouds and looked down on all the weaknesses and wants of us poor mortals. Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of mortals? Words that rhyme with mortals What is the adverb for mortals? What is the adjective for mortals? What is the noun for mortals? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words mortally mortality rate mortality mortalities mortal danger mortal mortar mortar and pestle mortarboard mortared mortaria mortarium 7-letter Words Starting With m mo mor mort morta mortal