Mortal in sentence

252 examples of Mortal in a sentence

Freud said, look, there's much more to it than speech: "No mortal can keep a secret.

During the time I was in Bosnia, the mortal remains of Zumra's eldest son were exhumed from a mass grave.

They're going to survive as long as our species survives on what Shakespeare called "this mortal coil."

I'm already beyond the lifespan of most hunter-gatherers, and the outcome of a mortal combat between me myopically stumbling around with a stone-tipped spear and an enraged giant aurochs isn't very hard to predict.

Just as there was a point in your development as a child when your sense of self and of time became sophisticated enough for you to realize you were mortal, so at some point in the evolution of our species, some early human's sense of self and of time became sophisticated enough for them to become the first human to realize, "I'm going to die."

But the more we learn about how that limiter functions, the more we learn how we can push it back just a bit, in some cases by convincing the brain that the body won't be in mortal danger by pushing harder.

But then they'd remember that you're but a mere human of ordinary, mortal intelligence that didn't finish university, and they'd kind of forgive you, and pet you like the dog.

That resistance is a lot of the point of the poem, which shows me, Armantrout shows me what it's like to hear grave threats and mortal dishonesty in the language of everyday life, and once she's done that, I think she can show other people, women and men, what it's like to feel that way and say to other people, women and men who feel so alienated or so threatened that they're not alone.

But the truth is that I've spent my life up until this point and including this point, living in mortal dread of public speaking.

No mortal could stand before the Cretan bull’s mad rampage, but a chokehold from behind did the trick.

Now, both talking and breathing has a mortal enemy, and that enemy is laughter, because what happens when you laugh is those same muscles start to contract very regularly, and you get this very marked sort of zig-zagging, and that's just squeezing the air out of you.

And every one of those animals in every painting of Noah's ark, deemed worthy of salvation is in mortal danger now, and their flood is us.

From the divine heroes like Hercules, down the mountain below the miraculous but mortal heroes such as Beowulf, the great leaders such as King Arthur, and the great but flawed heroes like Macbeth or Othello.

Because humans have a mortal body accompanied by an immortal soul, we divide the universe nicely in half.

Gandalf's body was mortal, subject to the physical rules of Middle Earth, but his spirit was immortal, as seen when he died as Gandalf the Grey and resurrected as Gandalf the White.

Now, most people believe that sharks and dolphins are these mortal enemies, but during the Sardine Run, they actually coexist.

Just as Daedalus had many times ignored the consequences of defying the natural laws of mortal men in the service of his ego, Icarus was also carried away by his own hubris.

["I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man, just a mortal with the potential of a superman ... ... I'm living on."

So if I were emperor of the Internet, I guess I'd still be mortal, huh?

During this stage, patients often experience flu-like symptoms, but are typically not yet in mortal danger.

On the court we are mortal enemies, but the second we shake hands, we are best friends again.

Here, the bard plays with the rigid class system of his own time, taking three distinct groups and turning their society upside-down in a world where no mortal is in control.

According to legend, she was the first mortal woman, whose blazing curiosity set a chain of earth-shattering events in motion.

But the contents, Zeus told her, were not for mortal eyes.

With her sins absolved by the tribute of a god, and a blossom on the iron tree, Shi Lin had freed his mother, and reunited his family– both mortal and divine.

He's just an aging mortal with really bad knees, and maybe he's never going to ascend to that height again.

But mortal guards and ordinary weapons wouldn’t suffice, so the visionary god devised an indomitable new defender.

There was Philip II, who was divine because he was always praying, and there was Elizabeth, who was divine, but not quite divine because she thought she was divine, but the blood of being mortal flowed in her.

And what they did was, they sent Walter Raleigh down to physically separate her mortal self from her spirit self.

And the mortal self was the girl that Walter Raleigh was sent, and gradually he separated her so she was free to be divine.

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