mortal being

Example Sentences

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He denounces his status as a mortal being and goes on to encourage whoever’s listening to do the same if that’s what they want to do.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2021

Bohm was desperate to know, to discover the secret of everything, but he knew it wasn’t attainable, not for any mortal being.

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2018

Rather the open, clear, knife-through-butter pain that comes from a mortal being who eventually will lose all and yet who cares.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mortal being with the divine gaze triumphs over the sightless goddesses.

From Time Magazine Archive

All things fleet away," which Plutarch explains thus: "We do not dip twice into the same wave, nor can we touch twice the same mortal being.

From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Collison, Harry