potter's clay

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Nietzsche was the Marx of the right, the original culture warrior who believed that the future belongs to those with the courage to face the nihilism of the present and mold it like potter’s clay.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018

Fresh masa has a thicker consistency, more like potter’s clay, and it smells like slightly fermented corn syrup, especially if it sits out for 24 hours before you use it.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2015

The multitude stands between Destiny on the one side, and the Hero on the other; a sport to the first, and as potter's clay to the second.

From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by Morley, John

It does not seem to have occurred to him to regard his theme in the light of potter’s clay.

From The Battaile of Agincourt by Garnett, Richard

The potter's clay in which the ship was buried had preserved it, if possible, better than the Gokstad ship: but the movement of the soft subsoil had squeezed and broken both ship and contents.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.