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
On what anvils and wheels is the vapor pointed, twisted, hammered, whirled, as the potter's clay?
From The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 by Ruskin, John
Can you expect, by a system like this, to mould the human mind as you would mould potter's clay?
From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.
Argil, �r′jil, n. potter's clay: pure clay or alumina.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
