Sentence examples for Act of man from inspiring English sources
"But what comes now, they say, is the act of man.
But it is an act of man, no matter how primal, eternal, Biblical, or infernal it may seem.
Where is the sense that this was not an act of God but an act of man?
"Don Juan in Hell" was originally written as a separate scene in the third act of "Man and Superman".
The defining catastrophe of post-colonial Sri Lankan history was an act of man, a law, promulgated in 1956, when the island was still called Ceylon.
Sheehan acknowledged that while many zookeepers describe their animals' quarters as escape-proof, "neither ingenuity nor diligence is required of animals set free by an act of man".
In 2010, Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, filmed a campaign ad that highlighted his outsider politics, his distance from President Obama, and his love of firearms, all in one memorable act of man-on-bill violence.
Even more ill-founded were the efforts to cast Linda Lovelace as a feminist pioneer; from a distance, the fantasy of a woman deriving her sharpest satisfaction from the most slavish act of man-pleasing seems more, not less, like something that only a man would dream up.
Their occasionally overblown rhetoric was the act of men who, stripped of dignity, try to reclaim it.
It is defiant – the desperate act of men too profoundly convinced of the rottenness of our civilisation to want to save a shred of its respectability".
It wasn't that long ago that men grooming was generally seen as being less macho, but today those opinions are largely gone and the act of men grooming has become mainstream.
