Sentence examples for a being of a from inspiring English sources

In crossing this threshold, one ceases to be a being of a certain morally privileged kind: for instance, one ceases to be an autonomous individual, or one turns from a person into a nonperson.

It is a being of a kind, not being as such.

The term "quid" denotes the essential mode of the being of a thing, that is, the mode of being by which it exists as a being of a certain kind.

Nin manipulated her voluminous diary for the purposes of self-promotion, used her talent for seduction to compensate for her limited writing talent and then took refuge in "the biggest lie of all, the one she used to deceive herself and to excuse herself: that she was an artist, and so a being of a separate order".

Third, every personage that figures in a story that is not a piece of science fiction does so as a full fledged bodily being, a being of a determinate sex and age as well as the native speaker of a particular language.

So long as an individual is capable of valuing, she remains a being of a morally privileged type, and interests stemming from her values have the authority to dictate how the individual ought to be treated.

A Balanchine ballerina is not just an executant; she should be a psychological force, a being of both rigor and allure.

Its door opened & a creature ("average height for a being of that type") beckoned them towards it.

His Mattie, like Tartt's Harriet, is a being of sheer will, an implacable fury hunting down the perpetrator of a capital crime against her kin.

I know that a man is a being of the greatest worth.…The worth of life, the worth of peace, is now so real and so significant.

I have an obligation to resist all coercive claims on my individual autonomy and choice that makes me a moral being, of which a noxious exemplar is a universal licence fee.