Sentence examples for a mere man from inspiring English sources

Worst of all, he is not a mere man, but an intended modern-day Everyman.

He insisted that Jesus Christ was a mere man who preached the resurrection of the body rather than the immortality of a nonexistent soul.

Memories of the self are often in service of other agendas, including the settling of scores and the creation of a hero where a mere man once stood.

They accepted Jesus as God's revelation but still a mere man, divine by office rather than by nature; Socinians thus rejected the doctrine of the Trinity.

Others were scandalized that Jesus was depicted as a "mere man" and that he and Mary Magdalene hinted at more-than-friendly feelings toward one another.

But the disciplined leader and the inspiring orator is also a mere man, and nobody knows better than a preacher that men can be pitiably weak creatures.

This rough apprenticeship on a seal-hunting schooner does, however, make a man of a mere literary man, and in the end he is able to accomplish labours that might almost be compared to those of Gilliatt on the rock.

He is not a mere medicine man for the people, or a healer or just "another" social justice worker.

Others have attempted to answer this question by saying that Jesus was a "mere" good man with no divine dimensions.

Cameron, he likes to say, was a mere PR man outside politics, while he was editor of the Spectator.

Giuseppe Conte, a previously unknown lawyer whom many people regard as a mere front man, will be sworn in as Prime Minister on Friday.