It is a sad thing of human nature -- our desire to be a member of the herd and to chortle at the misfortune of the rebels who dare to question the status quo, At least until he or she wins.
While the type of repression under Ben Ali is a thing of the past, human-rights advocates claim that Islamists still face harassment by the state, which in turn can contribute to their radicalization.
Some scientists speak of attaining "chimerism," named for the mythical Chimera, which Homer described as "a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle".
Hellenic mythology proposed Chimera, which appeared on pottery 2,500 years ago and was described by Homer in the Iliad (Book VI) as "a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and snorting out of breath of the terrible flame of bright fire".
The human imagination is a thing of awesome power.
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For a thing of 'human' not existing now, neither will this be true, namely 'every human is human' nor that which says 'some human is not human' …" 9. Aristotle, De Interpretatione 2 and 3. 10.
The first concerns the existence of things—of human beings, for example.
This can be seen in the lexicogrammar in the way it construes the "things" of human experience: in the principles of noun compounding, the ordering of attributes, even in the build up of the numeral system – itself an effect of the stability of the morpheme/syllable complex.
Reggae being a thing is a human triumph of thingmaking.
The pneuma pervades all of substance and maintains the unity of the universe and constitutes the soul the incorporeal and, in many conceptions, immortal essence of a person or living thing —of the human being.
