Sentence examples for creatures of circumstance from inspiring English sources

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Or maybe, as Machiavelli observed, we humans "are so simple, and so much creatures of circumstance, that the deceiver will always find someone ready to be deceived".

Even Mr Murayama warms to the thought of "democratic" Matsushita regarding its staff as "family members".Yet Japanese firms are no less creatures of circumstance than are businesses elsewhere.

On a shelf stuffed with hardcover books, I found some unfamiliar titles by familiar authors — "Creatures of Circumstance" by Somerset Maugham, for instance, and "Daylight on Saturday" by J. B. Priestley.

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The successors of Basil II were rather the creatures of circumstances, because they did not make and seldom molded.

Oddly, quietly, they support another theme of Frady's story: that King was essentially a creature of circumstance, pressed into shape by events, often timid though also brave in a self-dramatizing way.

But instead of aping the old Stalinists and denouncing them, Aaronovitch shows them as creatures of their circumstances.

But they are creatures of their parents and of circumstance.

Most people missed it because of circumstance.

They were victims of circumstance.

Others learn out of circumstance.

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