Sentence examples for divine man from inspiring English sources

"I think he's the most divine man who walks the earth, besides my husband," she said.

She interrupted someone who was chatting with him, saying, "I simply must kiss this divine man".

The collections of wonder stories (aretalogies) grew out of a Christology of Jesus as the divine man.

"He is a divine man who has dedicated a great deal of his time to the poor".

A miracle worker (theios anēr, "divine man") and stories about him comprised an aretalogy (from aretē, "virtue"; also manifestation of divine power, miracle).

She turned aside to me and exclaimed excitedly, 'Who's that divine man?' I said: 'My husband.' " But duty, not happiness, is what inspired most of the pieces in this book.

"Armadale," written just a few years after "On the Origin of Species," is obsessed with questions of free will: is human narrative divine, man-made, or ultimately a random concatenation of occurrences on which we foolishly project our fantasies?

There were tales of Heracles, the Greek hero, and a whole literature of Alexander the Great as wonder-workers, divine men.

Similarly when Renault tells us that Alexander's horse favours him not just because he was the only one to work out it was scared of its shadow, but because it believes he is divine ("men had not mastered it, but it would go with the god") there's no jolt of surprise or unease.

Suddenly those divine men appeared, battling their way through the crowd and, (joy!) I managed to touch Simon's denim jacket with a fingertip.

First it brought her a hazy, enervated heaven, occupied by a distant Father and Son, and now it's brought her a strange, possibly heretical heaven, occupied by two vaguely divine men.