Sentence examples for dumb creature from inspiring English sources

More than a dumb creature feature, Cloverfield is an ingenious formal conceit: a $25m £12.6mm) CGI blockbuster that mimics a no-budget Dogme-style effort.

And the sparrow, batting at its rose window: this is Harry, to be sure, the half-caste who mars the Raj's "perfect symmetry" as well as the dumb creature caught in the war.

"Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope," Petronius remarked.

Animal habitat is vanishing at a steady pace -- about the pace of a bulldozer -- and the dumb creatures don't always pay attention to traffic when they're searching for unspoiled real estate between the developments and the golf courses.

Instead we learn that years later in St John, Virgin Islands, Oppenheimer could not look at a turtle for the memory of all the dumb creatures he had killed in the blast at Alamogordo.

Fourth, the crisis of confidence in television reflects the crisis of trust in politics: the old "we know best" culture - in which producers affected a patrician concern to enlighten the poor dumb creatures who were their viewers won't wash any longer.

And they must have Pipford's Select Nonesuch Mush in their bowls or nothing, for this monarch of canine dainties warranted a long and happy life for these dear dumb creatures, a life sans worms or mange, and for these reasons did Lady Warbones swear by it.

In the same sort of way, we find that animals are at one point dismissed as "dumb creatures", only to see that people are continually presented in images that draw attention to their creaturely qualities: people are variously described as being "as conceited as a cock upon a wall", or as filthy as rats, or as leaping like a cat upon a mouse, or as rising early like an early bird, etc.

They were so delicate, so pretty — she towered over them like some dumb shaggy creature that has just issued from its cave, examining the beautiful intricacy of life.

In college, and later, when I encountered people of high education, artistic achievement or professional status, I was afraid that I'd somehow be seen as dumb, a creature of the street who didn't belong in a world that valued education over brute force.

Osama bin Laden, formerly the world's rudest architecture critic, now either (depending on who you believe) feeding the dumb gulping creatures of the deep or having his skull put to use as Barack Obama's grisly personal wine-cup, has now also become the latest global figure to take part in the celebrity shelfie craze.