It worked in the sense that it was fun to watch, but at smashing the patriarchy, not so much: for the hero to function as a fragile creature whom the mere prick of a needle can floor, he had to be so ridiculous that he became a de facto anti-hero, someone whose salvation we rooted for out of convention, rather than deeply wishing for it.
Mr. Wilson, a former hedge fund manager who has never before run for office, struck back by attacking Mr. DiNapoli, a veteran legislator, as a "creature of Albany" unqualified to function as the state's chief financial officer.
It helps your certitude as a creature, as a consciousness.
"I could see him as being asexual or omnisexual as a creature".
The second aspect of the idea of the human being as a creature operated very much more emphatically: the superiority of humans over all other creatures.
No creatures can create because as a creature it has a non-creative being which is different from God's being, an aliud esse.
Ford can affirm the freedom of the creatures vis-a-vis God's activity since deity does not function as a deterministic efficient cause as it does in Thomism and other forms of traditional theism.
The sisters function as a harmonious unit.
"We function as a nonprofit.
function as a "plantation boss".
