Sentence examples for gift of fire from inspiring English sources
"Like Prometheus' gift of fire, technological advances are usually double-edged swords," said Mr. Roy, the Connecticut legislator.
"Each mechanical advance over the course of the past media century has brought the gift of fire closer while diminishing the gods offering it," Mr. Burr writes.
President Xi Jinping, speaking at a nuclear-security summit in the Netherlands earlier this year, likened the technology to the gift of fire granted by Prometheus to humanity.
Last year, two Broadway shows depicted Simone as an inspiration for a couple of unexpected figures: in "A Night with Janis Joplin," she helped to provide her white soul sister with the gift of fire, and, even stranger, in the crude but enthusiastic "Soul Doctor" — which reopens Off Broadway this winter — she was the force behind the "rock-and-roll rabbi" Shlomo Carlebach.
As the Tate exhibition shows, their hero was Prometheus, the Titan who in Greek legend was chained to the rock for stealing the gift of fire from the gods; fire was a metaphor for creativity, and the true artist was a rebel.
Prometheus was traditionally the founder of all human arts through his gift of fire, and Plato here supposes that the philosophical method he describes must likewise have been due to some Prometheus, perhaps under the influence of Philolaus' own allusion to Prometheus in his cosmology (see 4.2 above).
Again: Was it right that Prometheus, in befriending humankind with the gifts of fire and the arts, should offend the presiding god Zeus and himself be horribly punished?
The Committee was formed by C. Suydan Cutting, & has already received over 1300 gifts of fire arms & binoculars, as well as 91,092 rounds of assorted ammunition.
Matt Wrack, the Fire Brigades Union general secretary, has asked lawyers to review the proposal, as he believes setting early pension rates is in the gift of individual fire service employers, not the Government.
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