Sentence examples for lowly origin from inspiring English sources

The photographer quotes Darwin's "The Descent of Man" in the caption: We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

The orderly lives of others are laid bare by their toothbrushes, lying moribund with flayed bristles or pocked with Jackson Pollock-like flecks or stuck in cloudy glasses of lowly origin.

Some of these set pieces are indeed thrilling: about a Nazi boarding school where doctors carry out extensive measurements on "racially pure" boys, driving many to suicide; about three spies coping with an epileptic seizure in a Budapest bathhouse; about a desperate and infuriating meeting between an aristocrat and his dearest school friend, an architect of lowly origin.

[James] talks of "cold-blooded assimilations" that "threaten... to undo our soul's vital secrets," and of the "assumption that spiritual value is undone if lowly origin be asserted".

Creangă's contribution to literature also covers a series of didactic fables written as lively dialogues, among them "The Needle and the Sledge Hammer", in which the objects of traditional metalworking scold the byproducts of their work for having forgotten their lowly origin.

It takes biology to remind us of our lowly origins.

They, in turn, enjoy reminding him of his lowly origins.

Alex Capus, one of three essayists in this book, harps on Spelterini's lowly origins.

His father was a virtuoso horn player of lowly origins, his mother a brewery heiress..

"Despite their lowly origins, they showed no sign of unease," James wrote approvingly.

His father was a virtuoso horn player of lowly origins, his mother a brewery heiress.