Sentence examples for make a beast of from inspiring English sources
Nor that a dead Israeli face will make a beast of the Palestinian who killed the dead Israeli.
The epigram to "Fear and Loathing" quoted Dr Johnson: "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man".
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S Thompson, read by Ron McLarty (6½hrs unabridged, Whole Story Audio, £18.38) Dr Johnson's maxim that "he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man", quoted in the prologue of this 1971 American classic, neatly sums up not just the plot and the point of the book but also Thompson's savagely pessimistic outlook on life.
Accessory manufacturer Amzer has gone and made an absolute beast of a battery; one that pats the Seido battery on the head, gives it a juice box, and tells it to go take a nap.
In the course of his research he found Florida canals thronged with snakeheads, and a Thai man who claimed that one of the needle-mouthed beasts had tried to make a feast of his foot.
He was a beast of burden.
The additional expressions -- God made the firmament -- God made the beast of the earth, &c., occur subordinately, and only in a few instances; they do not necessarily convey a different idea of the mode of creation, and indeed only appear as alternative phrases, in the usual duplicative manner of Eastern narrative.
Although Flynn said it lacked the "epic pretentiousness" of that film, he nevertheless said of Blood Beast: "Corman made a career out of making cheap knock-offs of popular films, but he seems to be scraping the bottom of the barrel here".
The word "kind" has special significance in creationist literature, deriving from their interpretation of Bible verses such as Genesis 1 25 (King James Version): "And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good".
