Sentence examples for mere creatures from inspiring English sources

Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are guilty of many things, but being mere creatures of the president is not one of them.Still, if the presidential branch doesn't run on cronyism alone it can't run without it.

Such corporations are the mere creatures of the legislative will; and, inasmuch as all their powers are derived from that source, it follows that those powers may be enlarged, modified, or diminished at any time, without their consent, or even without notice.

On the one hand, Hume is committed to the empiricist claim that as mere creatures of the mind, dreams depend on prior impressions but themselves count as ideas.

This mode of election will obviate the inconveniences of a choice by the people at large, and remove the absurdity of leaving it to the House of Representatives; for as they would be the mere creatures of that body, they must necessarily be subservient to their will and pleasure.

God seems to say that it is right for human beings to persist in the belief that God is just and merciful (the attributes proclaimed before Moses at the top of the mountain right after the people's idolatry down below) even though we, mere creatures, cannot hope to understand or explain the acts or intent of our Creator.

Today's minimalism conjures a life of such intangible ease that the mere creature comforts of visibly abundant stuff are transcended.

"Seriously afflicted by something resembling a cold," according to a preconcert announcement by City Opera's general and artistic director, Paul Kellogg, she appeared in a tawny wig and conventional costumes, and coquetted as a Carmen who had descended from the freedom glimpsed in the rehearsal to a mere creature of stereotype.

But more than providing mere creature comforts, along with medical care, these hospital units are designed to cater to a persons every whim and need.

In the past, Clinton had dismissed Tompkins as being "destitute of language, science, and magnanimity a mere creature of accident and chance, without an iota of real greatness".

On the other hand, if he answers affirmatively, then he compromises the divinity of the Son and renders him a mere creature, as it will be possible for the Son to not exist his existence will not be inevitable.

The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.