Sentence examples for mere man from inspiring English sources
It is too terrifying and too potent for mere man.
It has become mere man against the wrath of nature.
Worst of all, he is not a mere man, but an intended modern-day Everyman.
He insisted that Jesus Christ was a mere man who preached the resurrection of the body rather than the immortality of a nonexistent soul.
Memories of the self are often in service of other agendas, including the settling of scores and the creation of a hero where a mere man once stood.
They accepted Jesus as God's revelation but still a mere man, divine by office rather than by nature; Socinians thus rejected the doctrine of the Trinity.
It can also have the tendency to turn mere men into gods.
Sylvia, a nymph of Diana, leaps about with her girlfriends, abjuring mere men.
So what is it about us in the west that marks out the perpetrator of such a generous act a "saint" above mere men?
The early Church Fathers adopted an attitude of modified Euhemerism, according to which Classical mythology was to be explained in terms of mere men who had been raised to superhuman, demonic status because of their deeds.
Europe-wide archaeological and anthropological research over recent years suggests that women may have been associated with the warm and sunny south, while mere men may have seen themselves as embodying the qualities of the colder harder north!
