Sentence examples for mortal thing from inspiring English sources
"You will do your mortal thing," she said sadly.
"Each mortal thing does one thing and the same," said Gerard Manley Hopkins.
"Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves -- goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came". What LeBron James does is him: for this he came to South Beach.
In No Mortal Thing, a witness to an assault in Berlin finds himself drawn into the 'Ndrangheta's net.
His new book, No Mortal Thing, is out in January; the next is being written and the research has been done for several others.
No Mortal Thing deals with the 'Ndrangheta, the little written about but immensely powerful mafia-like organisation based in Calabria which controls much of Europe's cocaine trade.
Their message was: Do not confuse common subjects with prosaic painting; Rembrandt proves the opposite — that the divine lives within the husk of mortal things.
David Storey's beautiful 1970 play about old age, mental infirmity and what Virgil called "the tears in mortal things" is one of the glories of modern drama.
"Our revels now are ended" becomes not a glowing cosmic recital but a particularised vision of the fragility of mortal things.
Not that I can think well of every light separation, or that all in a Church is to be expected gold and silver and precious stones: it is not possible for man to sever the wheat from the tares, the good fish from the other fry; that must be the Angels' ministry at the end of mortal things.
Empedocles of Sicily nominated a mix of water, earth, aether and sun as the fabric of all mortal things, and Democritus earned an enduring place in history with one fragment of observation: that all matter consisted of tiny particles called atoms.
