Sentence examples for perishable body from inspiring English sources

The author stressed that a "perishable body weighs down the soul" (Wisd. Sol. 9 15) and stated that "being good" he had "entered an undefiled body" (Wisd. Sol. 8 20), a viewpoint that was quintessentially Platonic in its vision of a soul that predated the body.

According to C. V. Radhakrishna Sastri, "Sara" also refers to an arrow, and the perishable body shines if it is aimed at Bhagavan, because He shines in that body".

If humor is perishable — boy, is it perishable!

Rama says that the body is perishable, but the soul is immortal and listening to this, the enlightened Tara bows to Rama and gains the boon of supreme devotion.

The fruit bodies are highly perishable, due largely to the high water content (around 90%), the high level of enzyme activity, and the presence of a flora of microorganisms.

What he does, in fact, conclude is that the soul is most like, and most akin to, intelligible being, and that the body is most like perceptible and perishable being.

Christianity has always seen the human body as essentially the tainted vehicle of the perishable soul, something which has to be tamed and disciplined – a fleshy obstacle to salvation.

Another is a body of non-Western traditions of making art from perishable materials, as in Japanese ikebana.

In fact, in framing the argument in the way he does Plato furnishes the conceptual framework needed for saying that body and soul differ in kind, the one being perceptible and perishable, the other being intelligible and exempt from destruction.

Lucas is perhaps best known for her works that adopt perishable food as explicit sexual signifiers to question traditional depictions of the female body and the conceit of the macho male.

The extreme dryness of the climate preserved the bodies and their grave goods to a remarkable degree, including perishable items like clothing and food.