Sentence examples for that of man from inspiring English sources

Christian tradition holds that the Song of Solomon in the Old Testament is an allegorical representation of God's relationship with Israel as that of man and wife.

And since apples and humans go way back — Thoreau begins his essay "Wild Apples" by noting, "It is remarkable how closely the history of the Apple-tree is connected with that of man" — a little backstory is necessary.

Her depiction of the human situation in the world was existential rather than Christian, and her pessimism concerned the nature of God just as much as that of man.

He halts and swivels to the right (upper part of body turning as rigid vertical unit, like that of man in plaster cast) to acknowledge Big Ed's traditional act of obeisance, a quasi-Hindu bow with fingertips reverently joined.

Instead, he holds that every human language is really a failed and garbled translation of a divine language that speaks in things: "It is the translation of the language of things into that of man".

James certainly believed that he was the image of God on Earth, but in those days men believed in the divine right of all sorts of customary authority, including that of man over woman and master over prentice.

Mrs. Romney noted that the burden of women may still be greater than that of men.

And the response of women was overwhelming when compared with that of men.

The literacy rate of women is significantly lower than that of men.

(Outside the aristocracy and upper bourgeoisie, literacy for women was considerably below that of men).

The 2010 rate was 20.3 percentage points lower than that of men.