Sentence examples for the human material from inspiring English sources

Such schemes founder because the human material is simply too base to be transmuted.

Whitman, "profoundly immersed in the human material," writes Roper, seemed "not really to be listening".

It did not matter that their countries lacked the human material – self-motivated and rationally self-interested individuals – apparently necessary for the pursuit of national wealth and power.

The fine art of shaping the human material for a dinner party has always stumped me, perhaps because human beings are far less reliable than food.

He worked with the human material that came to him from the depth of Russian history, people who to this day drink, steal and consider politics a source of personal power and enrichment.

The human material, a first upper molar, was discovered during the systematic excavation of a densely-packed bone bed in the basal part of the sedimentary sequence at the Cornelia-Uitzoek fossil vertebrate locality.

Sally's and my marriage seemed as contingency-proof as we could construct it, using the human materials we're all equipped with.

All of the human materials were obtained with informed consent, and this project was approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University.

To Brookner the human-material hybrid is familiar yet foreign; they are extensions of experience into the unknown, but receptive, unconscious of the world.

Upgrading the imperfect human material is all very well, but handling the transition between the superpeople and the ordinary variety promises to be awkward.

It's the only human material that can be shaped and distorted as you wish".