Sentences with phrase «draw human breath»

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Just as the ancients used the terms «wind» and «breath» metaphorically to refer to the invisible «spiritual» forces that operate in human societies and motivate their cultures, so we may need to draw upon such vague and indefinite terms in order to understand what is happening in this tradition.

The whole great human organism, overcoming a momentary hesitation, will draw its breath and press on with strength renewed.

At his birth a human being enters on the scene of life, draws a breath of air, beginning the process of living with a cry of pain, pays the tribute of a tear to Nature, just tastes life's sorrows before any sweets have been his, and before his joints have consolidated, tender as he is, he dies, perhaps because he was left exposed as a newborn child, or because he has suffocated, or because some illness has suddenly put a stop to his life.

Mosquitoes prowling for a blood meal are drawn to the plumes of carbon dioxide exhaled with each human breath.

In the drawings each mark is the length of her own breath, but now the paper is transparent, skin like, hung in rows, unframed; referencing the corporal nature of the human body.