Sentences with phrase «of ordinary mortals»

In a world of ordinary mortals, you are a Wonder Woman - DC Comics Inspired Aluminum Bracelet Cuff - Diana Prince - Hand Stamped

This has happened, because the Australian population has been conditioned and propagandised into believing that there are no alternative scientific views on the subject — and that Al Gore, [whose lifestyle produces more emissions than that of almost all of the ordinary mortals he preaches and lectures to], had to be obeyed when he came to warn Australians that they had a duty to vote Labor in order to save the planet.

From his own work, he picks out Progress 8, a quintessentially Laws policy, heavy with data, much of it beyond the grasp of ordinary mortals.

Not exact matches

Indeed, many of the specific things they portray are beyond imitation, at least for ordinary mortals.

Is it then any wonder that we ordinary mortals have our times of estrangement and alienation.

In fact, he still does — though it has already been transformed and resurrected and is therefore no longer subject to the ordinary laws of our physics, which govern only mortal bodies and material objects.

All the elements were in place for one of those larger than ordinary mortals» performances, but the gambit seems to have fallen flat.

Or, even in us ordinary mortals, the sense of duty which made Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn say that conscience «takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides» — that is not simple.

The birth in the Lumbini gardens is accompanied by many marvelous miracles and signs, and he is born, not as a mortal of ordinary sort, but as a mighty spirit, omniscient and exalted.

Tetlock's latter work, particularly, looks at the characteristics of those that make good forecasters and explains how ordinary mortals can get better

Liberated from those mere mortals and their everyday concerns, the film derives much of its humour from the idea that the cape - wearing, mallet - swinging Norse deity is more ordinary, and certainly more conservatively dressed, than the weirdos he meets on his travels.

Unlike the Hercules of myth, Ratner's version has no divine heritage — he's just an ordinary mortal with a reputation so fearsome, it's downright legendary.

Zippy, kinetic and brashly funny, «The World's End» comes to the U.S. from its native England hard on the heels of «This Is the End,» an American comedy about ordinary mortals (comedians, actually, so maybe not so ordinary) manning up to deal with...

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones — Set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray (Lily Collins), discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of half - angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons.

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Mortal Instruments revolves around Clary Fray (Lily Collins, Mirror Mirror), an ordinary teenager living in modern New York City, who discovers the truth about her lineage after her mother (Lena Headey, Game of Thrones) mysteriously vanishes: namely, that she is a descendant of the Shadowhunters, a legion of half - angel warriors who (in secret) protect humanity from the forces of darkness.

If you aren't a qualified investor who has access to the full range of investments ordinary mortals are denied — private limited partnerships (hedge funds, private equity, commodity funds, etc), what can you do?

Since you are old enough that RMDs must be taken, you should do this in consultation with a professional (don't rely completely on what the IRA custodian (or its call center employee) tells you), because even IRS Publication 590 throws up its hand in the matter of explaining this to ordinary mortals and simply says

He didn't want anyone on that ordinary block in Pelham to know he was anything but one of them, though ultimately he was as mortal as us all.

The tenets of agile assume far less foreknowledge and that is what makes them useful for ordinary mortals.

Scientists are as much victims of fashion as ordinary mortals are — a fact illustrated by the rich history of junk science and false alarms of the last 30 years.

As there is such a lot of climate - related literature and some of it is consensus approved texts and some are not, I just wanted a list of which ones us ordinary mortals are permitted to read.

But explain the theory of time dilation, the idea that traveling close to the speed of light slows down time, to we ordinary mortals and we are stunned at the thought.