Sentences with phrase «only as a corpse»

But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine - guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say.

Not exact matches

Oden also has a curious habit of including excerpts whose only distinction is that they contain somewhat involved metaphors — a journey from Peking to Canton, one thief accusing another to the police, a merchant momentarily given false hope as he watches his ship founder at sea, an emperor choosing a day - laborer as his son - in - law, the difference in value between a pound of gold and a pound of feathers, a corpse still able to perform some of the functions of a living body — as if such metaphors were intrinsically humorous.

He also grants the common - sense view that a human corpse is a dead thing as a human body, but he still makes his panpsychistic point by insisting that even a corpse is composed of many living things and, as far as our knowledge runs, nothing else.29 In addition, he claims that his belief that there is only a relative and not an absolute distinction between mind and matter is given support by recent developments in physics that have shown that the differences between matter and various kinds of radiation are differences of degree and not of kind.

By «John Brown's body» we normally mean either his torso, as distinct from his head, arms and legs, or his corpse; and the word «soul» is used only in old - fashioned idioms — «He's a kindred soul,» «When I got there I found I didn't know a soul.»

Often, the only way to obtain bodies was by removing corpses from their graves, an illegal practice known as body - snatching.

The study also showed the method could not only be used to estimate time of death in different seasons, but as a way to determine the original location of moved corpses and even help in locating buried corpses.

The film stars Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox as coroners who take in an anonymous cadaver one night, only to find out that there seems to be some sort of maniacal, powerful force attached to the corpse.

I do still go back every now and then to the eccentric sleuths inspecting corpses in locked rooms, or to the hard - boiled dicks walking down their mean streets, but only as an exercise in nostalgia.

Ben later vanishes only to reappear as a corpse.

Mugen is the brute of the group: his special skills enable him to do such things as taking a number of enemies out with a swing of his sword, he also carries a bottle of Sake, which can be put down on the ground to entice enemies, he can effortlessly carry two enemy corpses around, and even run with them in his arms, he is also able to carry heavier objects, and finally he is the only member of the team that is able to kill samurai outright.

This turned the game into a corner - camping - ambush shooter as the only way to stay invisible was to crouch and not move - aka don't need to hack the game to cheat, they did all the work for you, smh... This killed any momentum Sony had built up from advertising and CoD: Ghosts went on to steal the epic melee style from it as well as the «perk system» where your streak earns you perks, metaphorically quartering all the good meat off Killzone 3's dead corpse before leaving it to rot.

They can be slotted into two primary positions: Neo-Conceptualism, which grew from Minimalism and Conceptualism to embrace techniques of photography and appropriation; and Neo-Expressionism, which exhumed the traditional notions of painting that had been stamped out by Modernism — only to represent them as a corpse.