Sentences with phrase «ordinary mortals»

So far as I could tell, though, it's not ready for prime time yet, in the hands of ordinary mortals equipped with nothing more powerful than a browser.

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

When this overconfidence persuades people that they don't have to bother learning to be competent like ordinary mortals, they trap themselves far below their potential.

He is an artist, a visionary whose unique gift sets him apart from ordinary mortals.

Try to explain but have little sympathy either way as ushers constantly on move and do not feel as ordinary mortals do.

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

Without wading too deep into psychological analysis (although Loury gives permission to do so), these inner conflicts had everything to do with a Harvard professor who, feeling simultaneously condescended to and omnipotent, was doing drugs, was keeping a mistress whom he violently abused, and was generally living outside the rules binding upon ordinary mortals.

With its pervasive psychological realism, Halakhah has recognized that ordinary mortals need to be jogged out of their spiritual lethargy, and that unless they are prodded to specific action, many will be quite content to neglect the religious life completely.

One difference between a saint and a practicing theologian is the saint's ability, to shed — for the moment, at least — the personal hangups that beset ordinary mortals, enabling him (or her) to receive, clearly and sensitively, the penetrating insights that God would have one grasp.

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...

Which is precisely what director John McTiernan does in his slick, gaudily suave guilty pleasure of a movie, which is filled to the brim with private planes, Caribbean retreats, overdone hairdos and marathon couplings on marble stairways that would leave ordinary mortals black and blue.

They walked amongst ordinary mortals like goddesses down from Mount Olympus, without so much as deigning to notice their own difference.

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?

Contrary to the image conveyed by underwater battles in James Bond films, rapid exertion and stress are the enemies of a good dive for ordinary mortals.

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.

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.

(If such a person existed, he'd frighten us ordinary mortals).

If an ordinary mortal is sufficient as surety, how much more so for the one who spoke and created the world.

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

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.

Ordinary mortals might have quailed under the scrutiny, but not May.

One is an ancient, grumpy and rather self - centred creature which claims to know secrets unavailable to ordinary mortals.

Buried in Albert Einstein's mail one spring day in 1953 lay a letter from an ordinary mortal, a 20 - year - old high school dropout named John Moffat.

Just like us ordinary mortals, the princess too loves brands.

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.

And while character education is bound to attract pioneers who will embrace it in full, the ordinary mortals who come in their wake will not be so zealous.

Sometimes, Alice's poise could make her rather too oblique for ordinary mortals.

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

If you want to actually buy anything and you are an ordinary mortal and not a Swiss gazillionaire, head to MUSEUM EDITIONS.

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.

What we all know perfectly well is that, regardless of the age or irregularity of a tennis ball, when it's served by a top ten (or top 100) player we ordinary mortals have little chance of doing more than watching it speed by us.

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

By some magical means not available to ordinary mortals, he «knows» the hemispheric average temperatures of these periods, and so he «knows» that the reconstructions must be wrong.

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.

The word Oracle traces its» roots as far back as ancient Greece, where the priests were assigned the term due to their ability to communicate with the Gods and relay their will to ordinary mortals.

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