Word: fleshing
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...matured with age and develops that wisdom which age has already brought to religion, perhaps some great scientist will bring us the full truth which will completely reconcile science and religion. Or must we wait for that until we reach that better country where the limitations of the flesh, to which Dr. Steinmetz refers, no longer hampers us--where we shall no longer "see through a glass darkly but face to face", and where we will be with God--the great fountain of truth and love and light--forever...
...that empty shell has succeeded, perhaps, where Alexander and the Caesars failed. Domains more vast than he or they could ever conceive of have fallen under the power of a name. A resurrection not of the spirit, it is true, but certainly the greatest that flesh alone can know. To one of Egypt's lesser kings chance has given fame more widespread than any monument could offer. Perhaps Sir Walter Raleigh was wiser than he knew when he penned the words "O eloquent, just, and mighty Death...
...first to become widely known. But there have been many like it--surgeons who have experimented on their own bodies, chemists who have labored fearlessly under imminent risks from fumes or explosives, finally these numerous workers with the X-ray, who have allowed their flesh to be burned away rather than abandon progress...
...role of Celimene, Mlle. Sorel brought her reputation, her usual studied technique, and her scintillating costumes, but she brought, no feeling of definite characterization, no gripping conviction of flesh and blood and human sensibilities. To one who had seen her in the two previous productions, she was again Mlle. Sorel, the Doucet-costumed, the brilliant technician, the vivid personality, yea, even "the magnificent", but not the sincere worker in the art of portraying character. One begins to suspect, in fact, that Mademoiselle has a very clever press agent...
...forth as great a variety of answers as the famous John Hancock riddle. To the College Office, he is merely a bit of machinery in a complex system, like the time-clock of a business establishment. To the individual in the course, he represents the frailties of the human flesh, to be plied with the wine of excuse and entreaty until his will is bent to the individual's purpose. The storm of hard-luck stories and heart-appeals that daily besiege a monitor's ear would do credit to a Hollywood composition course. And it is the sternest...