Chimera

How To Use Chimera In A Sentence

• Professionals invariably dominate such bodies, making consensus a chimera.
• Banning gene patents and chimeras won't save a single human life.
• Here now is the extreme limit of all moral inquiry, and it is of great importance to determine it even on this account, in order that reason may not on the one hand, to the prejudice of morals, seek about in the world of sense for the supreme motive and an interest comprehensible but empirical; and on the other hand, that it may not impotently flap its wings without being able to move in the (for it) empty space of transcendent concepts which we call the intelligible world, and so lose itself amidst chimeras. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Third Section: Transition from Metaphysic of Morals to the Critique of Pure Practical Reason.
• In the laboratory, scientists took the embryonic cells from each of these animals, fused them together, and gave birth to a new species on earth called a "geep," half sheep, half goat; the head of a goat, the body of a sheep; a chimera, a new composite creature. Speech to the City Club on The BioTech Century
• While concretised metaphors may be written into the strange fiction of novae, errata and chimerae, and this sort of fantastication therefore quite familiar, the pataphor is noticeably distinct in the fact that it concretises the metaphor, in this example, as it occurs, violating convention in the most fundamental way, rendering the whole narrative as unpredictable and metamorphic as a dream. Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
• The whole volume constitutes an effort to resolve a problem that must confront anyone who finds the world a deeply affecting yet intangible chimera.
• Following an initial chimeric state (bi - or multi-partner chimeras), maturation of the allorecognition system of corals could potentially lead to the death of the entire entity or of just some of the genotypes within the genetically heterogeneous individual. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
• Religious unity remained as much a chimera as ever.
• Hunt:Nekhorvich specialized in recombining DNA molecules. In the myth, Bellerophon was a prince who killed the Chimera.
• What kind of subjectivity can we assign to these chimeras, these fictions of a hopeful science?