How To Use Immortality In A Sentence
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The fall in popularity of the death's head and the subsequent prevalence of the cherub was a reflection of the Great Awakening and the belief in the immortality of the soul: "Cherubs reflect a stress on resurrection, while death's heads emphasize the mortality of man.
Headstones for Dummies, the New York Edition
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-- and that they lived in other worlds -- but there is no passage showing that they believed in what we call the immortality of the soul.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews
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They lived under nine independent caciques or chiefs, and possessed a simple religion devoid of rites and ceremonies, but with a belief in a supreme being, and the immortality of the soul.
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Some religions include a doctrine of personal immortality.
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Also, there is the mythological theme of the Monkey King, who has partaken of the Peach of Immortality.
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Mr. Ettinger's ideas, which he popularized in a 1963 book, "The Prospect of Immortality," spawned what some refer to as the cryonics movement, though by most accounts it is a small endeavor: a scattering of enterprises around the country with dues-paying customers totaling a few thousand, a few hundred of whom have actually been deep-frozen.
NYT > Home Page
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They are certainly enough to give him immortality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course you use the term immortality in a relative sense?
The Blue Germ
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When fate marks you down for immortality you'd just better bite the bullet and lace your boots up tight.
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I seek the consulship, which is immortality—a prize worth fighting for, yes?
Imperium
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A less driven woman might have been content with such generous helpings of immortality, but she was not that placid woman.
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The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, is the secret of its immortality.
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Lear's book of parrots was an immediate success and no doubt had he persevered with his ornithological studies he would have achieved immortality as a new Audubon.
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More slowly than otherwise, this long sighing inscription offers the deathless poet, unbodied, to the realm of immortality, where some may feel his power as much "as we" ... as we did, as we do.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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The basis of this weekly Robin installment is Baldeon's full-page image (click on thumbnail to the right) of the current Robin (Tim Drake) and the original Robin, now Nightwing (Dick Grayson), about to confront each other over ... well, some pool of immortality thing -- I wasn't really following.
Archive 2008-04-01
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You see, Mr. Jennings, the strength and power contained in that cell may hold the key to immortality, if I read my legends of lycanthropy correctly.
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The architect of Timeship, Stephen Valentine, just came out with a book [Timeship: The Architecture of Immortality] about his still-unbuilt design.
Boing Boing
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In so doing it has attained a certain form of immortality.
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What seems indisputable is that sporting immortality couldn't be bestowed on a more modest or endearing human being.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Greeks did believe that the soul could be immortal, but they would have been opposed to the notion of the immortality of the body.
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But the scientific quest for quantification is important to those funding it – those filthy rich AI-Guys who have so long dreamed of conscious machines and artificial immortality (uploaded minds).
Continuation…
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In contrast, Secretariat's 31-length romp into immortality in the 1973 Belmont drew a crowd of 67,605.
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Yet some try hard for a small fragment of immortality.
Times, Sunday Times
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That obsessive-compulsiveness obviously helped him to chess immortality.
Book World: A chess master who defeated himself
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Thus, to dismiss writer-director Darren Aronofsky's hyper-ambitious third feature The Fountain - a heady fusion of science fiction, metaphysics and a melodramatic quest for immortality both romantic and spiritual - for simply believing in its own sentimental grandiloquence is to deny one of the most exquisite and strangely moving trips to the multiplex this year.
GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky.
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Then we come along, power hungry wizards looking for the secret to immortality, and we bag you.
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There were pillars, shadows, memorial brasses, boys scuffling and swopping stamps behind Prayer Books; the sound of a rusty pump; the Doctor booming, about immortality and quitting ourselves like men; and
The Waves
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Taoism is a mystic quest for the absolute and for immortality.
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To that one in the solution of which the latter could do nothing but commit paralogisms (namely, that of immortality), because it could not lay hold of the character of permanence, by which to complete the psychological conception of an ultimate subject necessarily ascribed to the soul in self-consciousness, so as to make it the real conception of a substance, a character which practical reason furnishes by the postulate of a duration required for accordance with the moral law in the summum bonum, which is the whole end of practical reason.
The Critique of Practical Reason
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In its fragile immortality, the Ecosphere just sits there.
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The completion of these labors guaranteed his immortality; he was apotheosized at the time of his death and is the only mortal to be honored in this fashion.
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About ten or so years ago the pair of them garnered immortality among guitar toting purveyors of extreme music.
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Corvi-Mora, SE11, Fri to 31 JulSSMurray Ballard's The Prospect Of Immortality is the outcome of five years of photographic investigation into the cryonics industry, the technique of deep-freezing a human corpse in the belief or hope that future scientific advances might enable it to be brought back to life.
This week's new exhibitions
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In other words, people's positive influences remain after they have physically departed; true immortality lies in goodness, or godliness.
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What seems indisputable is that sporting immortality couldn't be bestowed on a more modest or endearing human being.
Times, Sunday Times
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the whole progress and course of evolution is to increase and intensify the Valuable -- that which 'avails' or is serviceable for highest purposes"; and he accordingly defines immortality as the persistence of things which the universe has gained and which, once acquired, cannot be let go.
Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
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Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, she was tyrannized by her own image, driven to new levels of vanity in an endless, and ultimately foolish, pursuit of fame and immortality.
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Choose between smallness and grandeur, between nothingness and immortality, between him and me!
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The precious haoma, the drink of immortality, not only conduced in the case of mankind to eternal life, but was likewise a drink for the gods themselves.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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The coldest-blooded amongst us, Mr. Massingham of _The Nation_ for example, must confess that it was a moment rich in the emotion which bestows immortality on incident when this son of a village schoolmaster, who grew up in a shoemaker's shop, and whose boyish games were played in the street of a Welsh hamlet remote from all the refinements of civilization and all the clangours of industrialism, announced to a breathless Europe without any pomposity of phrase and with but a brief and contemptuous gesture of dismissal the passing away from the world's stage of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns -- those ancient, long glorious, and most puissant houses whose history for an æon was the history of
The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster
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Yet Cocteau made ‘the noblest and most exalted claims’ for poets, and the poet's immortality is very special and real.
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And he could see the lines of the half-miler Benny Vaughn, and Hosford and Atkinson, the whole team, all the lifelines going off in all directions, most of them still moving like his, putting down little tracks toward some unseen goal, some moving target of achievement, some semblance of wealth, some jot of immortality, or perhaps just some measure of repose.
Again to Carthage
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Might some non-bank institutions also gain this sort of immortality?
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Some religions include a doctrine of personal immortality.
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Whether man be the _vibrion_ or the heir to immortality, the bundle of carbon or the care of angels, one fact is indisputable: he suffers agonies, mental and physical, that are wholly out of proportion to the brevity of his life, while he is too often weighted from infancy with hereditary maladies, both of body and of character.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
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Some people want to achieve immortality through their works.
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However, immortality and agelessness continued to be the prerogative of the gods; neither the children of mixed unions, nor mortals who were especially precious to the gods, could share them.
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They believe in the immortality of the soul.
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In that one instant my previous typical young bloke sense of immortality disappeared forever.
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'Twas I that saved her and snatched her from beneath thy sword at the bidding of her father Zeus; for she his child must put on immortality, and take her place with Castor and Polydeuces in the bosom of the sky, a saviour to mariners.
Orestes
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His objective in writing it was to defend the reputation of Dante, who, rather than according immortality to Cassius and Brutus as tyrannicides, had deemed them murderers and relegated them to the lowest circles of the Inferno.
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I would label myself an annihilationist...though I tend to lean more towards something called conditional immortality which posits that humans are mortal beings and God is the only eternal person.
Failing the Fundamentalist Final
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If he fail to do this, the rust of idleness eats into all his powers, till he becomes a useless cumberer of the ground; the world loses, and heaven gains nothing when this mortal puts on immortality.
The Elements of Character
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In this other time beyond all the other times, one finds oneself in the holy mountains; there one can gather healing herbs, magic mushrooms, and elixirs that bring immortality.
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Had the Fall not occurred, says Augustine, “[Adam] would not have been divested of his body, but would have been clothed upon with immortality and incorruption, that ‘mortality might have been swallowed up of life;’ that is, that he might have passed from the natural body into the spiritual body.”
Augustine vs. Pelagius - Part One: Man, the Fall, and Original Sin | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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They set out to find a second youth -- the dream of immortality -- with the astrolabe, which is the creed or Koran all take as their guide.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
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One word authoritatively declaring man's immortality, a word which by infallible token I could know to be a word from the Supreme, would to me be worth infinitely more than all the conjectures, hopes, and reasonings of all the philosophers.
Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra
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But political passion overwhelmed aesthetic concentration, and so, outside Italy at any rate, he has forfeited literary immortality.
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Finally he did achieve a cheap tabloid immortality, but this CD won't raise his status.
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It wouldn't allow Istabraq a place in racing immortality.
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Francil, whom R'shiel had always considered the least corruptible member of the Quorum, had sold out for the promise of immortality.
MEDALON
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Tanacetum vulgare, a herb whose name is supposedly derived by abbreviation from ‘athanasia’, the draught which gave Ganymede immortality.
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She would not mind that the universe was unmoral, that there was no God, no immortality.
CHAPTER XV
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Manchester United's golden partnership is heading for Old Trafford immortality.
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Standing on the 16th tee the Dane needed two birdies over the closing three holes for a round of 62 and immortality.
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He had believed that the assumption of immortality through religion was the apogee of man's greed.
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The death of the body meanwhile is but temporary, and is made no account of by Christ and the apostles. brought ... to light -- making visible by the Gospel what was before hidden in God's purpose. life -- of the Spirit, acting first on the soul here, about to act on the body also at the resurrection. immortality -- Greek, "incorruptibility" of the new life, not merely of the risen body [Alford], (Ro 8: 11). through -- by means of the Gospel, which brings to light the life and immortality purposed by God from eternity, but manifested now first to man by Christ, who in His own resurrection has given the pledge of His people's final triumph over death through Him.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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one could grant to science and history everything they seem to teach regarding the age of the world, the origin of man, the impossibility of miracles, the impossibility of the immortality of the soul, and of the resurrection of the body, the Jahvist, the Elohist, the third Isaah, and so on, without abandoning one iota of the substance of the Jewish faith.
A critique of Himmelfarb's scientific views - The Panda's Thumb
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In theology, the study of "final things, " such as death, resurrection, immortality, the second coming of Christ, and the day of judgment.
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The Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte used the bee as a symbol of immortality and resurrection.
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Before Luke's horrified eyes, Jaid swallowed the immortality draught and, with a shocked gasped, collapsed onto the ground before him, unconscious.
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Or, to be blunt, how to get something named after you.… From anecdotal evidence gathered in From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow and elsewhere, this reviewer suggests the surest route to toponymic immortality is becoming the President of the United States of America.
The Chicago Blog: Review: Monmonier, From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
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For him she begged the gift of immortality from her fellow gods, but neglected to specify eternal youth as well.
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We can get the dikta to move _here_, because we've got the dikta immortality.
A World Out of Time
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It was then possible to leave behind us something more explicit than these severe, monotonous and lying epitaphs; and the thing left, the memory of a painted picture and what we call the immortality of a name, was hardly more desirable than mere oblivion.
Memories and Portraits
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Nanotechnology is central to their vision of a future of agelessness, immortality, and rebirth.
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Lessing here is laying her own claim to immortality through the immutability of her creations.
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But to meet God! And 'tis no sweven, [dream] ne fallacy, this dread undeadliness [immortality] -- it is real.
The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
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For there is but one vineyard, since there is also but one righteousness, and one dispensator, for there is one Spirit of God who arranges all things; and in like manner is there one hire, for they all received a penny each man, having [stamped upon it] the royal image and superscription, the knowledge of the Son of God, which is immortality.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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A short foray into the spotlights, the briefest dance with immortality and then exit stage left in a body bag illuminated by a thousand camera flashlights.
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They also exclude the belief in immortality of the soul and the punishment and rewards of the afterworld.
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The Greeks accepted belief in the immortality of the soul.
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Immortality means belonging to the family of God, the heavenly court.
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“Leaper from the Logan, or Martin Martyr” would have had his name enshrined in young lady sonnets, and azure albums, such immortality had little charms for me.
My Life as an Author
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Yes, my fellow-man! reconstruction, readoption of man's God-like, blood-bought immortality!
National Rectitude the Only True Basis of National Prosperity: An Appeal to the Confederate States
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The Greeks accepted belief in the immortality of the soul.
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Could the title allude, Raveh wonders, to an ink fountain, the means by which Izzy creates her own slice of immortality, the completion of which she leaves to Tom?
A Saturday Afternoon Double Feature
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Both of them made their lasting claims to immortality on this windswept ridge.
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This was a day-trip into the darker corners of immortality and isolation with a slab of comic humour to boot.
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By studying the genetics of aging, scientists are traversing the road to immortality
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And again, in the closing sentences of the monitorial lecture of the Third Degree, the same sentiment is repeated, and we are told that by "the ever green and ever living sprig" the Mason is strengthened "with confidence and composure to look forward to a blessed immortality.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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So, the principle of the sublime depends upon, like Jeanne d' Arc, the sense of a lack of fear of immortality.
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We change our drossy dust for gold, From death to life we fly: We let go shadows, and take hold Of immortality.
The Riches of Bunyan
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Orphism, as the other Hellenistic mystery religions, claimed to teach its adepts the means of securing a blessed immortality.
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However, this first of the Indian sepoy rebels gained an appropriate immortality: the British word for any native mutineer thereafter was "pandy".
Fiancée
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Now, the problem in politics, is, very few politicians have a sense of that kind of personal immortality.
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God; and whoever doubts their certitude, the man who knows himself a son of God by faith, and has experience of forgiveness and guidance and answered prayer and hopes whose 'sweetness yieldeth proof that they were born for immortality,' _knows_ the things which others question and doubt.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
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Instead, she was El-Soo, daughter of Klakee-Nah, a chief, and she lived in the Holy Cross Mission where were no artists, but only pure-souled Sisters who were interested in cleanliness and righteousness and the welfare of the spirit in the land of immortality that lay beyond the skies.
The Wit of Porportuk
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A less driven woman might have been content with such generous helpings of immortality, but she was not that placid woman.
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Shearman has since achieved a kind of Doctor Who immortality by writing last year's episode called Dalek, but he deserves to be remembered as much for his amazing stage plays and radio dramas.
Archive 2006-01-01
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My best friend with Joan of Arc hair and violet eyes was summoned to bed by the man I wanted as we were sitting at the foot of the stairs, talking of immortality and oranges and a certain fairytale fox.
A Scattering of Rivals
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Thus, Robert Browning becomes the hero of the romance of immortality.
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Consequently, as Christ first had grace in His soul with bodily passibility, and through the Passion attained to the glory of immortality, so we likewise, who are His members, are freed by His
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
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To neutralize the risk that these philosophical positions would lead to heterodox beliefs, a decree of the Fifth Lateran Council (Apostolici regiminis, 1513) had made the immortality of the soul a dogma of the Church and had commanded all university professors of philosophy, when lecturing on doctrines that deviated from it, to make every effort to teach the truth of the Christian religion and to refute any philosophical arguments that challenged it.
Pietro Pomponazzi
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Mt 19: 28, "regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory"; the resurrection of our bodies is a kind of coming out of the womb of the earth and entering upon immortality, a nativity into another life [Bishop Pearson].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Island immortality is at stake, and history has proven that anyone can win it: teenage girls, dozing fishermen, complete amateurs.
The Big One by David Kinney: Book summary
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The moby duck has revealed the terrible extent and near immortality of plastic pollution, ground by the seas into tiny particles and now poisoning marine life.
In praise of … Moby-Duck | Editorial
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First found in Chinese alchemical works emphasizing the lengthening of life and the search for immortality, medical alchemy was integrated first into Islamic and then into Western alchemy and medicine.
Alchemy
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As for your views about religion as a control mechanism, on the one hand, you abstract from every real religion Taoism is characterized by many varied superstitions, such as the search for physical immortality, not the empty throne you impute to me, for instance.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
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Though it's easy to ridicule the performance element of these orations, they do act as a focus for the party and from time to time they find a kind of immortality.
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Walt Whitman made extravagant claims to immortality.
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His relationship to it has changed utterly however; now that he's immortal he no longer quite belongs; his immortality is a tear in the fabric, a quirk that indicates a seam.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams
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They have been entertained mostly by the sort of people who think investing in cryonics is a sensible way to achieve immortality.
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Do you believe in the immortality of the soul?
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When those bloody wars in France for matters of religion (saith [6619] Richard Dinoth) were so violently pursued between Huguenots and Papists, there was a company of good fellows laughed them all to scorn, for being such superstitious fools, to lose their wives and fortunes, accounting faith, religion, immortality of the soul, mere fopperies and illusions.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He suffered a knockdown in the eighth, but by the tenth was on the brink of immortality.
Times, Sunday Times
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The amrit that it holds symbolizes the divine consciousness, which is the true source of immortality.
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McGwire has his slice of baseball immortality, but fans haven't lost their appetite for ogling him.
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Immortality, he had learned young on, was something his grandmother would speak about when she told them about elves, trolls, and the imaginary world of fancy.
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A god held up as the august lord of the universe was the pitiful and abject hero of an obscene love affair; the taurobolium, performed to satisfy man's most exalted aspirations for spiritual purification and immortality, looked like a shower bath of blood and recalled cannibalistic orgies.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
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Nevertheless, Rowe has assembled a charming collection of pictures that give photographic immortality to our anonymous Arizona ancestors.
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With a flick of your right joypad, you can jab, hook or uppercut your way to boxing immortality.
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The complete third season is an amazing demonstration to the immortality of this show.
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However, while this view can be accepted in an "inerrant" sense....believing that the texts, in and of themselves, are fully empowered by God to reveal truths about mortality/immortality....they are also fully acceptable in "non-inerrant" views.
The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6
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The unconsecrated dead are recorded on his father's tombstone, and thus given a taste of immortality.
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Some religions include a doctrine of personal immortality.
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They often talk of feelings of quasi immortality through watching their protégés grow and succeed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oh, everyone that thirsteth, do you seek incorruption, do you seek immortality, do you seek eternal life?
Resurrection Sermon
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It rather presents wealth, power and immortality as something which indigenes first had but lost.
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The urge for immortality, too, has often been of the first importance to writers.
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Somewhere between Faust's bartered lease on life and the Count's countless days — between the poet seeking an immortality in phrased voice that he thinks will compensate for his soul's fate and the damned polyglot soul so committed to leaving his body's imprint that poetic justice requires his being hounded down by textual inscription — somewhere between these poles falls the watershed Victorian moment of a long if ultimately posthumous Romanticism.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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If immortality is a problem, it is a self-correcting problem.
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The immortality of books may, from this point of view, need less attention than efforts to contain the costs associated with their immortal accretion.
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Some cell lines, however, achieve what appears to be immortality.
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Such, except where guilt seeks annihilation as the choice of evils, is the unperverted, universal longing after God and immortality.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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At this point, only quarterback Tom Brady appears destined for immortality.
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If my intense desire to see the friend, from whom I have parted, does not bring him from the other side of the world, or take me thither; if the mother's agonised prayer that her child should live has not prevented him from dying; experience certainly affords no presumption that the strong desire to be alive after death, which we call the aspiration after immortality, is any more likely to be gratified.
Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
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The haoma, as the oldest sacrifice, calls for particular mention; manufactured out of the narcotic juice of a certain plant and used as a drink-offering, it was identified with the Deity Himself and given to the faithful as a means of procuring immortality.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Later, in a remarkable and rare testament to sporting immortality, he gave his name to an entire housing development.
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Therefore, the vita activa, which seeks to establish a kind of immortality, ruins any experience of eternity, since the eternal needs absolute quiet that the quest of immortality ruins with its busywork.
The Human Condition, continued
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The most moderate critics of longevity simply worry that immortality would cause massive overpopulation.
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It was in the power of the gods to confer immortality upon mortals.
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Most television actors get one shot at immortality.
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In the iliad's world-view, the hero's greatest hope is not of cultic immortality, but of being remembered in song.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Individual immortality would threaten the species as a whole - almost certainly with fatal results.
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Francil, whom R'shiel had always considered the least corruptible member of the Quorum, had sold out for the promise of immortality.
MEDALON
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There you find those sublime impieties, those admirable lines against Providence and the immortality of the soul, which pass from mouth to mouth, through all after-ages:
A Philosophical Dictionary
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A god held up as the august lord of the universe was the pitiful and abject hero of an obscene love affair; the taurobolium, performed to satisfy man's most exalted aspirations for spiritual purification and immortality, looked like a shower bath of blood and recalled cannibalistic orgies.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
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It is true that original sin hath induced this corruption and incineration upon us; if we had not sinned in Adam, _mortality had not put on immortality_ [366] (as the apostle speaks), nor _corruption had not put on incorruption_, but we had had our transmigration from this to the other world without any mortality, any corruption at all.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
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Shakespeare fixed the idea of fairies, consigning some fairies forever to the dustheap and conferring immortality on his own creations.
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One could venture to explain in this way the myths of paradise and the fall of man, of God, of good and evil, of immortality, and so on, to transform metaphysics into metapsychology.
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No one can write a book aspiring to immortality, for it would then court both ridicule and certain mortality.
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This faith in the survival of personality after death may for the sake of brevity be called a faith in immortality, though the term immortality is not strictly correct, since it seems to imply eternal duration, whereas the idea of eternity is hardly intelligible to many primitive peoples, who nevertheless firmly believe in the continued existence, for
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
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To have your name become a verb is to achieve a certain form of immortality.
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That is to say, Sumerian Utu-zi 'Life-breath of the sun' would have become a partial calque Ut(a)-napishtim which would be reinterpreted by scribes and priests to mean 'he found (uta-) life-breath (napishtim)' (nb. the replacement of Sum. utu 'sun' with Bab. ūta 'found') and thus back into Sumerian with the reformulated Zi-ud-sura 'Life of long days', now implying a character who has found immortality.
Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim
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Unto the first of these, the considerations of the original of the soul, whether it be native or adventive, and how far it is exempted from laws of matter, and of the immortality thereof, and many other points, do appertain: which have been not more laboriously inquired than variously reported; so as the travail therein taken seemeth to have been rather in a maze than in a way.
The Advancement of Learning
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This, I say, is that which makes them sell eternity for a song, give away their souls for a trifle, and turn their backs upon glory and immortality, and God himself, under the pinch of any present pain, or the bewitchery of some present pleasure.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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It was the daring of visionaries that has brought us this far - from gloomy primordial marshes to where we are today - reaching for the galaxies reaching for immortality.
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The fusion of ancient immortals then dutifully turned to the task of easing the transition of those that reached the end of corporeal life and fearfully joined the fusion of immortality.
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What now seems so strange to us is that Pythagoras would not have understood how there could be any distinction between his mathematical ideas and his mystical beliefs about immortality and oneness with the Cosmos.
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As a sample of the religious sentiment of Pindar we give the following fragment of a threnos translated by MR. SYMONDS, which, he says, "sounds like a trumpet blast for immortality, and, trampling underfoot the glories of this world, reveals the gladness of the souls that have attained Elysium:
Mosaics of Grecian History
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The idiot in the unbecoming South Sea island shirt spilled the straightforward chance at immortality and the England opener's confidence swelled almost visibly.
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It is to be found in the homes of people who are nameless and unadvertised, and who, whatever their individual religious conviction, see in their children their greatest contribution to the immortality of the race.
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The intimation of immortality comes from this sense of love for all humanity.
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With the exception of one gentleman citywards, who has achieved an immortality in the article of box-coats, every contriver of men of fashion, we mean in the tailoring, which is the principal department, reside in the parish of St James's, within easy reach of their distinguished patrons.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
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And is there not here the slow procession of birth, decay, and death, in that sublime order of growth which we call immortality?
Under the Trees and Elsewhere
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The deuterocanonical book of Wisdom, for example, perhaps develops a fully fledged doctrine of immortality without reference to a future resurrection of the dead.
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But we, the final arbiters of what qualifies a photograph for immortality, are complicit in this.
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Now the body is "corruptible," the body is "mortal:" so that the body indeed remains, for it is the body which is put on; but its mortality and corruption vanish away, when immortality and incorruption come upon it.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
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Batting towards baseball immortality, Ichiro Suzuki added two more hits last night.
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For if the mind of a dog or chimpanzee contains no element which is immortal, the part of the human mind on which the claim to immortality can be based must be parlously small, since _ex hypothesi_ sensation, volition, desire and the simpler forms of intelligence are not immortal.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
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The institution of the period survey has ensured that this concept remains central to the distribution of cultural credentials, and literary cultivation has frequently been represented as Foucault represents genealogy: as a historical refraction of the self that locates a paradoxical sort of immortality in dispersion.
Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault)
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These crumblies are planning to sue the cityfor immortality.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet
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Unto the first of these, the considerations of the original of the soul, whether it be native or adventive, and how far it is exempted from laws of matter, and of the immortality thereof, and many other points, do appertain: which have been not more laboriously inquired than variously reported; so as the travail therein taken seemeth to have been rather in a maze than in
The Advancement of Learning
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They often talk of feelings of quasi immortality through watching their protégés grow and succeed.
Times, Sunday Times
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If God is outside time, there may also be a secure foundation explaining God's immutability (changelessness), incorruptibility and immortality.
Philosophy of Religion
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Here the delusion of judicial immortality takes its most pathetic form, blind to vanity and vexation of spirit.
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He suffered a knockdown in the eighth, but by the tenth was on the brink of immortality.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a realistic man who harbored no delusions about immortality.
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In alchemy, the production of the Philosopher's Stone that could transmute lead to gold, and confer immortality.
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The leaden poems have won him immortality as the world's worst poet and now he is to be cast in bronze.
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Ossian poems, for instance, embodied readers 'aspirations to a kind of immortality produced not by fame, or the continuity of tradition, but by difference and datedness (Underwood 237-242).
Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault)
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That a Heinlein character is nicknamed “slipstick” for his proficiency with the slide rule is a minor lapse of imagination in a future of moving highways, extraterrestrial colonies, asteroid mining, interstellar travel, near-immortality and other technological marvels.
The Computer I Want for Christmas, and Other Thoughts
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The flame is a quasi-religious emblem of immortality.
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For since we have admitted, as a necessary and self-evident principle, that righteousness is the foundation of immortality, and Scripture presents to us in Abel an instance of the attainment of righteousness by faith, it follows that _faith is a means of partaking of immortality_.
An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality
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Traditions has it that this fount is the fons juventutis whose waters can be equated with the 'draught of immortality' -- amrita in Hindu mythology.
The Annotated "Ripple"
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In short, in every case of literary immortality there is present originative personality.
How Books Become Immortal
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What seems indisputable is that sporting immortality couldn't be bestowed on a more modest or endearing human being.
Times, Sunday Times
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From this Stratfordian retreat of an Old World cottage I would penetrate New World perfidies of expendable media personalities, crime new and old under the sun, the fate of lost body doubles, and the world wide web of crime and extortion and immortality that made modern Las Vegas all things extravagant and evil.
Dancing with Werewolves
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Every time one of her grandkids goes fishing and baits a hook the way Grandma taught them to do, her immortality is assured.
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Lily found the idea of a cherubic host absurd, yet she allowed herself to be suffused with the idea of immortality.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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A young man's quest for immortality takes a dark and dangerous turn in one of the most terrifying gothic horror stories, but if the name Dorian Gray doesn't ring a bell, there's one comic you must experience this December --
Playback:stl Syndication
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Stoics sought to free themselves from bodily concerns by philosophical contemplation, while some Christians found value in mortifying the flesh, thereby turning their thoughts to the immortality of the soul.
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Public [= o] la, as we saw, damned one poor man to a wretched immortality, and another was called pitilessly over the coals, because he had mixed a grain of flattery with a bushel of truth.
Thackeray
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Yet some try hard for a small fragment of immortality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some developments in biomedical research relevant to pro - longevity are: “immortality” of tissue cultures, prolon - gation of life by underfeeding or cooling, studies of atherosclerosis, isolation of “status quo” hormones, discovery of protective action of glycerol and dimethyl sulphoxide in freezing (the “cryonics” movement and the first interment at ultra-low temperature in 1967).
LONGEVITY
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Vampires are famous not only for coffin cribs and an affinity for sanguinary necks, but also for their hard-earned immortality.
8 Fictional Vampires Who Achieved Reel Immortality | Fandomania
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Seen from a view of posterity, her "boring" job was to provide Julia Child with the discipline, the autonomous organizational skill, the patience to devise, test and perfect the recipes in her encyclopedic chef-d'oeuvre: "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" (1961, 1970), on which her immortality can be said to rest.
Julia Child: The OSS Years
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It was in the power of the gods to confer immortality upon mortals.
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Adam was promised immortality in exchange for his disobedience