Augustine portrayed the human being as a creature born to oscillate between inwardness and outwardness.
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But we have also learned that technology, as a creature of man, is as problematical, as ambivalent and as capable of good or evil as its creator.
The New York City Is Not For Sale ad attacks Ms. Quinn from the left, depicting her as a creature of a smoke-filled room who, among other things, supported Mayor Michael Bloomberg's effort to seek a third term and opposed until recently a requirement that employers in the city offer workers paid time off when they are sick.
Without countless such confrontations -- large and small -- over "a woman's place" throughout our history, the ranks of women in executive suites, the U.S. Congress, courtrooms, surgical theaters, the military, and many other places in society would still be close to zero, and the idea of a female president would be as alien as a creature from Mars.
The once-revered wolf (again, think of Okami here) lost its status as a holy creature and became little more than a pest to ranchers, to be hunted and killed.
Mr Carter (to whom Mr Dean talks regularly) seized the White House by presenting himself as a very different creature from the hapless president he later became.
Any trait or organ may therefore be something of a botch, from the perspective of natural selection, even if the creature as a whole was the best job that could be done in the circumstances.
Sophisticates and Wall Street's quantitative wizards hate the notion, but the stock market is a psychological creature driven as much by a manic-depressive pathology as it is by corporate earnings and economic indicators.
Sophisticates and Wall Streets' quantitative wizards hate the notion, but the stock market is a psychological creature driven as much by a manic depressive pathology as it is by corporate earnings and economic indicators.
He also was behind "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, " where a one-eyed centaur battles a part-lion, part-eagle creature known as a griffin.
In Spore, players start as a single-celled organism and evolve into a swimming or walking creature that mates, becomes a village and, eventually, ends up as a planet.
But London Zoo officials later identified the creature as a North American Jungle Cat after a plaster cast was taken from paw prints made in a forest near Port Talbot.
Dibinga treated his search as a safari of sorts, looking for an elusive creature, in a very creative video.
They look as a cross between a snake and a frog and some alien creature.
In scientific terms, probably the most significant effect of the Sea Empress spill has been felt by a tiny creature known as the brooding cushion-star, or Asterina phylactica to those in the know.
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And recent computed tomography (CT) scans of the thighbone of a six-million-year-old Kenyan creature known as Orrorin tugenensis suggest it might have had quite a human gait.
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And the piccolo trumpet soars like a prehistoric flying creature, as my present experiences meld into my imagined ones, all in just the first three minutes of the music.
Boarding is marketed as a lifestyle choice, and schools now have to provide a range of activities, amenities and creature comforts undreamed of by previous generations.
This would have acted as a counterweight, switching from side to side as the creature ran with its head down and its body almost horizontal to the ground.
The Hayachine Kagura is a series of masked dances accompanied by drum, cymbals and flute: six ritual dances begin the performance, five dances recount stories of the deities and medieval Japanese history, and a final dance features a performer dressed as a "shishi, " an imaginary lion-like creature representing the Hayachine deity himself.
They also want to include specialized tissue, so that the creature can activate the muscular contractions internally, as a real jellyfish does.
The pile of inert wealth draws to it a creature even more greedy than the dwarves, as such a pile inevitably does.
He opened the coop and stuck his hand in toward the fierce creature inside, eyes yellow, beak sharp as a cat's claw, trilling a warning so low it was almost a growl.
The Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton, once a creature of the left, has tried to remake herself as a centrist (she did strikingly well among conservative New Yorkers when she was re-elected to the Senate in November).
She said the creature was probably quite young as it was only just bigger than a 50 pence piece.
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The creature was evolved in a genetic algorithm using genetic programming trees as the control systems to manipulate servo motors at each body joint.
His great strength is that he can speak from a position of authority, being that rare creature who has found success both as an intelligence agent and as the operator of an enduring business.
As for the risen Lazarus, Mary sees in the "miracle" just a sad, whimpering creature who can eat only bread soaked in water and shuffle sadly.
Sam Worthington, as the mighty Perseus (otherwise known as the dude who slayed the Kraken), takes on a two-headed griffin-like creature that trashes a village with its incendiary breath.
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