So she imagined they were putting into him a sort of liquid mortal sadness, a corrective against a dangerous abundance of faerie joy.
It seems that even intelligent Greeks failed to realise this was a secular not a religious ritual and interpreted it as hubris: treating a mortal man as if he were a god.
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But it could deal a mortal blow to Mr Blair's project to form a progressive anti-Conservative coalition at national level with the Liberal Democrats, and to portray the Scottish coalition as a shining precursor.
As a result, his career ultimately suffered a mortal blow, not to mention the damage he caused shareholders, who watched their stock drop as a result of his inexperience.
Personally, I have trouble seeing any profession with plenty of creature comforts, a lack of physical danger or mortal consequence, and a handsome paycheck as worthy of inclusion on this list.
Last year he composed music for a videogame, Mortal Kombat, and this year for a film, Wreck-It Ralph.
Former Conservative defence minister Michael Portillo said he feared Nato had been "dealt a mortal blow".
If the charges against Gupta prove true, it could be a mortal threat to the firm.
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Meantime, Abaxis found itself engaged in a mortal struggle with Idexx Laboratories of Westbrook, Me.
What remains to be seen is whether he has inflicted a mortal wound on himself.
Publishers have another recently converted ally: Google, which not long ago they saw as a mortal threat.
Too many are now afraid they'll be accused of being "judgmental, " the secular equivalent of a mortal sin.
These firms pose a mortal threat to sole practitioners, not to Big Law.
In the new era of a mortal Apple, people like me have to live with scrambled eggs for content.
CarMax and AutoNation engaged in a mortal expansion battle in the late 1990s.
They are willing to do almost anything to destroy vouchers, which they regard as a mortal threat to their well-being.
Many of our forests have also been hit by disease and insect infestation that pose a mortal threat to their future.
Perhaps this is because he is a mortal man yet manages to survive perilous falls and brutal beatings without suffering lasting effects.
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Western culture faced a mortal threat three times during the 20th century.
Just regular, mortal you against a brightly-garbed warrior who has super-strength, can fly, is faster than a speeding bullet, and has only one weakness.
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During my first reading of "Robinson Crusoe" as a child, I knew that I wasn't meeting an action figure, but a mortal touched by the prosaic realities of the sickbed.
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Louis, passing visibly above downtown Newark at precisely the moment she comes to realize that, in a feat no less triumphant for a mortal than Lindbergh's, she has conceived Sanford Roth.
By abandoning their realist tradition of national defense and martial preparedness, the Europeans allowed a mortal threat to metastasize and grow, instead of striking it at early and preventing it from taking shape.
Twilight, the story of a passionate romance between a mortal girl and an enigmatic vampire, is also nominated for best female for star Kristen Stewart, best fight and best song - for Paramore's Decode.
We saw perfectly fine companies, such as Applied Materials, an arms supplier to the Web, suffer share price skids of 40%, even though any chowderhead could tell you that demand for chips is a mortal lock to quadruple over the next five years.
Canon Chancellor David Monteith said it was important to remember that as well as being the subject of important historical and scientific research, the skeleton also represented "the mortal remains of a person, an annointed Christian king, " and as such should be treated with dignity.
Still, what is a mere mortal to do in the face of seven weddings?
Perhaps the only giveaway that Watson was not a mere mortal, other than its insane speed, accuracy, and glowing LCD screen?
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If the Supreme Courts decides in favor of the EPA on the merits of the case, the states' movement to regulate carbon dioxide will be dealt a likely mortal blow.
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