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Well might Catherine deem that heaven would be a land of exile to her, unless with her mortal body she cast away her moral character also.

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The idea of an undying quality to life is implicit in the concept of the king's two bodies, specifically in the manner by which the sovereign unifies in one mortal body a continuum of political presence that persists uninterruptedly, undisturbed by human fmitude.

Transfusions of Sovereignty: Buchners Dantons Tod, Political Theology, and the Afterlife of Language

Her criticism covers a meteorological reading, the storm's three ambiguities, and cataclysmic shame: three views of Lear's mortal body in the storm.

This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical and Performance History of King Lear

Just before Mr Jobs left his mortal body towards the realm of the spirits, his sister had described the only word that he whispered in utter amazement at what he saw before his eyes in the distance - wow - .

iPhone at 10: why do we miss its legendary visionary so badly?

The mortal Apollo still has the mind of a god and therefore thinks he still has godly powers, but of course his mortal body will not allow that, and the author very skilfully and often hilariously interweaves these two strands into a compelling narrative.

Riordan, Rick: The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo)

Remarkably, it is not these incisions in the mortal body that linger in one's mind long after the show, but the acrid smell of burnt flesh emanating from them.

Jeram Patel: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

Then with my eyes, with all the senses of my living mortal body, I look at 'it'--'it'--and savour the beauty of its being.

The Shadow of the Hummingbird

At the same time she considers how the play engages with contemporary ideas that did not completely discount the connection between the mortal body and a spirit who may retain some interest in the body after death.

Sarah E. Johnson. Staging Women and the Soul-Body Dynamic in Early Modern England

In the mid-season finale episode titled "The Map of Moments," the viewers saw Rebekah Mikaelson (Claire Holt) got transferred into a vulnerable and mortal body that is trapped in an old mansion that became a place for witches believed to be insane.

'The Originals' Season 2 Spoilers: EP Michael Narducci Teases Rebekah's Safety To Be The Primary Concern, 'Find And Rescue Rebekah' Mission To Develop In 2015

By linking an ideal of the physical body to a primitive timepiece steadily spilling its sand in a show of impermanence, the hourglass metaphor invokes the origin of universal human tragedy: the dependency of the ideal aspirations of the mind on the ephemerality of a mortal body.

Impermanence embodied: Jenny Swanson

The final step in the process of reduction is Unicorn's complete alteration: Schmendrick commits one of the most horrible deeds in the entire book--he traps an immortal soul in a mortal body.

Peter S. Beaqle's transformations of the mythic unicorn

According to Hindu mythology, it is believed that when humans die, their mortal body turns to dust.