The ritual act itself, in the earliest systems, is powerful, in a sort magical, but tends to lose this character and take on the forms of ordinary human intercourse.
The ghastly moral wreck of ordinary human nature, in which not a single germ of virtuous impulse seemed to have survived the ruin, left apparently no hope of rescue or escape.
But not less degrading were the outrages to Roman, or ordinary human dignity to which the noble order had to submit for more than a generation.
He has seen a single lawless will, unchecked by constitutional restraints or ordinary human feeling, making sport of the lives and fortunes of men.
The institution of slavery, which involves the denial of ordinary human rights to masses of fellow-creatures, had its usual effect in rendering men contemptuously callous to the fate of all who did not belong to the privileged class.
Their ingenuity would have been but little worthy of commendation had they been content to appear as ordinary human beings, or animals, or even in fancy costume.
It differs from that of Jesus Christ in being that of a purely human character, possessed of many of the virtues and not a few of the frailties of ordinary human nature.
It would be absurd in speaking of an ordinary human birth to say that the person born was descended from his ancestors, "according to the flesh.
The documents that testify to his acts and teachings we shall treat as ordinary human documents.
Central Africa, from the Upper Nile, was then a vast forest, impenetrable to ordinary human life, a forest of which the Congo forests of to-day are the last shrunken remains.
It takes twenty years or more before an ordinary human being in western Europe grows up and reproduces.
And even this final antagonism relates rather to theory and method than to practical results: practical conflict, in ordinary human minds, is mainly between Self-interest and Social Duty however determined.
My hope is that she will get to dislike that as much as she does nursing and apothecary work, and to find out that her real duty is to live like an ordinary human being, and so make herself and other people truly happy.
When I say I was to learn what she was, perhaps I err; more correctly I was to learn what she was not, namely, an ordinary human being.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordinary human" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.