potter's clay
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Nietzsche was the Marx of the right, the original culture warrior who believed that the future belongs to those with the courage to face the nihilism of the present and mold it like potter’s clay.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018
Fresh masa has a thicker consistency, more like potter’s clay, and it smells like slightly fermented corn syrup, especially if it sits out for 24 hours before you use it.
From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2015
Argil, �r′jil, n. potter's clay: pure clay or alumina.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The first of these I shall call generally, henceforward, the school of crystal; the other that of clay: potter's clay, or human, are too sorrowfully the same, as far as art is concerned.
From Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 by Ruskin, John
From thence he had fallen, and as the idol lay broken she had seen that what she thought sterling gold was but miserable potter’s clay.
From The Vicar's People by Fenn, George Manville
