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
Her father, with the instinct of an artist, observes the outline and fills it in with potter's clay, and then bakes the model which he has obtained.
From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell
But unless the education of the future citizen is complete and symmetrical, the body politic becomes a body partly of iron and partly of potter's clay.
From The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Flickinger, Robert Elliott
Coal, though found in Finist�re, is not mined; there are quarries of granite, slate, potter’s clay, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
