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
The potter’s clay has been tested in England, and found to be very good.
From Handbook to the new Gold-fields by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Can you expect, by a system like this, to mould the human mind as you would mould potter's clay?
From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.
It lies at an elevation of about 1030 ft. above sea-level, in a wheat-growing region, in which bituminous coal, limestone, and brick and potter’s clay abound.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
