potter's clay
Example Sentences
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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 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
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
Mansell was as potter's clay in this man's hands.
From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Cullum, Ridgwell
