homunculi

• “They could speak, sing, read, write, work, love and die; but they were not covered by human law, which simply defined them as "homunculi" and gave them a legal status close to animals or robots.”

  Science Fiction Hall of Fame

• “Underpeople, the animal-derived "homunculi," were there, most of them in their work clothes, and they looked more human than did the human beings from the outer worlds.”

  Science Fiction Hall of Fame

• “This extravagance is also very pronounced in the alchemistic works attributed to him; for example, the belief in the artificial creation of minute living creatures resembling men (called "homunculi") -- a belief of the utmost absurdity, if we are to understand it literally.”

  Alchemy: Ancient and Modern

• “Hmm. The Mill wonders which way the beardy Yank fiscal homunculi are going to go on this one.”

  The Guardian: Football transfer rumours: Glen Johnson to Juventus?

• “If I had a womb I would populate them with homunculi, with replicas and simulacra.”

  Fictionaut: Architecture

• “As opposed to the kind of Americans who tend to squat like vampiric fiscal homunculi on the neck of their floundering, whinnying prey.”

  The Guardian: Wayne Rooney, Americans and the terrible burden of ambition

• “The word "signals" jumps out: Elsewhere the author criticizes the homunculi little men, making quite difficult determinations, that pervade putative neuroscientific accounts of the mind; there is more than a hint of a homunculus in the notion of neurons that "signal" to one another.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Rethinking Thinking

• “The ensuing events leads him into contact with the others of his kind, homunculi built around elements of the human spirit: 1 - the High Priest and Authority, 2 - the Engineer, 3 & 4 - the twin keepers of Lore, 5 - the Tinkerer and Gentle Spirit, 6 - the Mystic, 7 - the Warrior, and 8 - Brute Force.”

  “9″ is a runaway 10. A wonderful movie– see on the big screen « Third Point of Singularity

• “According to Griffin and his monobrowed army of homunculi, Black and Asian Britons 'don't exist'.”

  Archive 2009-04-01

• “Since it had become commonplace on the broadbands of our nation to feature talk show hosts with cleft palates, homunculi, or other disfigurements, and since the advent of so-called reality telethons featuring learning-disabled persons (a rapidly growing demographic sector of the populace), it was only a matter of time before a professional sport became interested in a more democratic conception of the human physique.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'The Four Fingers of Death'

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