'If you mean human beings are never straightforward, well, yes,' I said.

Divine judgment means the judgment of God or other supreme beings within a religion.

In the best case scenario, the "greatest possible number of individuals" would mean 'all' sentient beings.

Another value of mosquitoes, perverse to some, obvious to others, is that they "keep out the riffraff," meaning human beings.

It meant beings that climbed and walked like humans.

Here it means human beings, like you and me.

Core says it's the way we were really meant to be: freely sexual beings.

The research had gone as far as it could without real test data, which meant actual human beings.

"We" here meaning human beings, both individually and in cheering, bloodthirsty crowds.

Asura means supernatural beings that were good or bad.