animality
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“Wolf Play” suggests there’s an animality connecting us that transcends gendered social scripts; kinship and love are wild and don’t play by any rules.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
He believed “a being who is ashamed of his animality in that very fact proves himself to be more than a mere animal”.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2019
He thinks that personhood is a form of self-imposed dullness and yearns for the vivid openness of animality.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016
It’s the particular triumph of his animal characters, however, that they never become merely allegorical—or rather, they become allegorical while retaining their singularity and animality.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2014
The animality of average humanity made for hope rather than for despair, when one remembered from what it had developed.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
I’m not sure we should be eating them either, but I am sure we should be studying them and other animals, and that we should be learning what we can about animalities.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
Of late, evolutionary behaviorists have turned to studying animalities.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
Animal behaviorist Jaap Koolhaas has found two coping styles in these animals—which amount to two different animalities, labeled proactive and reactive.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
But it’s not just our ape kin that have animalities.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
Mr. Weiss is more daring, and proclaims a God who arranges creation as it is, and an immortality that drops what to most people constitutes their highly valued possessions—namely, their "animalities" of various kinds.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
