animality

Example Sentences

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The film, a Times critic’s pick, is a “wild, boldly expressionistic movie” that conveys his animality and un-knowableness.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 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

Just as personality captures so many interesting components of what makes humans human, animality does likewise for other species.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013

All bodies are composed of similar atoms, which differ only in accidents; and animality and humanity and sensation and reason are all accidents.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac