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

Bacon, an avowed atheist, shows human life as pure animality.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 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

Again, as with the orangutans, animality type mattered.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013

He that touches the hem of Christ's robe and masters his mortal beliefs, animality, and hate, rejoices in the proof of healing,—in a sweet and certain sense that God is Love.

From Pulpit and Press by Eddy, Mary Baker