animality

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Skolimowski, by contrast, consistently emphasizes the animality of EO and, by extension, the donkey’s essential un-knowableness and mystery.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 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

I had rather see you stand on a pedestal, and hear you shout, exaggerating your misdeeds, overstraining your cruelty, your vices, your animality: "Yes, we are Barbarians! and then?"

From Six Women and the Invasion by Yerta, Gabrielle