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
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
Much of how these animals handle stress in their world is determined by their animality.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013
But he traversed distances before he finally found himself a field in which stirred and struggled all human animality.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James