animality
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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
They found that if you’re an orangutan, at least an orangutan living in a zoo, you have basically one of two animality types.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
I had always felt that and of course this theory appealed to Dee, who thought much worse of humanity than animality, as she called it.
From Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
Dugatkin writes about how studying animalities can help us understand the costs and benefits associated with certain animal temperaments.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2013
Studying animalities is a powerful way to increase our understanding of how natural selection has shaped the bewildering and beautiful diversity of life we see around us.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
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
Here is one who spends his working hours creating something that seems strange and disquieting and ugly, and devotes his leisure to simple animalities; surely one so utterly unlike ourselves cannot be an artist?
From Art by Clive Bell
