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

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

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

When his animality becomes established, he exhibits the fundamental anatomical qualities which characterize such lowly animals as polyps and jelly-fish.

From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by Romanes, George John