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
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
Much of how these animals handle stress in their world is determined by their animality.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013
They all tried to unedge that animality by treating it as a joke, by confronting it with their conspiracies of jocularity.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
