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
Again, as with the orangutans, animality type mattered.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
The mythological “solutions” are those which start with the monstrous conception according to which human beings have no proper place in nature but are mixtures of natural and supernatural—unions or combinations of animality and divinity.
From Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski
Dugatkin writes about how studying animalities can help us understand the costs and benefits associated with certain animal temperaments.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2013
Animal behaviorist Jaap Koolhaas has found two coping styles in these animals—which amount to two different animalities, labeled proactive and reactive.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
Researchers have selectively bred even more dramatically proactive and even more dramatically reactive mice, establishing a genetic underpinning to animalities.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
But it’s not just our ape kin that have 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
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