animality
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Skolimowski, by contrast, consistently emphasizes the animality of EO and, by extension, the donkey’s essential un-knowableness and mystery.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 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
It’s the particular triumph of his animal characters, however, that they never become merely allegorical—or rather, they become allegorical while retaining their singularity and animality.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2014
And, when his animality becomes established, he exhibits the fundamental anatomical qualities which characterise such lowly animals as the jelly-fish.
From The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution by George John Romanes
Of late, evolutionary behaviorists have turned to studying animalities.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
But it’s not just our ape kin that have animalities.
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
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
Mr. Weiss is more daring, and proclaims a God who arranges creation as it is, and an immortality that drops what to most people constitutes their highly valued possessions—namely, their "animalities" of various kinds.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
