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

Just as personality captures so many interesting components of what makes humans human, animality does likewise for other species.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013

He is formed for an intellectual and moral being, with no more of animality in his constitution, than is necessary to give him practical energy of character.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander