animality
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The movement for “Afternoon of a Faun” alludes to the two-dimensional choreography of Nijinsky’s dance to that Debussy piece, a nod to a predecessor of Naharin’s stylized animality.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
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
Much of how these animals handle stress in their world is determined by their animality.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2013
It consists precisely in the progressive negation of the primitive animality of man by the development of his humanity.
From God and the State by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
Dugatkin writes about how studying animalities can help us understand the costs and benefits associated with certain animal temperaments.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2013
I’m not sure we should be eating them either, but I am sure we should be studying them and other animals, and that we should be learning what we can about animalities.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 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
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
