How To Use Animality In A Sentence
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In a world that can sometimes be disgusting, we evolved an upper tier of emotional longing -- the aspiration for purity -- to keep us balanced in this satyricon of carnal delights where animality beckons and frequently wins.
Mark Matousek: Why We Don't Need God to Be Good (and What Religious Folk Don't Want You to Know)
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Clearly, de Blainville's language echoes through this passage framing the scientists' concerns about human animality and sexuality.
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The rage that people feel against their own mortality and animality is often enacted toward them, whether by humiliation or, in addition, by physical violence.
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Where there is triviality, there is sin and animality.
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More generally, animality stands in for all that is repressed by culture, as exemplified by Albee's earlier animal play, The Zoo Story.
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If our creeds are an expression of our animality, if they require an explanation from natural science, then we have not transcended our genetic imperatives.
Spelling it out ...
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It threatens subjectivity by collapsing meaning, reminding us of the subject's necessary relation to death, corporeality, animality and maternal materiality.
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She was not frightened, but appalled, rather, at the human animality of it.
Chapter 25
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In what may be a gesture of ironical respect to animals, however, the Speaker refrains from explaining human behaviour on the basis of its so-called animality.
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The God, one supposes, didn't "become flesh" in order to extricate our human persons from our bodies, but to infuse (maybe to re-infuse) our mere animality with life-bearing spirit.
Scott Cairns: Art and the Meaning of Creation
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He quotes Heidegger saying (p17), "human analysis practically runs out of alternatives when it rejects mechanistic views of animality."
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All my days had been passed in comparative ignorance of the animality of man.
Chapter 12
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The blurred surfaces it illuminates are those where nature, animality, and humanity converge in thought and world.
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A series of fascinating tales of animality image agree with the need of the motive of represent and opening up.
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They desperately try to contain the madness, bitterness and growing animality that are overtaking them by faithfully noting their physical co-ordinates and recording their days in journals and logs.
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The production, unlike those which have chosen to stress Caliban's deformity or animality, chose rather to emphasise his humanity.
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While coming home from fishing one night, the narrator was suddenly overwhelmed by a sense of rank, primitive animality, a feeling of wildness.
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Animality is always the lack of a human quality.
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People tend to project disgust properties onto groups of people in their own society who come to figure as surrogates for people's anxieties about their own animality.
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There is something unhuman about the despair of such minimal techno and at the same time something completely at the limit of our rationality, at the touch of our animality and at what makes us the human animal.
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For not only must the common nature attach to the different things, e.g. not only must both be animals, but this very animality must also be different for each (e.g. in the one case equinity, in the other humanity), and so this common nature is specifically different for each from what it is for the other.
Metaphysics
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Because humans are aware that animals are mortal, being reminded of our animality provokes this paralyzing anxiety.
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Man, according to the old scholastic definition, is "a rational animal" (_animal rationale_), and his animality is distinct in nature from his rationality, though inseparably joined, during life, in one common personality.
On the Genesis of Species
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Other artists can do the muscles and monsters but none capture the physical presence and brute animality of Howard's characters the way Frazetta does.
MIND MELD: The Most Memorable SF/F Book Covers
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It's sexy and dark, with a lingering floral overtone and a subtle animality that will undoubtedly prompt people to ask "Mmm, what are you wearing?
All I Want for Christmas...
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Scientists, philosophers and quite a few toilers in the humanities believe—and would have the rest of us believe—that nothing fundamental separates humanity from animality.
Rethinking Thinking
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Le Pont de l'Arc-en-ciel = The Rainbow Bridge (fictional place over which animals go after death); le petit animal à moustaches = the little whiskered animal (the cat); l'animalité (f) = animality; le partage (m) = sharing.
Guetter - French Word-A-Day
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There is a tremendous emphasis on carnality, even animality, from the outset of play.
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Such things are no doubt very excellent, but they do not promote intensity of feeling, fervour of mind; and as art is in itself an outcry against the animality of human existence, it would be well that the life of the artist should be a practical protest against the so-called decencies of life; and he can best protest by frequenting a tavern and cutting his club.
Confessions of a Young Man
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Crime were rooted in the animality of human nature, that is human instinct.sentence dictionary
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It is in the nature of our animality - our sense organs and perceptual apparatus - that a true apprehension of flux, of living with the chaotic, is impossible.
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Since the excess of animality and the accumulation and abundance of its stratas have their origin in food, drink and indulgence in carnal pleasures, a fast accomplishes what abundant food cannot.
