Sentence examples for animate beings from inspiring English sources

Considered in Russian folklore to be animate beings, bells exercise a profound power over humankind — a power that lay dead or dormant for most of the twentieth century.

Considered in Russian folklore to be animate beings, bells exercise a profound power over humankind a power that lay dead or dormant for most of the twentieth century.

"We were quite encouraged by these results and we wanted to take it to the next level to check if people could take the perspective of, not just other people, but also other animate beings, including animals," Ahn explained.

Schlange (2009) suggests that stakeholders need not be limited to individuals or groups of individuals but that they may also be inanimate objects (such as the earth) or animate beings such as animals.

We are beings that can enter into dialogic relations not just with human others but with other animate beings, such as animals, or a tree, as well as with the Divine Thou.

On the other hand as we descend the triangle, the soft concept of "social" is intensified and could include the other animate beings such as animals and plants or entities which contribute to the ecologies such as earth and its preservation; therefore any movement towards the facilitation and improvement of these entities could also count as "social" concept in its extended meaning.

For Freud, the uncanny (unheimlich or unhomely) is a doubt as to 'whether an apparently animate being is really alive; or, conversely, whether a lifeless object might be in fact animate'.

Therefore the claim that, "All SE begets social innovations (SE→SI)" is falsifiable or refutable on the ground that there is SE in the real world which makes environmental, ecological, preservative, and some other animate being-oriented innovations.

And you can't get much more mind-bending than Calvino's Cosmicomics and his narrator "old Qfwfq", an animated being as old as the universe.

The concept of qì or ch'i, the inner energy or "life force" that is said to animate living beings, is encountered in almost all styles of Chinese martial arts.

For example, such tricksters are often incapable of animating the beings that they have molded and must therefore request the help of the supreme being in bringing them to life.