At death, the animating soul ceases to vivify the body, but numerically the same body remains, and the form of the body keeps the matter organized, at least for a while.
Creatures were animated by souls of greater or lesser degree – that, and a magical entity called pneuma.
"She's an earth mother, a spiritual, animated, loving soul — it didn't have to be faked".
We inherited this treasure, and let's pray that we will find a way to re-animate the soul of this great nation by coming together under the flag of American exceptionalism.
Of course, the most radical experiment with family, compact cameras and film festivals might be director Cory McAbee's film Crazy and Thief, his attempt to capture an honest portrait of those earliest, hazy days of childhood that you quickly forget but remain as primordial memories animating your soul.
He sees the science of psychology as concerned not with some quidditative concept of the soul arrived at by a priori reasoning, but with specifying the relation between animate qualities and the soul as their proper subject: "the natural philosopher only studies substances in relation to their motion and operations.
But maybe the huge proportions of that glacial exoskeleton of a room were always going to be difficult to animate with heart and soul.
Drawing on a fabulist tradition running from Yiddish theatre via Kafka to Woody Allen, it used a series of farcical inversions – a rabbi employed as a Santa; a Park Avenue Wasp who suddenly finds himself "the bearer of a Jewish soul" – to animate its portrayal of a world that hadn't had much attention in fiction since the stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Because it's the very same soul animating my body, or what have you.
That animating spirit, that soul, is alive in "Duplex," a story that is almost impossible to summarize without damaging the experience.
In the Treatise on Sensations (1754) Condillac imagined a statue organized inwardly like a man but animated by a soul that had never received an idea or a sense impression.
