Sentence examples for animate things from inspiring English sources
So we will animate things, bring people and objects to life.
In this, Milton builds on a philosophy called Vitalism, which holds that all animate things — including plants and insubstantial beings, like angels — are made from "thinking matter".
For animate things the word form of the object is identical to the genitive case form, while for inanimate things the nominative case form should be used.
The Stranger then divides this latter kind into those who generate and rear single animate things (ox-drivers and grooms are here), and those who generate and rear them in herds (the statesman and herdsman are here) (Statesman 261d).
First the visitor retraces his steps and points out that in speaking of rearing animate things, he and Young Socrates had already in effect divided living creatures into wild and tame (Statesman 264a).
At the next division one kind passes on its own directions to generate inanimate things (the master-builder belongs here), while the other does so to generate animate things (the statesman belongs here) (Statesman 261b d).
Both were very formal artists who liked letting go, loved accident, loved spontaneity and loved animating thing.
The question is, while they can easily animate many things — bodies, hands — they were hitting a wall with faces.
Judgments about personalities and social traits can be made by relatively brief exposure to animate living things.
According to the artist, the installation is meant to present a growing awareness of the spirits that animate all things in nature.
