Sentence examples for as animate from inspiring English sources

That is both typical of the eerily lovely tableaux Logan (pictured) routinely conjures up, and about as animate as the bear ever becomes.

He saw sheep as animate stones, the makers of their own landscape.

Ms. Grajales does not decorate a room so much as animate it.

"I ALWAYS think of art as animate objects with their own little lives and personalities," said John Waters, the filmmaker known for ignoring the boundaries of good taste and bad in movies like "Pink Flamingos" and "Hairspray".

Inside the closet -- "my wardrobe," as Ms. Winkler describes it -- in neat rows from wall to wall and floor to ceiling, are a staggered chorus line of gauzy, spangled leotards, slinky jersey skirts slashed to the thigh, and slyly arched and sequined tango heels, each piece as animate and sensual as the dance they were made for.

The robot demonstrated robust recognition of its mirror image, while classifying the nearby experimenter as "animate other", across 20 experiments.

It was as animated as he got all afternoon.

Even midweek, the atmosphere was as animated as it was on a Saturday night.

Unfortunately, he sounded about as animated as a traffic cop handing out a ticket.

Today, he was as animated as always during his 6-4, 7-5, 6-1 victoverover Jonas Bjorkman.

Then she said, as animated as the host of "Blues Clues": "Good job for you!