A tranquil death, which a hospice helps make possible, requires that attention be paid to peace of mind as well as bodily comfort.
But unhappy thoughts often serve the same purpose as bodily pain, alerting us to problems that need to be resolved before they get worse.
Towers as pink and moist as bodily organs rise above the nude revellers, as they ride unicorns and camels bareback, swim with mermaids or crawl inside an egg.
The liturgy includes a variety of models, or symbols, using formal theological statements as well as bodily perceptions and gestures (e.g., music, incense, prostrations) and the visual arts.
I can't now remember the saintly name of it, even the town's name escapes me, this was a moment of such stressful fatedness that the surroundings remain in my mind only as bodily impressions.
The Churchlands like to try, as far as possible, not only to believe that they themselves are thoroughly physical creatures but also to feel it — to experience their thoughts as bodily sensations.
It is now a very hot concept in biology because, thanks to the complete genetic sequencing of a fast-growing number of creatures we can now see how genes as well as bodily organs are put to new uses.
Few, though, have attempted to define that concept quite as broadly — or as bodily — as the New Museum, which is mounting a career survey of the Belgian-born artist Carsten Höller that opens on Wednesday.
Central to vampire myth, however, is the consumption of human blood or other essence (such as bodily fluids or psychic energy), followed closely by the possession of sharp teeth or fangs with which to facilitate this task.
After much deliberation, it concluded that a circumcision, "even when done properly by a doctor with the permission of the parents, should be considered as bodily harm if it is carried out on a boy unable to give his own consent".
Just as bodily health was said to rely on a sound physical constitution and a balanced diet and way of life, so the health of the polity depended on a sound constitution that achieved a "natural" balance between the various organs and "humors" of the political body.
