Sentence examples for bodily attributes from inspiring English sources

To view its swollen bodily attributes as appealing to a primeval drive to procreativity is simply to state the obvious.

This book's popularity has more to do with its bathroom jokes, advice about sex ("What is a hickey?") and attention to little-discussed bodily attributes, like ear hair.

We're not talking about your run-of-the-mill sexy housewife looks, either, the kind that push bodily attributes rather than fashion boundaries.

Passing involves multiple dimensions of context, perception and bodily attributes that exist on a spectrum, which is part of why it's impossible to define a trans person as simply passing or not passing.

Pondering why an anonymous prehistoric craftsman would choose to depict the female form this way, Dr. Spivey turns to Prof. V. S. Ramachandran, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, whose research suggests that human brains respond more positively to exaggerated, desirable bodily attributes.

It is this claim that de-biologizes Freud, since it articulates the function of the phallus apart from any particular bodily attributes.

There's a bodily dimension too.

He tells us about the linguistic acrobatics required to circumvent the censors; the complexities of censorship in Iran, where there is a literary tradition of using ornate metaphors and similes for bodily and sexual attributes (including lots of fruit, flower and food imagery); and the government's reported use of Western computer software to identify literary works published under pseudonyms.

Hume distinguishes four broad categories of objects or features of ourselves which give rise to the indirect passions: our wealth, external goods, or property; our immediate relatives or those people who are closely related to us on another basis; our bodily qualities or attributes; and, most important, our qualities of mind, or character traits (T, 2.1.2.5; 294f7.1–5/279, 294f; DP, 146 53).

It measures eight major attributes (bodily pain; physical function; social function; role limitations because of physical problems; role limitations because of emotional problems; mental health; vitality; general health perceptions).

The concept of cenesthopathy was first introduced by Dupré and Camus in 1907 to describe clinically unexplainable bodily sensations mainly attributed to psychiatric pathology.