Sentence examples for bodily shape from inspiring English sources

The snake is the magico-mythical creature that gives both its bodily shape (either straight or undulant) and its metaphysical power to the kris.

Man lives in his bodily shape between heaven and earth and his life is like the span of the summer fly, like the passing of a white colt glimpsed through a crack in the wall.

Clearly, he was little inconvenienced by his spinal problem and accounts of his appearance, written when he was alive, tell that he was 'of person and bodily shape comely enough' and 'the most handsome man in the room after his brother, Edward IV'".

For him, the writing of history had an exalted and very Confucian mission: Man lives in his bodily shape between heaven and earth and his life is like the span of the summer fly, like the passing of a white colt glimpsed through a crack in the wall.

"Surely the fear of the prewarmed seat," said Ruth Barcan, a professor of gender and cultural studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, "is less a rationally grounded fear of infection than a fear of the touch of the stranger, the Other who is so like us as to share our bodily shape and our bodily needs, but unknown to us, and therefore potentially contaminating".

If gender becomes a matter of bodily style and performance, as this model suggests, then there is no necessary link between gender and any particular bodily shape.

Combined with real cords, these doubling lines imply not just spatial depth but also, for those alert to Mr. Johns's age-old tactics, bodily shapes, perhaps testicles.

The study, whose findings will appear in the Friday issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, was undertaken after research among hundreds of adopted children indicated that bodily shapes was determined more by genetics than by eating habits.

The significance, therefore, of certain bodily shapes, informs our sense of our own body and of the bodies of others.

Academic Focus: Cognitive diversity: how language, culture and bodily experience shape our brains and minds.

Her research questions sit at the intersection of social, personality, and biological psychology and primarily concern questions regarding embodiment: how emotions, thoughts, and intentions are experienced in the body and how bodily responses shape and influence thoughts, behavior, and emotions.