Sentence examples for bodily terms from inspiring English sources

Similarly, anthropomorphism is unacceptable, and metaphorical interpretation of those passages in Scripture that describe God in bodily terms is necessary.

Rye, middle baritone of the Gogan Boys, an act too big for this stage (not only reputation-wise but in strict bodily terms, the three Irish louts in their thick brocaded vests would never have fit on this club's riser), was the celebrity among them, not that any of them would acknowledge it.

Jess e)'s and Mary Martin's refusal to transition "fully" from female to male, both wanting to stay in a space, a body, that is still being articulated in both linguistic and bodily terms, indicates the potential and need for linguistic change and for new ways of conceptualizing embodiment.

Mental ill-health was often described as being expressed in bodily terms.

"Americans claim to be a 'gut' nation — which is kind of a bodily term for what we roughly term our 'values,' " he declares.

Author Parker Palmer reminds us in Healing the Heart of Democracy, that it embraced all the human ways of knowing: "intellectual, emotional, sensory, intuitive, imaginative, experiential, relational and bodily". This term recognized that war not only "shatters one's 'sense of self,'" but also their connections to family and community.

We prefer the more general term bodily engagement instead of the term motor engagement introduced by Johnson-Glenberg et al. (2014) since it includes aspects of embodiment that lie beyond the nervous system (for overviews on environmental aspects of cognition, see Clark, 2008 and Wilson, 2002).

In Bermudez's (2005) terms, bodily sensations have both A-location (i.e. bodily frame of reference independent of the posture of the body) and B-location (i.e. external frame relative to the posture of the body).

In each of PIl4, 5 and 6, Spinoza speaks of bodily persistence in terms of its parts keeping the same ratio of motion and rest.

How can one envisage accounting for bodily space in terms of Cartesian reference frame when one cannot provide a center of this frame, nor suggest axes on which one could compute distances and directions (Bermudez, 1998, 2005)?

But there was a serious question about just what "experience" should be taken to be: was it the usual sort of encounter we have with ordinary middle-sized objects such as tables and chairs, the weather and bodily actions, in terms of which most people would readily describe their perceptual experience?