Sentence examples for bodily transformation from inspiring English sources
Ultimately, an examination of copper production at Huaca Colorada as a ritual of bodily transformation sheds light on the culturally specific structures of power characterizing the greater Jequetepeque region during the Late Moche Period.
If claims to have always belong to a sex are used to flag a gender identity and perhaps the sense that one ought to have born to the other sex (on the one hand), while claims to have changed one's sex are used to flag bodily transformation (on the other hand), then there scarcely seems to be a self-defeating tension.
"There's bodily transformation, it's beautiful but disturbing and emotional.
Their bodily transformations were terrifying but at least it was their bodies, and not their minds, that were being transformed.
Their bodily transformations were terrifying — but at least it was their bodies, and not their minds, that were being transformed.
In "Videodrome" (1983) a video signal embedded in a pornographic cable broadcast causes hallucinations and bodily transformations in its viewers.
To find the drastic bodily transformations that they thought must have resulted from a steep improvement in nutrition, the researchers had to go back 1.9 million years, when humanity's ancestors shifted from being small-brained, jut-jawed australopithecines to being cortically enhanced, small-faced and modestly dentitioned Homo erectus, the immediate predecessors to modern humans.
Mr. Erlich, a newcomer, is one of the show's surprises, along with Michael Joo, whose transparent, headless Buddha and synthetic white dogs with models of human hearts in them extend Matthew Barney's weird bodily transformations in the direction of science fiction.
Slumpies address those unusual, sometimes awkward bodily transformations in a way that's fully utilitarian.
Part love story, part dark fairy tale, Silver's novel is about a girl who is born a dwarf and later undergoes difficult and mysterious bodily transformations.
The way Lethem remembers it, "the 'evolved' Talking Heads dragged the boy bodily through transformations he couldn't have known to invite but didn't remotely care to resist".
