He describes his pre-imprisonment body as rotund and, as he continues to enjoy abundant and delicious food, he says he is again at risk of not being able to look down and see his toes.
Following his murder after 55 days of imprisonment, his body was dumped in a Renault 4 parked outside the contemporary history library in Via Caetani, a narrow street equally distant from the headquarters of the two main parties.
Very often there is a doctrine of the preexistence of the soul or spirit, the soul's incarnation and imprisonment within the body, its eventual rescue and ascent, and sometimes its reincarnation themes that were also common in Platonism or Neo-Pythagoreanism.
One of the comedies of this description is that while Bellow insists on our free agency as intelligences and souls, he gestures at the same time toward the physical imprisonment of our bodies.
Yet the policing, surveillance, and imprisonment of black bodies in Canada is nothing new.
Punishment may take forms ranging from capital punishment, flogging, forced labour, and mutilation of the body to imprisonment and fines.
When she arrived in our house, three months ago, I described the typical trajectory of Lou Gehrig's disease — toward complete paralysis and eventual imprisonment within a lifeless body — and explained the debilitating transformation my mother had already begun to undergo: incomprehensible speech, loss of mobility in all limbs, howl-inducing spasms at all hours of the day.
The role of chanting as a restorative spiritual balm against the indignities of daily strife internalizes the struggle of freedom and imprisonment within the individual body and mind.
Earlier this year, a government minister criticized leading fashion labels for including Islamic dress items in their collections, accusing them of colluding in the "imprisonment of women's bodies". .
Neither Carrie (who bears scars from her time in Iraq) nor Nicholas (who survived a brutal, years-long imprisonment) can escape what was done to their bodies.
I realized that solitary imprisonment was a test more of mind than of body.
