Sentence examples for seems sentient from inspiring English sources

HAL seems certainly seems sentient, but when asked whether the computer has feelings or emotions, one of the astronauts (Dave) responds that there's really no way to know.

His job is to determine whether the sleek, feminine Ava (Alicia Vikander), an android designed by Jobsian media mogul and Caleb's boss Nathan (Oscar Isaac), is a sentient being or simply a machine that seems sentient.

Explains Garland, "SHisdoes the uncanny valley with her physical behavior, her actions and motions.

At other times they seem sentient, asking the right questions (and maybe watching television): "Tony Soprano?" "And where's all the blood?" As poetic as they might sound, these phrases did not bubble up from the subconscious of a writer or latter-day Dada collagist.

They gather and radiate light, seeming sentient, or souled somehow.

The face, turned sideways, seemed fully sentient.

A lot of people don't seem very sentient to me! (Laughs) How has technology changed the work of an actor?

The white chunks seemed almost sentient as they dissolved; like beached animals removed from their natural habitat, they died before us, provoking the uncanny wish that they could somehow be put back.

In her work, books have long been important conceptually and as a kind of raw material, "almost like bricks" as she describes them, though bricks that seem almost sentient in the postmodern way of text liberated from its author.

Suzan Woodruff: Luminous Matters | Suzan Woodruff's viscous vistas conduct the viewer through mesmeric realms where colors seem potentially sentient, diffusing, roiling, billowing, erupting their way across surfaces of cosmic commotion.

As incarnated here, right down to the strangely folded tips of his ears, by Toni Servillo, he seems omnipresent, barely sentient, and quite possibly immortal.