Sentence examples for the animate from inspiring English sources

Qualitative information for the animate category, animals (Supplementary Material: Qualitative Listings 3) appears to support the findings of Garrard et al. (2001) showing a higher ratio of sensory to functional features (e.g., has four legs, fur, tail) which frequently overlapped with other category members.

They're an oral culture, intimately connected to the animate landscape and have song lines that tell how their animal ancestors created (and whose spirits still reside in) the various hills (by sitting down there) and lakes (spilling a canteen here).

But, beneath the animate jollity, this observational comedy lacks novelty.

Some potential hazards are of the animate variety.

In the end Mr. Greenwold makes the inanimate almost as alive as the animate.

For his mobiles are real moving objects released into the animate world.

The encounter was thrilling, symbolising the animate spirit of the landscape.

I feel the same way, standing under what seems the animate stone form of David.

Our findings are interpreted as additional support for the animate-monitoring hypothesis which suggests that early detection of animacy may have endowed our hunter-gather ancestors with survival advantages.

The animate-inanimate or living-nonliving distinction hinges on expected kinetic differences.

The animate-inanimate distinction is considered a foundational one, because it arises early in infancy, is cross-culturally uniform, and is critical for causal interpretations of actions and events [17] [18].