anthropomorphismin a sentence
- the anthropomorphic animals in "The Lion King"
- The dingy backlit sign, which featured a smiling anthropomorphic fiber-optic cable, promised Lightning-Fast OASIS Access!† (source)
- All are instances of that animal equivalent of anthropomorphism: zoomorphism, where an animal takes a human being, or another animal, to be one of its kind.† (source)
- that endeavor too, and the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon, pro-American God, which had begun to waver.† (source)
- But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic Gods they replaced.† (source)
- Those unfamiliar with horses might scoff at the notion of equine pride as a silly anthropomorphism, but the behavior is unmistakable.† (source)
- The more you want to go in this direction, the more anthropomorphic you get in the thing's design.† (source)
- I was unable to make the anthropomorphic leap and thus failed to comprehend the resemblance between a swan and any specific human being, but Sophie swore that they were dead look-alikes, began to call him Tadeusz and murmured to him in little glottal clucks and clicks of Polish as she heaved at him the debris from her bag.† (source)
- There was nothing anthropomorphic about Rashaverak.† (source)
- This one is unwarranted and overly anthropomorphic, though ...You wanted my opinion.† (source)
- "Anthropomorphic design," I said, "both because it was originally telefactored and because of the psychological reasoning I just mentioned.† (source)
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- Unfortunately, despite the anthropomorphic design job, the Hangman's legs were positioned farther apart, he lacked human skeletal muscles, not to mention insteps, and he was possessed of a lot more mass than any man I had ever fought.† (source)
- Many other details of life and local custom are similarly duplicated, interpreted, and thus validated, in the details of the anthropomorphic idols.† (source)
- This is the anthropomorphic personification of the power of generation, the Mighty Living One, as it is called in the Kabbala.† (source)
- The bringing together of the two great symbols of the meeting with the goddess and the fire theft reveals with simplicity and clarity the status of the anthropomorphic powers in the realm of myth.† (source)
- Not his personal fate, but the fate of mankind, of life as a whole, the atom and all the solar systems, has been opened to him; and this in terms befitting his human understanding; that is to say, in terms of an anthropomorphic vision: the Cosmic Man.† (source)
- In Christianity, Mohammedanism, and Judaism, however, the personality of the divinity is taught to be final—which makes it comparatively difficult for the members of these communions to understand how one may go beyond the limitation, of their own anthropomorphic divinity.† (source)
- Anthropomorphic as she was, she stimulated him into appreciating things thus, and then they lived for her.† (source)
- London is religion's opportunity—not the decorous religion of theologians, but anthropomorphic, crude.† (source)
- Jehovah was anthropomorphic because he could address himself to the Jews only in terms of their understanding; so he was conceived as in their own image, as a cloud, a pillar of fire, a tangible, physical something which the mind of the Israelites could grasp.† (source)
- But affliction makes opposing forces loom anthropomorphous; and those ideas were now exchanged for a sense of Jude and herself fleeing from a persecutor.† (source)
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