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  • They tended to approach photorealism when the creatures were not doing anything extremely un-animalesque; e.g. when the beavers are running, they look like beavers, but when they grin, they look like cartoon characters.

    The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Review Richard Nokes 2005

  • They tended to approach photorealism when the creatures were not doing anything extremely un-animalesque; e.g. when the beavers are running, they look like beavers, but when they grin, they look like cartoon characters.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Richard Nokes 2005

  • But they were in fine animalesque form last night.

    super-suzan Diary Entry super-suzan 2006

  • No doubt, ages must have passed before he emerged from his animalesque condition and abandoned polygynous and polygamous manners, the marriage by capture and purchase, which were the stages which mark the historical evolution of the contract.

    Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan

  • They became solitaries, animalesque and shy -- such as we may imagine our hairy progenitors to have been.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

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