animalness

The food, the filth, the abuse, the bullying, the -- the sheer animalness of it!

CHAPTER XIII 2010

The way White handles Wart's animal experiences is almost like a blueprint for writing good animal characters that don't lose their animalness I thought that was a made up word, but spellcheck likes it.

Take Four Lefts, and Then Ask Someone Else for Directions Editorial Anonymous 2010

In this way, our frustrations with dogs often arise from our extreme anthropomorphizing, which neglects the very animalness of dogs.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

In this way, our frustrations with dogs often arise from our extreme anthropomorphizing, which neglects the very animalness of dogs.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

And in that animalness, you are no more unique than an ant, or a snake, or a dog.

Suing your own abortionist for making you witness the murder of your accidentally delivered child. Ann Althouse 2009

I appreciated the animalness of it—that we had met at the airport forty-five minutes before and then we were in bed copulating.

The Double Life is Twice as Good Jonathan Ames 2009

I appreciated the animalness of it—that we had met at the airport forty-five minutes before and then we were in bed copulating.

The Double Life is Twice as Good Jonathan Ames 2009

Some struggles are inevitable, like bringing crops from rocky soil, but the struggle of admitting one's fundamental animalness need not be difficult, and this was Salt's message to his contemporaries.

Henry Salt on Shelley: Literary Criticism and Ecological Identity 2001

But it was the hint of hair beneath the knee, this intrusion of animalness, that drew me to her.

THE EXTRA MAN JONATHAN AMES 1998

That would be just as well, because despite his declared feelings, there was an unavoidable feline animalness about Elfa that?

Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979