This view is also sometimes called animalism (e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Identity and Ethics] Reference
All I could remember was the intensity, the animalism of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Noon]
There's an undercurrent of synchronistic animalism amongst the Left!. From Wordnik.com. [News Orgs: The Left Is Upset With Obama -- Even Though It Isn't] Reference
Education and elevation will gradually reduce the animalism of the face. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 05, May, 1890] Reference
Like some great mythical feline she was filled with a dynamic animalism. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
But that transitory gleam of the true animalism of these monsters was enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
In the romances of chivalry love is either a mere animalism or a fantastic idolatry. From Wordnik.com. [Don Quixote] Reference
When short and stubby looking, the subject is inclined to animalism and gross materialism. From Wordnik.com. [Palmistry for All] Reference
It is a wonderful illustration of the fact that we don't in any way transcend our animalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Challenge of the 21st Century] Reference
In one short generation such uplifting human enlightenment has been replaced with animalism. From Wordnik.com. ["Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much."] Reference
"There's an animalism in some men that attracts the shyest of women, as well as the boldest,". From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Possessed]
In chaos and order, animalism and classical harmony, outer dysfunction and inner transcendence. From Wordnik.com. [Out of Context: For Pina] Reference
It is an appeal from the virtues of the intellect to the virtues of the body, or to mere animalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Controversy] Reference
"I have channeled my animalism into a useful social function," Pon explained, still looking at Karpo. From Wordnik.com. [A Fine Red Rain]
The wonder was that he had not sunk into an unquestioning animalism -- a mere brute state of idiocy -- years ago. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
But while the soul dimly hears voices from above it has not yet, altogether, escaped from the influence of animalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
The City of Destruction is the state of animalism and selfishness from which the race has slowly emerged; and the City. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
One horn of the dilemma is ideal spirituality that wrestles against the other horn, protective materialistic animalism. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
It is surrounded by those who still wallow in animalism, and the sounds of the lower world are yet echoing in its ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
When the vestiges of the latter, both natural and artificial, were removed, man reverted to a kind of control led animalism. From Wordnik.com. [Tar Aiym Krang]
If only the soul in man, in woman, would speak to her, not always this strange, perverse materialism, or a distorted animalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
She was coarse and commonplace, but she was also shapely, ripe-breasted, good-natured, full of the appeal of a healthy animalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
The soul is purified and strengthened as it rises above animalism; it is made courageous by bodily pain; tears clarify its vision. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
Millions are so engrossed with selfishness, or animalism, that they catch the accents of no spiritual message, but those appeals are never hushed. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
The earth and animalism will never cease to make appeal to our senses, while at the same time voices from above will call from their heights to our spirits. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
The tendency to revert to animalism has been vividly depicted by the poets, and the clamorous and insistent nature of the passions portrayed by the artists. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
And, though it be filthy, it yet hath a splendor of mere animalism of good spirits. From Wordnik.com. [1601] Reference
So, when the history of Kashmir is written, as much as the treachery and tribal animalism of Islamic invaders and the so-called. From Wordnik.com. [Drishtikone.com - All Perspectives] Reference
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