Word: sentient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only a truly sentient artist, moved deeply and genuinely by the events in the lives of those men & women of the Old Testament, could have reanimated that ancient spirituality so luminously...
...because two of his native (Negro) employes had separated 30 live lizards from their valuable skins. Cruelty to animals is an offense under South African law. But the case raised a nice point of biolegalism: is a lizard an animal? Ruled Magistrate C. J. Humphreys: "An animal is a sentient being which takes food in a digestive cavity, has the power of voluntary motion, and a means of reproduction and respiration. A lizard has all these." Therefore Shopkeeper Alter was guilty of cruelty to lizards, was fined...
...many of its correspondences, dreams, and borderland apprehensions of a bottomless past, this book has the gooseflesh resonance of a well-made poem, full of dim, sentient suggestions of a religious fatality. Its whole treatment is somber, muted, ardent. As a confused, cryptic painting-a portrait of a personal absorption rather than a public communication -it is moving. Yet, within its arbitrary framework, it convincingly clarifies nothing about destiny...
...Fernel did not hold man apart from nature. Plants too had souls-vegetative souls. Animals had vegetative and sentient souls. Man had a vegetative, sentient and-uniquely-a rational soul. Man was thus nature's greatest work...
...poetry of St.-Joan Perse (Alexis Leger). As a woman Elizabeth Madox Roberts has her principal strength, her ultimate weakness. Her strength is an exquisite sensitiveness to the subtlest personal emotions, and to the quieter values of a well-executed prose. Her weakness is a sort of thin though sentient primness; a love of the archaic for its own sake...