Abbr. on a spirited passage

Usage examples of anim.

She was talk¬ ing animatedly to two guys, bouncing around them like a cartoon character.

I asked her what perfume she was wearing, and then discussed how animals always sniff each other before they mate and how we're evolutionarily wired to feel aroused when someone smells us.

I asked her what perfume she was wearing, and then discussed how animals always sniff each other before they mate and how we're evolutionary wired to feel aroused when someone smells us.

Newspapers only came across their radar if they happened to run a science article about animal mating habits.

My dick, which I had thought was a completely mindless animal desperate to stick itself in any hole, actually responded to emotion.

Only the ambassador’s party will actually perform any animal executions.

And how could one of these present-day sages reasonably explain to me that in a noble and lofty human type such as I, certainly not without some right, dared call myself, the very strong working of an impulse common to all animals was coupled with an exaggerated sensitiveness for its ignoble character?

The women of other countries still bore some resemblance to the female animal.

They are like animals and children, hearkening to the voice that first called them, following the habits first taught them, curiously stubborn in the errors grown habitual to them in youth, and with a strange tendency toward the lower, as though falling through the influence of a gravitation.

The shame of my unworthiness could, perhaps, have been wiped out with the help of Emmy's magnanimous forgiveness.

That it was all over with Emmy was a relief to him, but all the more anxiously he watched this animated correspondence and the increase of the maternal influence.

And when I saw the little house and the quiet, peaceful landscape and heard of the lonely, sober, chaste life of this equanimous and devout Jew, I desired for myself no better lot than to be able to follow his example as soon as possible.

A dog is a good-natured and clever animal, but for that reason it is not doggish to discriminate correctly.

But passions are our friends, the useful domestic animals belonging to our own household, to the economy of our own personal nature.

Then hastily and animatedly I spoke to myself, and I felt my mouth, my breath, my whole body, the animæ corpus.