How to Use animism in a Sentence

animism

noun

• This native animism will take on special importance in the case of Lenin.
  — Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
• Before science, the flash of lighting that followed a crack of thunder was the will of Greek gods or a violent outcropping of animism.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2013
• Mountains in Korea are sacred places in animism and shamanism, whose traces can still be seen in Korean Seon Buddhism.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2021
• The game’s art director, Son Tra Le added that there is an element of animism in Vietnamese culture and religion.
  — George Yang, Wired, 17 May 2021
• The label, riffing on motifs, iconography, animism and proverbs from across the African continent, was a way for Masekela to pick up the elder Masekela’s mantle and stoke curiosity in the West.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Apr. 2022
• When attempting to explain love (and later, death), Heti slips from her biblical register into a kind of animism.
  — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
• It’s based on my father’s writing about his life; about colonization, animism, immigration, and his mother who was a Yoruba priest and dancer.
  — Liam Freeman, Vogue, 31 July 2021
• What Si-Qin proposes is a sort of cyber-age animism that rejects traditional Western divisions between human and nature, mind and body, and life and death.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2020
• Crowds regularly throng the streets for one of the countless ceremonies that honor everything from trees and animals to birth and cremation—Balinese Hinduism is a mash-up of animism and Buddhism.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Nov. 2018
• Lawson draws viewers in with her use of magical realism to illustrate the history and practices of animism — a belief system built around the idea that all animals, plants, places and inanimate objects have a soul — in African culture.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 22 June 2022
• The cosmology of spirits in Thailand — a Buddhist-majority nation with crosscurrents of Hinduism, Chinese ancestor worship, and animism — is vast.
  — Adam Dean, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2020
• Abbas devoted the next few years to chronicling other religions and beliefs, including Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and animism, which is the belief that animals and plants have a spiritual essence.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
• Borck argues that neuroscience has something in common with animism, the religious belief that spirits inhabit various objects.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2016
• This is vintage Lockwood: animism, eroticism, and absurdity, equal parts surrealist subconscious and vernacular Americana, stretched to the limits of grammar.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
• Animism: The Gods’ Lake is an alternate reality game designed to explore aboriginal Canadian legends through a contemporary setting.
  — Michael Andersen, WIRED, 2 Sep. 2010

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024