How to Use animism in a Sentence
animism
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This native animism will take on special importance in the case of Lenin.
—Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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When attempting to explain love (and later, death), Heti slips from her biblical register into a kind of animism.
—Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Borck argues that neuroscience has something in common with animism, the religious belief that spirits inhabit various objects.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2016
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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
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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
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