“But equally essential to making sense of the chaos of the world and our place in it, is our ability to distinguish between objects and different kinds of things, so living or dead, animate or inanimate.”

“Oh, today's was an animate dance! Sometimes inanimate dances happen as well!”

“But we employ fables in an animastic mode, when we contemplate the energies of the soul.”

“In a while, the singing started again, and the dances became more animated.”

“Near the harbor is an animated marketplace.”

“Sensibility is the general phenomenon which constitutes and comprehends the whole existence of an animated being.”

“The ancient Pacific religions have been animistic religions, that is very, very close relationships between human and the natural elements.”

“Vedic Invocations, which are deemed animistic and crudely pagan by many scholars, merely invoke God through his attributes and functions.”

“The pre-Christian religion of the Fijians was both animistic and polytheistic, and included a cult of chiefly ancestors.”

“The animating music filled the room, infusing everyone with strength, energy, and vitality.”