In time that rope came to have sentiency in the eyes of Wade. |
Rutherford paced up and down the room in a stress of sentiency. |
Roof and walls had attached themselves to his sentiency, even as the shell of the snail is attached to its pulp. |
They do so on the grounds that only those beings that have such characteristics as rationality, cognitive capacity, or sentiency can be oppressed. |
It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion. |
And we now know that sentiency, the ability to experience pleasure and pain, requires not only the formation of nerve cells but a functioning central nervous system. |