Meanings of merely animal in English

The merely animal sodomy which exists in many public schools was unknown.

By going down I mean descending to the level of merely animal realism.

But to the Japanese, woman must be merely animal.

Among primitive men eating and drinking were merely animal.

And that is why I can triumph over your error and your merely animal intelligence, Frederic Larsan.

We grow up at random carrying into mature life the merely animal methods and motives which we had as little children.

In the process of evolution, starting from the merely animal appetite of sexuality, we arrive at the purest and most far-reaching tenderness.

The cultivated state is that where humanity has ceased to be merely animal, and considers the consequences first and the cravings afterwards.

But, greatly perverted as his nature had been, food and clothing, the maintenance of a merely animal life, could no longer satisfy him.

A dog's goodness ("good doggie"), if carried over into a man, would not be goodness but imperfection, regression to merely animal instinct.

You have slipped down into a merely animal stratum of existence; you live to-day because you lived yesterday, and you do not forecast to-morrow.

They carried erect shoulders, like creatures not ashamed of showing a merely animal pride, which is never quite apart from the pride of developed beauty.

The men and women appear to be merely animals gifted with speech.

After all, we are not so much above the animals, and in our lapses we often become merely animals.