The entire atmosphere was charged to the utmost with electricity, the presence of which sent a thrill through the whole nervous system of all animated beings.

However, some others argue that the depiction of animated beings is permissible if the art was not meant to be worshipped, and the creator did not intend to rival God (or intended any heresy) in the creation.

Although pagans in Muhammad's times also worshiped trees and stones, Muhammad opposed only images of animated beings - humans and animals -, as reported by the hadith.

The only thing they haven't yet figured out is how to make her actually sound like an animated, soulful human being in the live setting.

Water--the divine Nestis of the Agrigentine Empedocles--is so necessary to animated beings that nothing can live far from the rivers and the springs.

His pages are populated by all kinds of animated beings: humans, animals and acutely observed ordinary objects.

Until the mid-1960s, NICAP gave little attention to close encounters of the third kind (where animated beings are purportedly sighted in relation to a UFO).

Long range, I'd like to see what would happen if a television show that starred actual rather than animated human beings risked doing what "The Simpsons" already does.

Entire regions are the homes of such animated beings.

We know nothing more than our mode of perceiving them, which is peculiar to us, and which, though not of necessity pertaining to every animated being, is so to the whole human race.