anthropomorphise

Donald Laycock's paintings of multicolored constellations would anthropomorphise into a female nude.

The temptation is to anthropomorphise their plight, to compare them with human beings in similar situations (as Rollin does explicitly) who would almost certainly be distressed at the opportunities that they were foregoing and make protest.

It is just as much 'sentimental bunkum' to believe that humans hold exclusive rights to being creatures of consciousness and conscience which go beyond mere instinct as it is to anthropomorphise an octopus.

- Anywey, Birrell explains, - Rab wis gaun oan aboot dugs bein able tae ken what ye say n that Gareth goes: Don't anthropomorphise our four-legged friends, Robert, it merely serves to debase members of both species.

To anthropomorphise a bit, literature has always been a little embarrassed that its defining moments of modernity, or Modernism, if you prefer - The Waste Land and Ulysses - appeared so long after the similar moments in art (Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, 1907) and music (The Rite of Spring, 1913).