Charles Krauthammer

Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.

American Journalist

Henry Selick

What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the electricity of someone touching, massaging and torturing themselves to get life out of an inanimate object.

American Director

Nicholas A. Christakis

We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.

American Scientist

Tim Burton

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.

American Novelist

Mike Mills

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

American Musician

Philip Treacy

I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

Irish Designer

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

Nigerian Writer

Mitt Romney

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

American Politician

John Lasseter

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

Inanimate often describes physical objects that cannot move or grow.

Physical Objects

In science classes, inanimate is used to differentiate non-living materials from living organisms.

Science Context

Contrast 'inanimate' with 'animated' when describing objects in art or storytelling to indicate lack of movement.

Contrast with Animated

Inanimate can describe a person’s expression that lacks emotion or energy, often due to sadness or shock.

Describing Emotions

When describing people, 'inanimate' suggests a temporary state, not suggesting they are actually lifeless.

Emotional State

Use 'inanimate' in creative writing to set a still, quiet, or lifeless atmosphere.

Descriptive Writing

 It has this bizarre, ongoing philosophical project of dividing all the inanimate objects in the world into the ones that either cause or prevent cancer. Here are some of the things they said cause divorce, Wi-Fi, toiletries and coffee. Some things they say prevent crusts, red pepper, licorice and coffee. So you can see there are contradictions.

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 doesn't jump-start an inanimate heart, but resynchronizes the muscle cells in an abnormally beating heart so they regain their normal rhythm. This can prevent a person from dying, but it won't raise a dead body, or a monster sewn together from dead bodies. So it would seem that all our various medical miracles

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 solution to this problem and I would propose that we need to start to push to get real strong encryption to be recognized by all governments as a fundamental human right thank you thank you we skip back to the last slide to the yeah there we go I also want to just talk about inanimate II for a second we

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 proliferating and radiating into an incredible ray of complex life forms. All of this— living and inanimate, microscopic and cosmic— is governed by mathematical laws with apparently arbitrary constants. And this opens up a If the universe is completely governed by these laws,

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 it's rare that your brain can override it even at times when danger isn't really present like in this unique experiment we've designed to test fight-or-flight responses we brought in a team of makeup artists to transform our actor into an inanimate statue

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 because that's an inanimate object he's more focused looking down the camera down my arm and at me because he knows that that's the thing he might have to bite though this is one of the most frightening animals in the world and

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 But so does everything else. So does all inanimate matter, made up of trillions of atoms. Ultimately, there's a quantum level where we have to delve into this weirdness. But in everyday life, we can forget about it.

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 the financial and environmental cost of concrete production. Eventually, these microorganisms may force us to reconsider the way we think about our cities, bringing our inanimate concrete jungles to life.

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 But obviously each of them was alive at some point in the past. They they become so inanimate once they've reached this stage of their existence, That I think that probably helps me to compartmentalize.

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 Many of the inanimate objects around you probably seem perfectly still. But look deep into the atomic structure of any of them, and you'll see a world in constant flux.

Inanimate

Physical Objects

Science Context

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