creatureliness

Several poems involve encounters with animals, as if exploring the edges of creatureliness.

He couldn't accept his creatureliness.

It is precisely humans' creatureliness - that is, their not being God and therefore omniscient - that makes them capable of sinning.

The creatureliness of snakes, herons, a turtle, a prickly cactus are captured in boldly-patterned drawings that fairly explode with life.

Mr. Gilman, brilliant at telling us what a play isn't, turns silent when it's time to tell us what it is, references to Hamlet's "creatureliness" notwithstanding.

Man must learn to distinguish between those things which are given and which he must accept as part of his creatureliness, and those conditions which, exercising his responsibility towards creation, he must seek to change.

He does not dwell on the significance of the Incarnation, but rather on the process by which the individual can, despite partial knowledge and creatureliness, enter into a darkness where nothing is known, yet God is existentially encountered in love.

Slavery's denial of the full 'creatureliness' of human beings, in the words of Leicester abolitionists its annihilation of 'the dignity which belongs to a reasonable and accountable nature', constituted one aspect in this religious perspective on its inhumanity.

A daughter's art is said to show "the duality of creatureliness," and the life-changing enactment of her husband's promise to his sister, the central circumstance of "Angels Without Wings," is examined through a psychotherapist: "After all, the doctor said, you're not the one who made the promise to keep all the children together.