Sentient

In every case, such savages attribute the to-them-incomprehensible forces of Nature – storms, pestilences, droughts – to sentient beings more powerful and more arbitrary than men.

"Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. It's not just the body looking at you with nothing in it; there's still something in there but it died and just keeps on looking and looking; it can't stop looking."

It was not normal fire; Crabbe had used a curse of which Harry had no knowledge: As they turned a corner the flames chased them as though they were alive, sentient, intent upon killing them.

"Yes, but not that light," he said, loosening her arms and smiling at her as if she were a remote memory, and not a sentient creature on his breast.

However, Hudson was extraordinarily sentient; psychic to an uncommon degree." "But why did he persist in swimming," inquired Mrs. Bliss, "if he was afraid of it?" "For that very reason, unquestionably.

What an ominous minute is that in which society draws back and consummates the irreparable abandonment of a sentient being!

It conjured up an image of fate, not blind at all but equipped with sentient 20/20 vision and intent on grinding helpless mortals between the great millstones of the universe to make some unknown bread.

During the night at least a hundred seamen and assorted civilians came in and cast their sentient debouchements on me till I was unrecognizably caked.

Each day some of us passed; and the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage: indeed, our taskmaster was merciless, merciless, so long as our bruised feet could stagger forward on the road.

They knew in their deepest awareness that any transgression could be ascribed, at least in part, to well recognized extenuating circumstances: "the failure of authority," or "a natural bad tendency" shared by all humans, or to "bad luck," which any sentient creature should be able to identify as a collision between mortal flesh and the outer chaos of the universe.