They may be shades of the dead under many aspects--ghostly hands, or ghosts of inanimate objects.
This subject may be viewed in another light, however, by considering that these Indians sometimes impute spirits even to inanimate objects, and when the wife or the slave is slain, their spirits meet the chief in the future land.
By fetishism, on the other hand, is universally meant the belief in the demoniacal power of inanimate objects.
The activity of totem ancestors was associated with certain inanimate objects, such as the Australian churingas, to which magical powers were held to have been transmitted.
In this way, plant totems came to be added to animal totems; finally, as a result of certain relations of these two totems to inanimate objects, there arose a fetishistic offshoot of totemism.
Moreover, according to an idea particularly peculiar to the totemic age, this latter soul may become embodied in other living beings, especially in animals, but also in plants, and even in inanimate objects.
It is usually awkward and slightly illogical to attribute possession to inanimate objects.
This apparent animation and frolicsome behaviour of inanimate objects is reported all through history, and attested by immense quantities of evidence of every degree.
Hence, any great nimber or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
The lower forms of animals are somewhat like plants and inanimate objects.
Let us illustrate the contrast between man and inanimate objects by an example.
IV Luggage and the Lady I write as one pursued through life by the malevolence of inanimate objects.
It is the sudden acquisition of personality by inanimate objects.
A person may be jealous of people who can never be sexual rivals; the jealousy need not even be of people; it may be of inanimate objects, of a person's work, profession or hobby.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inanimate objects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
