In spite of their cunning philosophy and of their
antlike proclivities for cooperation, Nature rejected them for the exceptional man.
This is me working hard against my
antlike tendencies, ingrained in me by my immigrant parents, modern-day hustle culture and our pervasive, status-quo American busyness.
A handful of roadies in black T-shirts with MILK printed on the back lugged instruments out from the bowels of the bus and,
antlike, entered the venue in a line.
Though there are many animals in the world known as anteaters, the pangolins are apparently the only creatures which specialize in eating true ants, the other "anteaters" preferring the less dangerous
antlike termites.
His lab is famous for building such machines: tiny "microTugs" that can team up,
antlike, to pull a car, and a gecko-inspired "Stickybot" that climbs walls.
Creatures the size of a car seem
antlike in the mornings haze as animals begin to stir in the Noah's ark of Africa.
IF you want to feel tiny,
antlike and insignificant - or, on the other hand, awe-struck by the power and majesty of nature - you can always sign up for a dicey expedition that will take you into survival gear and out of your comfort zone.
He disdains specialization because it "breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility." Stultifying and emasculating, the market makes us
antlike in our behavior, dependent on others and ignorant of what keeps us alive.
Cutler, "Reduced predation on the
antlike jumping spider Synageles occidentalis (Araneae: Salticidae)," Journal of Insect Behavior, vol.
In place of the great concepts which stand at the beginning of scientific development, in which intuition held mastery over reason, we find the mechanical,
antlike industry characteristic of modern laboratories (pp.