The iron monsters behind the throne were unanimated and camouflaged to look like part of the statues.

The bleakness of early winter—the short, hazy days, the bony trees, the way the sky grows dense and unanimated, a sagging gray blanket—can, on the right day, seem nearly funny.

This time around, in a strangely unanimated presidential race boycotted by the mainstream opposition, Maduro has deliberately relegated the Chavez props.

Not only for the fact that the Battle of Loum was a previously unanimated section of back-story but we also get to finally see how Char made a name for himself.

He speaks all this without any outward alarm, unanimated, not unconcerned but as if the situation is already too far gone.