sensualism
Americannoun
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the quality or state of being sensual
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another word for sensationalism sensationalism
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Hung, a French Vietnamese filmmaker whose eye for cinematic sensualism was on display in early works like “The Scent of Green Papaya” and “Cyclo,” here achieves something of a culinary contact high.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023
Miserablism and sensualism pair elegantly in this collaboration between FKA twigs and the Weeknd.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021
The question of spiritual discipline has long been present in his writing: self-denial versus sensualism, the path of Jesus versus that of Byron.
From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2013
We would not deify the world, that is, set up the sensualism of the body, as spiritualism is set up as the sensualism of the soul.
From The Principles Of Secularism by Holyoake, George Jacob
Moreover, mortification of sense as preached by the great ascetics does not prevent that most dangerous of all forms of gratification, the sensualism of the imagination.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Cohen, Chapman
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