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
The youth who is familiar with the love-stories of Shakespeare, and George Eliot, and Meredith, will suffer little harm from the gilded sensualism of the Restoration drama.
From Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Maurice Alpheus Bigelow
History notices the same rotation continually—idealism, sensualism, scepticism, and finally mysticism.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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