sensualist
Americannoun
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a person given to the indulgence of the senses or appetites.
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a person who holds the doctrine of sensationalism.
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And Sorrentino, a dedicated sensualist, does allow himself some lighter touches, including, toward the end, a fanciful visual metaphor for a burdened man’s spirit that maybe only he could get away with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025
Rajamouli is a cinematic sensualist, something not often seen or appreciated in the action genre.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2022
Yet the concentration and physiological specificity with which he embodied characters, from power-hungry medieval monarchs to a 20th-century sensualist painter, made you tense up in anatomical empathy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
The odes are so beautiful — and Keats’s image as a sensualist, an effete Romantic aesthete, so firmly established — that it is easy to overlook how philosophically accomplished and profound they are.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2021
The man was obviously not in the habit of exercising an ascetic control over his appetites, but he looked too hard and virile to be a confirmed sensualist.
From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold
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