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
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
Whippet-thin and strait-laced, he stands in dour contrast to Neruda, a plump sensualist with a robust sense of mischief and appetite for pleasure.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2017
The Prince, I doubt me, is an indolent sensualist, and, like all weak-minded men, most easily provoked into jealousy.
From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John
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