sensually
Americanadverb
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in a carnal or fleshly way that is preoccupied with the gratification of the senses or physical appetites.
In our sensually dominated society, the habit of acting out fantasy is becoming a cultural norm.
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in an unchaste or immoral and unrestrained way.
Today we are increasingly bombarded with sensually explicit images from the internet, television, movies, and print advertising.
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in a way that arouses or excites the senses or physical appetites.
This sensually calculated music is made to move people onto the dance floor—and beyond.
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in a worldly, materialistic, or irreligious way.
Those who think merely naturally and sensually do not allow their minds to be lifted up into spiritual light.
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in a way that relates to the senses or physical sensation.
Learning happens best when the demand on a learner's "working memory" meets the ability to sensually process the information through both channels—auditory and visual.
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His debut album, “Lyfe 268-192,” released in 2004, introduced listeners to his sensually raspy voice through songs that covered love from many angles.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2022
Aretha Franklin, in her sensually, softly swaggering southern-soul version, throws the baton to her listeners, undercutting the song’s reputation for arrogance: “Sure, you took some blows / And you did it your way.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2019
In other words, Chopin forces you to think of time sensually, forces the pianist to acknowledge the connection between the body and duration.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2017
The swatches of fake bel canto in the scenes from “Rosa” might have seemed musically interminable were it not for the fact that a listener could simply bask in Aldrich’s sensually rich mezzo.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2016
Lee insisted, hastily, that what he wanted—no, demanded—was not this destruction of responsibility, a chaos, mentally and sensually, but the removal of it as a rigid mob imposition on the higher discretion of his individuality.
From Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer
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