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
Yet the person who is best at translating Mr. Wilson’s questions and ideas into structurally sound and sensually rich postmodern dance is Mr. Wilson himself.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2018
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
For that mortal feeling, music itself, in its sensually clobbering immediacy, provides a cure.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 6, 2015
The impassioned lover of human relations is a finer being than the unimpassioned artist, just as the impassioned artist is a finer being than the man who loves sensually and materialistically.
From The Silent Isle by Benson, Arthur Christopher
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