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
Its power to uphold spiritual ideas, and develop spiritual truths; its speculative resources as an antagonist of scientific materialism, animal fatalism, and sensualism, are rendered all but useless.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
It was strange and incongruous in aspect,—a sort of conglomeration of sensualism, religious ideas, and Buddhist idols.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray
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