fleshly

Example Sentences

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In early Christianity, spiritual warfare meant one was to resist the Devil by engaging in forms of ascetic behavior, mastering fleshly desires, and cultivating Christian virtues like humility, self-control, and love of enemies.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2024

“There were some fleshly remains and the odor was so foul,” the villager said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2021

But a pandemic re-corporealizes us all, re-rooting everyone, including men, in fleshly reality in all its precarity.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2020

What if the fear of machines “like us” masks a deeper terror, the terror of machine agency that disdains language and exceeds fleshly containment?

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

Is the spirit for ever outweighed by its fleshly envelope, the body?

From A Word to Women by Humphry, Mrs. C. E.