carnality
Example Sentences
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His songs married carnality and spirituality, with an echo of the little boy singing in the gospel choir of his father’s church.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
Purcell’s stripped-down staging rarely visualizes Rivera’s depiction of a disintegrating city, redirecting focus to the dialogue’s poetic carnality, with everyone constantly worrying whether they’ll eat or be eaten.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2021
For all their freedoms and frank carnality, the movies of Hollywood’s pre-Code era — roughly 1929 to 1934 — were often about sacrifice.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2020
Central to the book is the tension between their shifts along the axes of cultural-philosophical speculation and carnality.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 5, 2015
That often seems to be charity which is rather carnality; for natural inclination, one's own will, the hope of reward, and the liking for comfort are rarely absent.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
