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

Now, what you’ve got is something closer to the colorblind wish fulfillment of the Shonda Rhimes streaming universe, minus the wink-wink, side-eye and carnality.

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

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

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

Weakened by internal feuds, with two Popes struggling and hurling anathemas at each other, and with a priesthood at its lowest point, not of ignorance, but of carnality, it seemed in peril of utter extinction.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various