carnality

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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

Of all memoir’s five elements, carnality is the most primary and necessary and—luckily for me as a teacher—the most easy to master.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 11, 2015

This earthliness and carnality of our hearts makes them like the earth, receive only the light in the upper and outward superfice, and not suffer it to be transmitted into our hearts to change them.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh