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carnality

[kahr-nal-i-tee] / ˌkɑrˈnæl ɪ ti /


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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

At the same time, a Roman Catholic religiosity, fusing spirituality with carnality, permeates much of his work.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2021

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

In O’Connor’s fictional world, carnality, when it comes up at all, is brutal and hilariously symbolic.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2001

The subject was "the exceeding sinfulness of sin," a proposition which I now see to be as true as if one lectured on the exceeding carnality of flesh.

From At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson


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