sensualist

Example Sentences

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And Sorrentino, a dedicated sensualist, does allow himself some lighter touches, including, toward the end, a fanciful visual metaphor for a burdened man’s spirit that maybe only he could get away with.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2025

Rajamouli is a cinematic sensualist, something not often seen or appreciated in the action genre.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2022

Bourdain, who died almost exactly three years ago at the age of 61, was many things — chef, sensualist, addict, world traveler — any one of which could have served as the movie’s lodestar.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2021

The odes are so beautiful — and Keats’s image as a sensualist, an effete Romantic aesthete, so firmly established — that it is easy to overlook how philosophically accomplished and profound they are.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2021

But he is neither a mere soldier nor a mere sensualist.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil