fleshly
Example Sentences
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In early Christianity, spiritual warfare meant one was to resist the Devil by engaging in forms of ascetic behavior, mastering fleshly desires, and cultivating Christian virtues like humility, self-control, and love of enemies.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024
“There were some fleshly remains and the odor was so foul,” the villager said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
But a pandemic re-corporealizes us all, re-rooting everyone, including men, in fleshly reality in all its precarity.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2020
What if the fear of machines “like us” masks a deeper terror, the terror of machine agency that disdains language and exceeds fleshly containment?
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019
But if he was only reasoning from the wee bit of earth he knew, was he not speaking of things he had not seen, being vainly puffed-up in his fleshly mind?
From My Path to Atheism by Besant, Annie Wood
