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
When a poem of hers, "Spring," was rejected — the editor found its style too "sensualist," à la Romantic poetry — she decided to send it to Seventeen magazine instead.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 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
The poor, shattered, self-consumed sensualist and sentimentalist paid dear in the 226 agonies of his closing years for the indulgences of an unregulated life.
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
