sensualism
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Hung, a French Vietnamese filmmaker whose eye for cinematic sensualism was on display in early works like “The Scent of Green Papaya” and “Cyclo,” here achieves something of a culinary contact high.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023
Miserablism and sensualism pair elegantly in this collaboration between FKA twigs and the Weeknd.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021
The question of spiritual discipline has long been present in his writing: self-denial versus sensualism, the path of Jesus versus that of Byron.
From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2013
These are nominalism and sensualism, empiricism and a-posteriorism, which, setting themselves against epistemological rationalism, assail the dignity, the independence, and the autonomy of the thinking mind.
From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf
Thereby, then, we return by a detour to skepticism to which sensualism conducts us directly, and at less expense.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.