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
It is sensualism expressed as, and sanctioned by, religious conviction that is the vital fact of the situation.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen
Some sink over the other side of the horse, and drop into utter sloth and pampered sensualism; but others do their best to ride well, and sometimes succeed.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various