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 was strange and incongruous in aspect,—a sort of conglomeration of sensualism, religious ideas, and Buddhist idols.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
Sen′sion, the becoming aware of being affected from without in sensation; Sen′sism, sensualism in philosophy; Sen′sist, a sensationalist.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
