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sensualist

[sen-shoo-uh-list] / ˈsɛn ʃu ə lɪst /
NOUN
sexy person
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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

Rajamouli is a cinematic sensualist, something not often seen or appreciated in the action genre.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2022

Yet the concentration and physiological specificity with which he embodied characters, from power-hungry medieval monarchs to a 20th-century sensualist painter, made you tense up in anatomical empathy.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 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

Obsolete Theories of Knowledge Formerly three explanations of our knowledge prevailed in philosophy: the hypothesis of a primitive revelation; the idealist theory; and the sensualist theory.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier


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