sensualistic

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It's only too easy to write for those avid of sentimentalism, or to express what Thomas Huxley calls "sensualistic caterwauling."

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

Kant appeared, and condemned alike the intellectualist and the sensualistic error; but placing the beautiful in a symbol of morality, he failed to discover the imaginative absoluteness of taste.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

One thing is certain, we cannot go back to the old dogmatic standpoint, whether rationalistic or sensualistic.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

The fact, however, rather confirms the force of Stein's remark, for the Hegelian idealism first bred the more sensualistic system of humanism, and then humanism bred socialism.

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John

The history of Hearn's ghoulish pleasure in the gruesome and sensualistic, runs from the tan-yard horror and Cincinnati reportorial days, through the translated stories of the New Orleans epoch, to his "St. Anthony."

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)