sensualistic
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
It remained for the Scottish school under Thomas Reid to combat both the sensualistic philosophy of Voltaire and Locke, and the skepticism of Hume.
From The Interdependence of Literature by Curtis, Georgina Pell
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)
All there in that old world, lit "by the strong vertical light" of Homer's genius, is healthful, sharply-defined, tangible, definite, and sensualistic.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
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
The religion of Hellas was the religion of sensualistic beauty simply.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
