sensualistic

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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)

Schleiermacher here alludes to the sensualistic aestheticians of the eighteenth century, and to Hegel, who had almost identified art and religion.

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

We fear that even the confession of sensualistic atheism by Solovieff will not prevent his memory from being cherished by thousands of his countrymen.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

I will not seek whether the sensualistic metaphysics can arrive at an infinite being, author of the universe and man.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

The religion of Hellas was the religion of sensualistic beauty simply.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various