sensualist

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Gael Greene, the New York magazine critic, wrote in 1991 that while the restaurant had once been New York’s most overrated, “for cuisinary snobs and postgraduate sensualists, the Sign of the Dove is suddenly home.”

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2013

As an intellectual gadfly, he makes a compassionate statement for all the mavericks and pariahs who refuse to become, in Max Weber's phrase, "specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart."

From Time Magazine Archive

Error exists, he tells us, and common sense will readily agree, although the fact is not unquestionable, and pure mystics and pure sensualists deny it.

From Character and Opinion in the United States by Santayana, George

Though Lord Byron's mind was one of these, he escaped the fearful results by a still greater effort of his reason, which made him reject the precepts of the sensualists, and comprehend their inconsistencies.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir

We wrong many people by dubbing them mere sensualists.

From December Love by Hichens, Robert Smythe