sensualist

Example Sentences

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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

Choosing “Like a Rolling Stone” instead implies “I’m just as good friends with Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize-winning poet, as that naughty, bum-wiggling sensualist Mick Jagger.”

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2022

When a poem of hers, "Spring," was rejected — the editor found its style too "sensualist," à la Romantic poetry — she decided to send it to Seventeen magazine instead.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2022

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

In Walter Scott, women appear as romance in a cheap edition; Byron in their regard is a beast of prey, Doctor Johnson a pompous brute and a puritanical sensualist.

From The Intelligence of Woman by George, Walter Lionel