visceral

Example Sentences

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At once visceral, sensitive and deeply moving, it directly confronts both the weight of historical trauma and the challenge of representing it.

From The Wall Street Journal

I didn’t know why it affected me, but it really did in a visceral and confusing way.

From Los Angeles Times

Listen to Girl Feels Good: A visceral ode to empowerment, femininity and healing on the dancefloor.

From BBC

Impressive world building gives a visceral texture to the environment that reflects the prickly emotions by those used, abused and cast off, who then reclaim their power by banding together.

From Salon

“When people feel badly, they can be prone to wanting to make themselves feel better through consuming food, drink, vacations, shopping — visceral pleasures.”

From MarketWatch