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fleshliness

noun as in physicality

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With her singular combination of flintiness and fleshliness, Léa Seydoux is among the contemporary screen’s most compelling performers.

As he had told Gabrielle, to obtain complete mastery over this wavering specimen of fleshliness it was necessary that the leading-rein should be held by a woman; and--without fault of his--the abb� chanced to be a man.

But to Forbes there was an overpowering fleshliness in the display.

He was austere towards priests like Padre Martinez, the bison-shouldered Mexican at Taos, brazen in fleshliness.

Though perhaps, if we could search a little more deeply, we should see that each type of character has its own peculiar class of difficulties and temptations; and that the most beautiful and saintlike have their dread perils of shipwreck, which make their course as arduous as that of the souls which bear about with them a great load of fleshliness and groan under the bondage of tyrannous passions and lusts.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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