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carnality

[kahr-nal-i-tee] / ˌkɑrˈnæl ɪ ti /


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His songs married carnality and spirituality, with an echo of the little boy singing in the gospel choir of his father’s church.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

Purcell’s stripped-down staging rarely visualizes Rivera’s depiction of a disintegrating city, redirecting focus to the dialogue’s poetic carnality, with everyone constantly worrying whether they’ll eat or be eaten.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2021

Mr. Tiran’s moving, expressive performance during the possession has an acrobatic elasticity, with hints of Iggy Pop carnality and eyeball work indebted to Jack Nicholson.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2016

Central to the book is the tension between their shifts along the axes of cultural-philosophical speculation and carnality.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 5, 2015

Aestheticism and carnality are by no means as dissociate as the æsthete would have us believe.

From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by James Weir


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