carnality
Example Sentences
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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
In O’Connor’s fictional world, carnality, when it comes up at all, is brutal and hilariously symbolic.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2001
Weakened by internal feuds, with two Popes struggling and hurling anathemas at each other, and with a priesthood at its lowest point, not of ignorance, but of carnality, it seemed in peril of utter extinction.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various
