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
Rajamouli is a cinematic sensualist, something not often seen or appreciated in the action genre.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 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
Whippet-thin and strait-laced, he stands in dour contrast to Neruda, a plump sensualist with a robust sense of mischief and appetite for pleasure.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2017
Obsolete Theories of Knowledge Formerly three explanations of our knowledge prevailed in philosophy: the hypothesis of a primitive revelation; the idealist theory; and the sensualist theory.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste
