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carnal

[kahr-nl] / ˈkɑr nl /


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But for all his uses of food as a source of carnal provocation and capitalist fracturing, Bong also allows food to be the root of love and community.

From Salon Mar. 25, 2025

Or, ‘Hey carnal, do I go along with the program?’

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 14, 2024

“Julia” makes much of Child’s embrace of the sensual — French food and wine, and carnal pleasure — and the journey is told most convincingly through snapshots.

From Washington Post Nov. 16, 2021

They provide a bridge between our carnal nature and their incorporeal institutions.

From New York Times Aug. 6, 2021

How much happier he must have been than when driving hither and thither, scheming and dissembling, and floundering from one device of carnal wisdom to another!

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie




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