carnal

He sought refuge in the church to escape his own carnal longings and found condemnation everywhere, including in the mirror.

He told me, “Hey carnal, I’m going to invite you to be on my album.”

But the texting and blocking, the free-for-all backwaters of the internet and the carnal shenanigans that color contemporary TV teendom do put a different complexion on growing up.

The next, their gasps and grunts turn carnal, almost violent.

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.