carnality
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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
A garbled version of the Peter Pan story, it is set in a futuristic Manhattan and staged, by Jay Scheib, with carnality, exuberance and mess.
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2019
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
That often seems to be charity which is rather carnality; for natural inclination, one's own will, the hope of reward, and the liking for comfort are rarely absent.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
