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

Now, what you’ve got is something closer to the colorblind wish fulfillment of the Shonda Rhimes streaming universe, minus the wink-wink, side-eye and carnality.

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

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

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

We only know divine love through human love: human love is divine when it is unselfish and eternal—not fed upon carnality, but anchored in spiritual complement.

From Cosmic Consciousness by McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)