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
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
For all their freedoms and frank carnality, the movies of Hollywood’s pre-Code era — roughly 1929 to 1934 — were often about sacrifice.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2020
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
The carnality of slavery has not yet ceased to bear fruit, as we all know.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp
