fleshly

Example Sentences

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In early Christianity, spiritual warfare meant one was to resist the Devil by engaging in forms of ascetic behavior, mastering fleshly desires, and cultivating Christian virtues like humility, self-control, and love of enemies.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2024

It is almost a renunciation, as if we could cede the part of ourselves that relies on fleshly sustenance so that only the essential remains.

From New York Times • May 11, 2022

“There were some fleshly remains and the odor was so foul,” the villager said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2021

What if the fear of machines “like us” masks a deeper terror, the terror of machine agency that disdains language and exceeds fleshly containment?

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

My heart beat thickly in mine ears; The lids may shut out fleshly fears, But still the spirit sees and hears,— Its eyes are lidless, Rosaline!

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell