sensualism

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Hung, a French Vietnamese filmmaker whose eye for cinematic sensualism was on display in early works like “The Scent of Green Papaya” and “Cyclo,” here achieves something of a culinary contact high.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023

Miserablism and sensualism pair elegantly in this collaboration between FKA twigs and the Weeknd.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021

The question of spiritual discipline has long been present in his writing: self-denial versus sensualism, the path of Jesus versus that of Byron.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2013

These are nominalism and sensualism, empiricism and a-posteriorism, which, setting themselves against epistemological rationalism, assail the dignity, the independence, and the autonomy of the thinking mind.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

It cut the roots equally of idealism and sensualism, and was eagerly received by thoughtful men in Europe and in this country.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert