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

Among a population grossly ignorant and uneducated, sensualism prevails in its most appalling forms.

From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by Hart, John S. (John Seely)

One alone, in a fiercer glow of enthusiasm and with a doubtless finer sensualism, one alone attempts to offer up her life to a God!

From The Choice of Life by Leblanc, Georgette