sensualist
Example Sentences
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And Sorrentino, a dedicated sensualist, does allow himself some lighter touches, including, toward the end, a fanciful visual metaphor for a burdened man’s spirit that maybe only he could get away with.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2025
When a poem of hers, "Spring," was rejected — the editor found its style too "sensualist," à la Romantic poetry — she decided to send it to Seventeen magazine instead.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2022
The odes are so beautiful — and Keats’s image as a sensualist, an effete Romantic aesthete, so firmly established — that it is easy to overlook how philosophically accomplished and profound they are.
From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2021
Mr. Gyllenhaal’s Seurat may be routinely described as cold and distant, but he’s unmistakably a sensualist, too.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2017
To call him a spiritualist would, therefore, be as erroneous as to call him a sensualist.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich