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

Rajamouli is a cinematic sensualist, something not often seen or appreciated in the action genre.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 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

The excesses and failures of idealist theories of knowledge have always given rise in history to the opposite theory of sensualist nominalism, according to which our ideas are simply transformed sensations.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste