as in sensuality
excessive pursuit of fleshly pleasures
a rich playboy who was undone by his own carnality
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Noun
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Featuring sensual stylings and formfitting silhouettes, Perry’s designs cater to a feminine sensibility with a mix of sensuality and contemporary playfulness.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
17 Oct. 2025 -
But ideas, too, carry passion, sensuality, and even body memory; a tweed untransfigured by ideas of desire is just a tweed.—
Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This obsession with efficiency and greed — that’s what’s driving AI.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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In his new book, 1929, Sorkin takes the most famous stock crash in history and turns it into a thrilling saga of greed, folly, and despair that resonates with present times.—
Jim Kelly,
Air Mail,
11 Oct. 2025
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Here, Stamp is pitted against a smarmy California counterpart played by another counterculture screen legend — Peter Fonda, of Easy Rider fame — and both men show how much the optimistic hedonism of the ’60s has soured.—
Christina Newland,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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Dwarfing like a royal Turkish palace along the glittering shores of Belek—Regnum The Crown is a utopia of hedonism and millennial chic.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Carnality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carnality. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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