physicality

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Recent Examples of physicality Miller has a thin frame and struggles with physicality. John Hollinger, New York Times, 20 June 2026 Carlo Ancelotti, speaking at a press conference on Thursday at the Philadelphia Stadium, said the matchup between Haiti and Scotland was balanced and praised the Haitians’ physicality. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 June 2026 Eurocamp gives players a chance to compete against different styles, different levels of physicality and prospects from all over the world. Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026 Beginning with the pilot, there’s also been an appealing restlessness to Kate, a loose physicality and prideful disregard for glamour. David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for physicality
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Noun
  • The playing of music in seventeenth-century genre paintings often suggests sensuality and pleasure of an easy, familiar kind.
    Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • Beneath all the sensuality and beauty, there’s also a lingering melancholy that feels very familiar to me.
    Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • The rich textures and thick ambiance of The Eyes of Others are pure high modernist 1960s Italian cinema, but De Sica unfurls the film’s winding intrigues with a contemporary sense of suspense, carnality, and visual boldness.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026
  • But as Maud's God begins to talk back, and her desperate pleas for divine intervention send her into fits of orgasmic fervor and desperate carnality, Glass hints at the depths of mania powering the nurse's dedication.
    Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In other words, humans can act against the animal component of their nature and manifest their humanity by rejecting their animality.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Nov. 2025
  • This strangeness causes all sorts of internal agitation, an uneasiness about humanity’s closeness to animality.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025

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“Physicality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/physicality. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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