Sentence examples for about carnal from inspiring English sources

The poems were all about "carnal love," she said.

There was no need, they said, to worry about carnal sins — they belonged, with the body, to the devil.

Getting sophisticated about carnal writing means selecting sensual data — items, odors, sounds — to recount details based on their psychological effects on a reader.

Once it has been contaminated, the ripest fantasy out of a Victoria's Secret catalog can't overcome an underlying squeamishness about carnal behavior.

But the chief pleasure lies in seeing a play that TS Eliot thought to be about "carnal infatuation" turned into a study of the irresistible force of rampant passion.

It would be invidious to say it didn't cross my mind that some people might pretend to be surprised that a former Blue Peter presenter would know anything about carnal relations, much less write about them.

In this film, it's not about a carnal love, it's about its essence.

After her first experience of love-making with Vronsky, she murmurs, "You have murdered my happiness", a subtle and complicated sentiment that shortly becomes: "So this is love … This!" Stoppard believes that "what Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea".

In reality, however, the only education Celeste cares about is carnal.

As in other novels of love and loyalty in a time of conflict — Nadine Gordimer's "Burger's Daughter," Michael Ondaatje's "English Patient" or Shirley Hazzard's "Great Fire" — there is a palpable urgency here about the carnal and the sexual.

Such revelations make sexual conspirators of us all; in their aftermath, we huddle in corners, conversing in overheated undertones -- reflecting some complex mixture of amusement, discomfort and awe -- about irregular carnal encounters.