Sentence examples for bodily pleasure from inspiring English sources

True, sexual intercourse as Augustine knew from long experience with his mistress and others is the greatest bodily pleasure.

Their conversation, serene and joyful, led them to the conclusion that no bodily pleasure, no matter how great, could ever match the happiness of the saints.

Alumnus Eddie Hazel also reconnected with Funkadelic for the track, joining with guitarist Gary Shider and a choir of soulful backing vocals to deliver a lyric caught between asceticism and bodily pleasure, ultimately plumping for the latter ("The preacher keeps promisin' satisfaction / The ladies keep giving up the gratifaction").

Stumpf claims that there is a specific difference between sense-feelings (bodily pleasure, pain, etc).

Malebranche sometimes suggested that disordered love of bodily pleasure derives from self-love.

We are to imagine someone in the throes of the greatest possible bodily pleasure (sexual orgasm?).

She forever jettisoned the idea, Ms. Kaplan writes, "that the life of the mind excluded bodily pleasures".

Bodily pleasures (and pains) are more intense than those of the mind.

It is a shout for bodily pleasures and sensuality, sometimes to the point of silliness.

Certainly, fasting and withdrawal from bodily pleasures are hardly exclusive to Christianity.

A shout for bodily pleasures Rist's art is a great corrective to the pieties, decorum and conceptual heavy breathing of current "serious" art.