"carnal" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is related to physical, often sexual, pleasure and gratification. For example: Many people sought carnal satisfaction in the night club.
Section 377 of the Malaysian penal code, which criminalises "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" is a relic of the country's days as a British colony.
Kapoor is an artist who defies the classical rules of symmetry and order that prevail at Versailles: an artist of carnal mayhem and rollicking cosmic comedy.
In July 2009 a high court ruled that the ban on "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" in the penal code violated India's constitution, a ruling which in effect decriminalised gay sex.
In London she saw the "brat-pack" sort of art in "Sensation" (Royal Academy until December 28th) and found it, people say, obscene and commercial".Sensation" is carnal, painful and "in your face".
In the ensuing carnal scuffle, where the odds are stacked firmly against the male, biologist Stephanie Zimmer and her colleagues from the University of Hamburg and Macquire University in Sydney point to a silver lining.
She has a succinct descriptive knack: "She tried to compose an expression of intelligence on her face, which had lapsed into an aspect of carnal vegetation".
Poetry became her way of controlling the uncontrollable, and of communicating her experience to the few readers with whom she shared her manuscripts.If the poet's celebrated spirituality was in fact rooted in her physical body, her domestic life too, as Ms Gordon reveals, was rather more dominated by the carnal than has been supposed.
Argentina's president, Néstor Kirchner, champions Mercosur partly to distinguish himself from predecessors who sought "carnal relations" with the United States.
Peter Gilmore, LaVey's successor as head of the Church of Satan, distinguishes between "carnal people and spiritual people": he believes the latter need a "spooky daddy in the sky", whereas he is "happy being the center of [his] universe".
The Saint Sebastian Preti undertook for the high altar of a Naples chapel was roundly rejected by the nuns who had commissioned it: they were scandalised by its frankly carnal aspect.
These have involved a break with Mr Menem's pursuit of "carnal relations" with the United States a stance derided by Rafael Bielsa, the new foreign minister.
