Sentence examples for carnal experience from inspiring English sources

Being known by Magda is a messy and unavoidably carnal experience.

The skin proved the perfect chewy foil to its inner silky mulch, turning it into a sensuous, almost carnal experience, which is as clear a sign as any that I don't get out enough.

In reimagining an iconic religious scene as a chance sexual encounter between gay lovers, the poem is something of a manifesto, declaring a commitment to truths both figurative and literal, to depictions of the vulnerably carnal, and to preserving experience and making meaning through verse.

The Washington Post declared Jackson's public image over the course of her career had shifted "from innocence to experience, inspiring such carnal albums as 1993's 'Janet' and 1997's 'The Velvet Rope', the latter of which explored the bonds figuratively and literally of love and lust".

Duras' insistence that we pay due homage to the past, and Resnais' exquisite adaptation of the written text also work hand-in-hand to affirm that in the end love, and not just the carnal kind that the stars experience here, but also love of beauty (of Nevers, of the human body and soul, of film itself) can overcome almost anything--even the memory of Hiroshima, once devastated and now rebuilt.

From first to last, her photographs play out a high-low struggle between innocence and experience, the spiritual and the carnal and the angelic and the demonic.

It includes the failure of a caregiver to provide for a child's basic needs, abandonment and exposing a child to danger [2] Under Jamaican law, children under 12 years cannot be charged with a crime [3] Major crimes include murder, shooting, robbery, larceny, carnal abuse and rape The high rates of crime and violence experienced in Jamaica significantly impact the lives of children.

They move simultaneously through the world of the divine and the world that we inhabit, and are subject to all the emotions and experiences that we humans are all too familiar with — including carnal desire.

Though she announces at the beginning of "Auto da Fay" that she's looking for the patterns of her own experience (and finds them), she's a woman so "rooted in the carnal and instinctive world" that she can hardly bend her life-so-far to a single narrative arc.

It chronicled the carnal activities of a single woman played by several actresses at different ages from her first experiences to her later assignations.

They also reject the Ṣūfī practice of mujāhadah ("struggle with the carnal self"), saying that excessive focusing on the self distracts from the more important goals of knowledge of God through personal experience and ultimate union.