Sentence examples for carnal longing from inspiring English sources
At times, you can feel him reaching so high to incorporate into his work both a spiritual and a carnal longing for love that you fear he'll topple over.
By trapping Tristan so completely within an unresolved daddy drama from childhood, the opera's more adult-oriented obsessions with death and carnal longing (and their mixture) is severely blunted.
This was Mrs VA's day to shine, from the hilarious, pitiable surprise of: "Oh Nelson… I thought you didn't believe in gifts" to the carnal longing on her face when he'd wiped the floor with the unlucky man who tried to serve them champagne.
Or St Augustine – that charming medieval chap who coined the concept of original sin, and said humanity was condemned by its carnal longing – this was when he wasn't busy with his concubine and his 11-year-old fiance, of course.
Perhaps this is why, two years into parenthood, when I've finally got this "being married with child" thing sort of down -- when I am at last skiing smoothly on a sole ski -- I am feeling this deep, carnal longing to welcome a second ski -- er, baby -- and completely unbalance my finally functional family system.
After the last couple of years of bedroom producers churning out strangely sexless beats, it makes sense that musicians are swapping cerebral leanings for carnal longings.
Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.
But the women and men longing for, and sometimes achieving, carnal bliss (with their own sex as well as the opposite) do so in the midst of preparing to perform the story of the crucifixion.
Libraries generate longing.
