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Discover LudwigThe phrase "carnal lust" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing physical desire or sexual passion, often with a connotation of primal or base instincts.
Example: "The novel explored the theme of carnal lust, depicting the characters' struggles with their desires."
Alternatives: "sexual desire" or "physical passion."
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One of Pope Leo IX's emissaries to the Eastern Orthodox Church in Constantinople in 1054 reported disapprovingly, "Young husbands, just now exhausted from carnal lust, serve at the altar.
The 135-minute picture takes its time to set up the courtship, one based on mutual respect and artistic admiration as much as carnal lust.
Many believed that the first sin committed after Eve tasted the forbidden fruit was carnal lust.
As it is stated in Malleus Maleficarum: "All witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable".
Malleus Maleficarum, published in 1486, said: "All witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable".
Although a Protestant convert, Lennox was distrusted by Scottish Calvinists, who noticed the physical displays of affection between favourite and king and alleged that Lennox "went about to draw the King to carnal lust".
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Carnal lusts enflame his graffiti paintings of the 1960s; even in his late works, he is still mourning love, summoning up lost beauties.
Carnal desire, lust, and pleasure, on the other hand, are always morally bad.
Rati is the Hindu goddess of love, carnal desire, lust, passion and sexual pleasure.
There is no sex at all in these diaries and not much lust, carnal or otherwise.
She glides through the store in a single shot that's as graceful as it is sexy, an assertively carnal dance of capitalist lust — one that the traumatized Quell can't make good on any more than he can make money.
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