Sentence examples for carnal power from inspiring English sources

As Hunnicutt's buried conflicts come to light through his sons' rivalry, Mitchum's earthy physicality endows Minnelli's baroque flourishes with an aching carnal power.

Driven wild by the carnal power of Redcurrant Glory, he throws his love on the bed, pausing only to close the door on their creepy dog, which audibly moans when denied the opportunity to see humans enjoying positions evolution denies him.

An iconoclast who revels in the "carnal power of theatre", his highly controversial adaptation of Julius Caesar boasted a Mark Antony played by a cancer patient, who declaims the famous "Friends, Romans, countrymen" speech through the flapping blowhole in his post-tracheotomy neck.

You boasted of a countercultural gospel and yet fell into the same pitfalls of countless civilizations before you: a desire for carnal power, personal safety, comfort, luxury, fame, and wealth.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reported on Monday that it had obtained a copy of a complaint filed by ICE employees in San Diego that includes lurid details of carnal soirees as well as allegations of abuse of power.

The first song is a cover, after a fashion, of Willie Dixon's "My Babe Allisonon renames it "My Brain" and sets aside carnal concerns for cognitive ones ("My brain it's losing power / Twelve hundred neurons every hour").

In a letter of 1652 (That which is set up by the sword), he urged Friends not to use "carnal weapons" but "spiritual weapons", saying "let the waves [the power of nations] break over your heads".

For all his songs' steamy, carnal qualities, they possess a purity, an almost-holy faith in the power of the erotic that he shares with Prince.

The possibility of this freedom is founded on two principles that are active in every living thing: one, a dark primal foundation that manifests itself in carnal desire and impulse; the other, a clearheaded sensibleness that governs as a formative power.

Scorsese's vision of power also involves humiliation; his understanding of wealth isn't just luxurious and carnal, it's also excremental, sanguinary, emetic, carnivalesque, and violent.

Roth might never have been Alexander Portnoy, but the inventor of Alexander Portnoy, unless he was a studious lizard from outer space with limitless powers of telepathic imagination, was a male human being well schooled in carnal relationships with women.