Sentence examples for carnal yearning from inspiring English sources

Mr. Davies is well known for giving minor characters their humorous due; he is even better known for spicing up the most strait-laced classics with hints of sex and carnal yearning.

The stories connect, one to another, with threads sewn deep: A tale of quiet despair, by Jerry Moriarty, leads to another of genteel solitude by Ben Katchor; a memoir of childlike sexless love by Chester Brown leads us to one of frantic carnal yearning by Joe Matt.

Cheever's flickering back and forth between a yearning for light and the destructive lure (alcoholic, carnal) of darkness is rendered on a scale at once "ingrown" and vast.

Carnelian is from "carnal".

Sodomy, noncoital carnal copulation.

Carnal knowledge, naked.

Sexual yearning?

It's carnal.

Innocent or carnal?

But no carnal spark ignites.

Her work celebrates carnal pleasure.