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After the melancholy party had stayed there for some time, Monsieur Tournevau remarked: 'This isn't very cheerful, is it?' Unable to lose themselves in carnality and frolics, the men must confront reality, which Maupassant presents as a yawning void filled with monotonous echoes.
Ms Knox's philosophical scheme defies brief summary: like a witty, post-modern Milton, she rewrites the Christian myth and the whole cosmology of "Paradise Lost".But at the centre of the novel remains the relationship between Jodeau and the angel, extended to include Aurore, the lady of the chateau, to create a trinity in which the permutations of love and carnality can flourish without guilt.
His singing style has been described as "church-trained," and, though faith has been a recurring theme in his lyrics, such early singles as "Sex Me" (1993) established carnality at the centre of his music.
In his Ragionamenti (1534 36; modern edition, 1914; "Discussions"), Roman prostitutes reveal to each other the moral failings of many important men of their city, and in I dialoghi and other dialogues he continues the examination of carnality and corruption among Romans.
The book was vigorously attacked for its "feverish carnality "—Punch referred to the poet as "Mr. Swineborn"—though it was enthusiastically welcomed by the younger generation.
No longer is it the sorry tale of a lost orphan come to London and beguiled by thoughts of carnality.
The Queen's doting on this donkey is more at the girlish devotion to My Little Pony end of the spectrum than the cross-species carnality you get in some productions.
Her glossily-shot initiation into carnality ("It looks," said Time Out, "like a softcore version of The Story of O commissioned by Vogue magazine") may sound dreadful now but was considered very chic in 1974 – the Cinquante Nuances de Gris of its day.
He sees Cruz as a graduate from the "Mediterranean school of acting... a style characterised by its carnality , messy hair, generous cleavage and shouting as a natural form of communication".
In Christianity, it is not a transcendent, divine being that takes on the appearance of an earthly corporeality, so as to be manifested through this semblance of a body; instead, God himself as human, as member of a definite people, a definite family, at a certain time—"suffered under Pontius Pilate"—enters into the corporeality, carnality , and materiality of the history of mankind.
The first story is a flowing tide of sex and carnality ; the second is dominated by a holy river of life and death, the Ganges.
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The noun "carnality" primarily functions as a descriptor of a state or quality , referring to the predominance of physical desires . Ludwig shows its use in various contexts, such as describing art, motivations, or general societal tendencies.
Expression frequency: Very common
