The word 'fleshly' is correct and can be used in written English
It means relating to or characteristic of the physical body or human desires and pleasures. You can use it when describing physical desires or pleasures in a more formal or literary context, instead of saying 'bodily' or 'physical'. Example: The novel explores the protagonist's inner struggle between his spiritual beliefs and his fleshly desires for wealth and power.
This illusory state of detachment can become addictive as we isolate ourselves a safe distance from the cruelty of our fleshly lives, where we are flawed, powerless and inconsequential.
But his problems got much worse when the police proceeded to arrest Mr Srinivasan's son-in-law, Gurunath Meiyappan, the Super Kings' boss, and charge him with cheating, forgery and fraud.The IPL, which uses cricket's snappy T20 format and relies heavily on Bollywood stars and fleshly cheerleaders with pompoms for its appeal, is no stranger to crisis.
His images, with their emphasis on redemption through fleshly mortification, suggest sources in heroic epics and penitential religion, filtered through Sade and extreme sports.
Nuts was initially less fleshly.
See also fleshly school of poetry.
And in their comic opera Patience, Gilbert and Sullivan based the character Bunthorne, a "fleshly poet," partly on Wilde.
Here, the tonsured scholar stretches out with a miniature crucifix next to a mammoth rotting strawberry: a symbol of fleshly lusts, the Bosch analysts suggest.
The web of entrapment surrounding our poor fleshly prosecutor is complete.
The purpose of the Orphic ritual was to confer divine life sacramentally on its initiates so that they might attain immortality through regeneration and reincarnation, thereby freeing the soul from its fleshly bondage.
And, after P.E., the nasty underground shower room with its concentrated citrus-rot stink of female sweat, its fleshly angsts, its tin-pot team spirit, the gloom of girls passed over, the P.E.
The film that the director Danny Boyle and the screenwriter Simon Beaufroy have made from Aron Ralston's memoir, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place," is an existential comedy of the most fleshly and painful sort.
