Sentence examples for form of carnal from inspiring English sources

Yeats transcended the erotic, suggesting that "to know" is not just a euphemism for sex but also the worst form of carnal knowledge — a realization that the moment of conception can also augur ill.

In another life, this heavy shaft of flesh had been his source of carnal pleasure.

Accordingly, apes were widely used in the Middle Ages as symbols not merely of ugliness but of carnal desire; they displayed in an exaggerated form the vice that contributed to our own fall.

Two distinct forms of desire — the carnal type and the kind that involves granite countertops — have been known to intermingle, but perhaps never more so than now.

Collapsing the masculinist art form of sculpture into something organic and ripely carnal, she is the spider of subversion weaving a web that has transformed the very nature of art.

Gaye wanted to "drain himself of carnal distraction".

He found both men guilty of "carnal knowledge" that was "against the order of nature".

Graham considered a primary benefit of his diet to be the curbing of carnal urges.

For the last, lingering touch, a dab of Carnal Flower perfume by Frédéric Malle.

An etching needle beats a brush at detailing the insults of carnal fact to egoist fancy.

" — not for the sex, but for its portrayal of carnal desire from a teenage girl's point of view.