(n.) The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ruth Carnall, former chief executive of NHS London.
(2) (The idea of the soul captivates gothic films from Dracula to The Devil Rides Out , though most tend to express that fascination through ssaults on the body, achieving carnality in sexual desire or in gore.)
(3) The plotting emerged from my own skipping, stumbling life as a just-out gay man in San Francisco, that veritable asparagus garden of carnal delights.
(4) He is masculine but defiantly anti-macho, and his unpanicked air of sexual fluidity has lent itself to a run of gay gangsters: he was Richard Burton's bit of rough in Villain , a carnally carnivorous mob boss in Sexy Beast , and a slinky, elegant hood in 44 Inch Chest .
(5) Under existing Ugandan law, anyone found guilty of "carnal knowledge against the order of nature" can already face sentences up to life imprisonment.
(6) If you’re sensing that the Mill is bored, or better yet, indifferent, or better yet, showing all the sullen ardour of a husband obliging himself to make love to his wife in the thick of a carnal indifference, then take your right hand, place it over your left shoulder and give yourself a big old pat on the back.
(7) This basic human state is further specified as primitive pleasure, primitive in that it is sensory, sensual, and carnal as compared to cognitive or esthetic in nature.
(8) He faced an almost immediate scandal when he was asked about a conference in Mykonos in Greece and replied: "I travelled and spent lots of time with people in Greece, many of whom were women, some of whom were known carnally to me.
(9) Coral reefs While we're on the subject of communal carnality, of entire species getting on the way God intended (if God was into the idea of group sex), the spinner dolphins have nothing on the corals of the Great Barrier Reef.
(10) The two albums that followed, I See A Darkness and Ease Down The Road, are his best, and most consistent, collections - the former dark and wintry; the latter, in contrast, is a veritable paean to the carnal joys of infidelity.
(11) Though the overpowering stink surely would have reduced carnal impulses.
(12) The medic from Hackney, Douglas Carnall, who writes in the British Medical Journal, summed up the feeling: "This issue is too important for one-offs.
(13) Updated at 1.05pm GMT 12.49pm GMT On the issue of maintaining support for difficult decisions, Dame Ruth Carnall, specialist adviser on health to the mayor of London, says having “an absolutely compelling case for change” is essential, as is clinical leadership.
(14) The distinctly Victorian nastiness of section 377 in fact forbids "carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal".
(15) And he agrees with Ruth Carnall (see previous update ) that once decisions have been made, they should be implemented swiftly: Get on with it - the longer you leave it, the worse it gets.
(16) Food and wine for Caravaggio are sensual metaphors, images of carnal pleasure.
(17) This sex-writing is convincing because it mixes the sublime with the carnal, the grossly physical with the spiritual – and all of it experienced as a shock, the longed-for consummation that one can't believe is really happening.
(18) For a culture so obsessed with carnality, songs that get it right are bizarrely few and far between: Madonna's Erotica, perhaps, or Marvin Gaye's I Want You, whose lyrics seduce while the music is already biting the pillow.
(19) Rappaccini will only release Beatrice from her hermetic isolation from the world and from the carnal knowledge men will give her, once he has "adapted" a suitor as biological propagator of his precious bloom.
(20) The reinstatement of a 153-year-old law passed under British rule and based on 16th-century English legislation means "carnal intercourse" between consenting adults of the same sex is once more defined as "unnatural" and punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
Prurience
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Pruriency
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps more interesting than the drop-off in erotic activity is the gleeful way that it is reported; a mixture of prurience and self-laceration driving these frantic swan songs for our sexual lives.
(2) Though it may seem far-fetched this sunny Saturday morning, future historians could judge that the wives and girlfriends, so long the objects of prurience and mockery, were indirectly the catalyst of a significant realignment.
(3) Patten rejected calls for the BBC to publish individual stars' salaries, saying that would risk encouraging "prurience".
(4) Suicide attracts speculation and prurience like flies to rotting food.
(5) "There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities," he argues.
(6) The adultery "may satisfy public prurience," he remarked, "but that is not a sufficient justification for interfering in the privacy rights of those involved."
(7) Where his previous porn film, as it were, had an undertow of sniggering prurience (to the extent that he appeared as an extra in a gay porno entitled Take A Peak), Twilight Of The Porn Stars is sombre and sympathetic.
(8) They are now pleading for a privacy law, supposedly to mark out that elusive divide between what is in the public's interest and what is of interest to the public, between accountability and prurience.
(9) Other peoples' salaries, at the best of times, are furtively conserved secrets, so it was with delicious prurience that we greeted an entire line-up of leaks which, within days, had been sorted into a hierarchy that found Mr Ross at the top of the heap.
(10) For all that it is strikingly nasty, The Fall is still subtle enough – sometimes, only remembering this or that bit of imagery afterwards, I’ve found myself eagerly complicit in its fevered prurience – to provide wriggle room for those who would defend it.
(11) Using the replies to a sexual attitude questionnaire developed by Eysenck given by 135 males (50 alcoholics, 50 matched normals and 35 sex offenders), item and factor analysis led to the composition of nine short scales measuring sexual satisfaction, heterosexual nervousness, sexual curiosity, tension and hostility, pruriency, sexual repression, heterosexual distaste and sexual promiscuity.
(12) There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities.
(13) Photograph: Courtesy of Gay Talese The Voyeur’s Motel quotes extensively from Foos’s compulsive observations, but Talese is at pains to present his memoir as much as a work of sociology as one of prurience.
(14) By coincidence the Sunday Times’ grisly annual ritual of materialistic prurience – the Rich List 2016 – was published just as the shadow finally fell across those low-paid BHS workers’ jobs and pensions.
(15) Which is funny when you think about the fact that he's made his name and fortune out of the nation's collective prurience.
(16) But if red-top values are the price we pay for an open society, I would rather that – with all the attendant controversy and prurience – over the closed minds bred by a less free press.
(17) Is he doing so to cater to our prurience, as when Huppert visits the peep show in The Piano Teacher and sniffs a semen-caked tissue she picks from a bin while watching a gross, grunting video of copulation?
(18) "If red-top values are the price we pay for an open society," Lebedev said, "then I would rather that, with all the attendant controversy and prurience, over the closed minds bred by a less free press."
(19) Dughan thought the belief exoneration of the strange prurience that endlessly turned on monoliths rutting miles down.
(20) Benignly billed as a “memoir”, it leaves a sense of grubby prurience, of things one would wish to but can never un-know and a bitter aftertaste.