What's the difference between carnalize and materialistic?
Carnalize
Definition:
(v. t.) To make carnal; to debase to carnality.
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.
Materialistic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Materialistical
Example Sentences:
(1) This is contrasted with the dialectical materialist concept of psychic phenomena as the highest integration level of man's relationship to the environment.
(2) One school of thought, the "eliminative materialistics," see FP as a misdirected and scientifically redundant approach to the mind which should be discarded; the "functionalists," in contrast, consider FP categories, such as belief, to be essential.
(3) Similarities between the notion of life style and concepts of cultural integration are noted, and the various uses of life style are categorized along an idealist-materialist continuum.
(4) In his excellent book Affluenza , Oliver James observes that Danes and Kiwis enjoy a greater immunity to our obsessive, depressive, materialistic world than do we in the UK.
(5) Yet there is Samantha, bawdy as the Wife of Bath, always cheerfully horny and materialistic, utterly without Calvinic redeeming qualities, living at last with her devoted younger boy toy in LA in the Sex and the City movie – finally leaving him because she is just not cut out to mix her driving, unmediated sexual energy with commitment.
(7) The search for a synthesis bridging the gap between materialist and idealist approaches in anthropological theory has been invigorated by recent efforts to develop a critical medical anthropology.
(8) The American spirit often has been attacked as atomistic, cruel, and materialistic.
(9) It is an oasis of humanity in a materialistic desert - and the leader of the Labour party should celebrate it.
(10) The one-to-many relationship between the displacement of the medium and the force actualized in the medium necessitates a materialistic capacity for making choices on the part of molecules and cells in transforming future possibilities into actualized reality, the latter of which again serves as the source of the further future possibilities.
(11) This reply to John F Catherwood's criticism of brain-related criteria for death argues that brainstem criteria are neither reductionist nor do they presuppose a materialist theory of mind.
(12) "I was very materialistic – it was all about having stuff and buying labels.
(13) Because Freud philosophically was committed to a materialistic, nonteleological, biologically based theory, he carried over into the new formulations some of the metapsychological assumptions of the earlier theory.
(14) "Zeitgeist" has been since the french revolution and still is agnostic, secularized and materialistic--also in the scholastic medical sciences: Presence and action of gods supernatural forces in all nature, including disease processes and healing has not been and is not recognized.
(15) Since then, while some mainstream rap has veered to the materialistic and misogynistic, there have always been successful rappers who have rallied against the vapid.
(16) Based on the premise of curing physical disease, the physician's approach to the patient is materialistic, activistic, and benevolently authoritarian.
(17) In this historical materialist analysis of health and medical care, health is defined as a component of labor-power (capacity to work).
(18) They (diviners) are believed to have become unduly materialistic and prone to dubious activities.
(19) But if in that period they became less materialistic, they became happier.
(20) Iain broke out of that dichotomy with all the panache of the spaceship exploding from inside another spaceship on the cover of Consider Phlebas, the first of his SF novels to be published, by writing of an expansive, optimistic possible future rooted in the same materialist and evolutionary view of life that had in the past been seen only as a dark background to cosmically futile strivings.