What's the difference between fleshpot and sensual?

Fleshpot


Definition:

  • (n.) A pot or vessel in which flesh is cooked
  • (n.) plenty; high living.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It felt romantic, in an unflashy way, without a hint of fleshpot about it.
  • (2) But in Westeros, the medieval-ish land of fleshpot diplomacy and lethal realpolitik described in George RR Martin 's fantasy doorstops, there's a high degree of natural wastage.

Sensual


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.
  • (a.) Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly.
  • (a.) Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous.
  • (a.) Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Strict fundamentalists oppose music in any form as a sensual distraction - the Taliban, of course, banned music in Afghanistan.
  • (2) Back then, the entire city felt drenched in sensuality, and so did my home.
  • (3) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
  • (4) Even more graphically than Picasso’s Women of Algiers with their multiple breasts and bums, Nu couché is a sensual masterpiece – and far more conventionally so than anything Picasso painted.
  • (5) Let’s leave that discussion to another day, but imagine a combination of the two – sort of Transformers meets Ex Machina – in which a race of giant sexy robots battles it out with another race of really mean giant sexy robots while paltry human beings look on in awe, and teenage boys (and girls) experience incredibly conflicting and disturbing sensual awakenings in the front row of the Beckenham Odeon.
  • (6) Such myths were transformed by Renaissance artists such as Titian into alluring sensual painting.
  • (7) The only quality she seems to have, in his eyes, is a sensual body.
  • (8) "What I find most inspiring is how she expresses her sensuality," says Mara Carlyle, who made one of last year's most critically lauded albums, Floreat.
  • (9) And I began to wonder what a language might sound like that was not cool but hot, that was noisy and crowded and vulgar and sensual in a way that the Indian reality is.
  • (10) Pain is both sensual perception and sense of touch, and it leads to emotional change of health, which has an effect back to a pain perception.
  • (11) Like the American revolution and the French revolution, like the three major dictatorships of the 20th century – I say "major" because there have been more, Cambodia and Romania among them – and like the New England Puritan regime before it, Gilead has utopian idealism flowing through its veins, coupled with a high-minded principle, its ever-present shadow, sublegal opportunism, and the propensity of the powerful to indulge in behind-the-scenes sensual delights forbidden to everyone else.
  • (12) The secondary effects of Ecstasy were the stimulant effects of energy and activation, and the psychedelic effects of insight and perceptual and sensual enhancement.
  • (13) And Push had been very much part of that, it's such a sensual and sensitive way of dancing with another person.
  • (14) Gary organises a pre-surgery workshop about the mental transition needed from lingering trauma to embracing sensuality, and sends them all home with a vibrator.
  • (15) She was someone sensual, her skin being finally woken and properly explored.
  • (16) A sensual conspiracy fuels a virulent nostalgia, and the Cuban propensity for exaggeration ensures that it never dies.
  • (17) As she says, it “pushes the boundaries of what a carpet can be; turning it from this solidly domestic material into this sensual, cobra-like being.” The impetus to create a carpet – something Sterling has never done before – came from her stay in 2012 at the apartments in east London’s Raven Row .
  • (18) The Sensual World was originally intended as a direct lift of Molly Bloom’s monologue from James Joyce’s Ulysses , but Bush was forced to write her own lyrics when she was denied permission to quote the source material.
  • (19) It’s easy enough to hear the sensuality, of course, but to spot the undercurrent that makes her pierce you as much as soothe and seduce you, that’s getting more to the heart of her.
  • (20) Locals come here to kick off their weekend with a few cocktails, such as the Luchador Belt and the Chocolate Sensual.

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