What's the difference between primal and sensual?

Primal


Definition:

  • (a.) First; primary; original; chief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The psychological-interpersonal movement into triangulated oedipal object relations is mediated by the elaboration of mature forms of primal scene fantasies in conjunction with the development of a "transitional oedipal relationship" to the mother.
  • (2) The concept of the primal scene is in need of redefinition and clarification.
  • (3) This hypothesis is akin to Freud's theory of primal fantasies.
  • (4) It’s all well and good standing in a gallery and stroking your chin, but if you cast your eyes to the left and summon the concentration it takes to read the little rectangle of artistic blurb next to it, all of that context and explanation really helps transform that weird bit of twisted wire your kid could make into something deep and primal pulled from the soul.
  • (5) Brown went on to create six albums, bassist Mani joined Primal Scream, while Squire, who created the artwork for the band's first album, formed the short-lived Seahorses before deciding to concentrate on art.
  • (6) The movie excels in its many trading-floor sequences, great chaotic indoor crowd-scenes worthy of Raoul Walsh, in which we can glimpse the primal, quasi-animalistic governing urges that propel an unregulated – that's to say, totally lawless – free-market economy, as the hawks are granted licence to feast upon the sparrows.
  • (7) The issue of the analyst's and the patient's conviction concerning reconstructions that attempt to reach across the "primal repression barrier" is discussed.
  • (8) As infants are forced by experience to give up the 'internal illusion' of primal identification with the powerful mother, the sense of helplessness that ensues leads to secondary identification to create an 'external illusion' of oneness with the mother during heightened stress or tension.
  • (9) Her theory of the role of the primal object for the baby, as the provider of necessary psychological containment, a kind of psychological skin, has proven to be of great value for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists treating adults and children with skin problems.
  • (10) Direct emergence of primal repression is a threat to life and its activation is therefore risky.
  • (11) He has also recently completed a short film with Butterworth – The Clear Road Ahead , for Film Four, a story about a businessman who undergoes a kind of primal transformation in the woods – and is eager to do more screen work, if he can find the right script (though Jerusalem, he insists, will not be it: "We don't think it would be better than the thing that happens on stage").
  • (12) I can remember the beginning and the last few gigs with Primal Scream but everything else is interchangeable.
  • (13) The Pulitzer-winning novelist Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, joined the campaign "because censorship is the primal enemy of the artist and of a democratic society.
  • (14) Zimmerman drove traffic at the former site with what the Wall Street Journal described as "a deep connection to his audience's evolving, irreducibly human, primal sensibilities".
  • (15) Freud's initial notions accentuated the inhibiting, punitive aspects of the paternal representation, highlighting, as they did, the oedipal father of the primal horde.
  • (16) "I was just stunned that we won because the prize was in its infancy and people assumed it was an indie award [Primal Scream and Suede had won previously].
  • (17) Special attention is given to age and reactions at time of initial awareness of parents' sexual relationship and at time of any possible primal-scene witnessing, beliefs about parents' present sex lives, and interviewees' own ideas of how their parents' sexual attitudes and relationship may have influenced them.
  • (18) The importance of family-relationship patterns as determinants of reactions to primal-scene experience is emphasized.
  • (19) There are few reports about the methods, amounts, and kinds of dosage about intermittent intra-arterial chemotherapy of liver metastases from primal pathological type's squamous cell carcinoma.
  • (20) Carcass yield traits included preslaughter, abdominal fat, giblet, pelt, visceral and carcass weights and dressing percentage; lean yield traits consisted of uncooked lean percentages from forequarter, hindquarter and loin primal cuts, adjusted total lean weight and overall meat to bone ratio.

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.