Word: carnal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your story, we are told that the Albigensians adopted a "strict, other worldly practice of Christianity, and were virtually exterminated by the church." Do you consider that advocacy of suicide is "strict, otherworldly practice of Christian ity"? Are you in favor of the Albigensian doctrine of concubinage and unrestrained carnal actions, as "strict and otherworldly Chris tianity"? . . . If the Albigensian heresy had triumphed, it would have meant the destruc tion of civilization through the ruination of the home and family because of their anti social teaching on marriage. They were a threat not only to the church, but also...
...Jennifer's popularity, but no indorsing it either. She never seems very girlish or charming, nor can Janet Blair bring much beyond looks to the role. The play has bright moments and agreeable lines, but. for the most part, where it is not determinedly cute it is studiously carnal. It is perhaps enough by now that Mr. Herbert has turned youth into a commodity without also making innocence a gimmick...
...which Kowalski's line "You might not be too bad to interfere with," was vetoed for some indiscernible reason. Since this line was intended to suggest the first awakening of dishonorable intentions toward Blanche, Stanley's subsequent apelike pursuit now comes as a surprise. Legion attacks on the obvious "carnal" element in Stanley's relationship to his wife were not too successful; short of cutting her out of the picture, they could not wipe that smirk off her face...
...will eat. Its attacks are always made from open sky, and what it does not kill with the first attack, it seldom bothers to pursue. The late Gerald H. Thayer once admiringly described the peregrine falcon as a "powerful, wild, majestic, independent bird, living on the choicest of clean carnal food plucked fresh from the air or the surface of the waters; rearing its young in the nooks of dangerous mountain cliffs ... It is the very embodiment of noble rapacity and lonely freedom...
...Jehovah's Witnesses are not pacifists," he shouted to the convention. "We are fighters, but using no carnal weapons . . . We merely sound the trumpet as the advance guards of the mighty heavenly hosts led by the Great Warrior, Jesus Christ. These legions of warring angels follow us with mighty weapons of warfare that will make the atomic bomb, the hydrogen bomb, and all other inventions of warfare by men look like the popgun of a child in comparison...