Word: carnal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweetness and chastity, however. The maid (Bina Breitner) is having a not-so-discreet fling with a beatnik named Claude (Larry Gonick), and even Mother's cardinal virtues melt quickly into carnal pleasures in his agreeable arms...
...Half Nelson. By the time she got into her second number (An Englishman Needs Time), she wasn't trembling any more. She did slow, undulous bumps and highly negotiable grinds, a smile spread round her ice-blue eyes, and she gave quite enough of a hint of the carnal power and consuming ambition that had made her famous. "Ein richtiger Teufelsbraten," shouted a bull-necked German. "A veritable devil's dish...
...house after he had been secretly visited by two angels. "Where are the men which came in to thee this night?" they asked. "Bring them out unto us, that we may know them." Beginning with rabbinical interpreters in the 2nd century B.C., scholars have assumed that "know" here implied carnal knowledge. Apart from what it may mean in the story of Lot, Williamson argues, the Hebrew word for "know" (yadoa) clearly has a sexual connotation in only ten out of 943 instances in the Old Testament, and then it refers to heterosexual relations. "Plain logic," he says, "demands the ordinary...
Getting Caught. This harsh judgment may overlook the fact that Britain was never the sort of place Victorian morality pretended it was. If London today resembles Babylon-on-Thames, it is little more than a de luxe model of the brutal, carnal 18th century city whose brothels, boudoirs and gin shops ("Drunk for a Penny, Dead Drunk for Tuppence") were pictured by Hogarth, Richardson and Fielding...
...holy excesses, fanaticisms or theopathic absorption, self-torment, prudery, scrupulosity, gullibility, and morbid inability to meet the world. By the very intensity of his fidelity to the paltry ideals with which an inferior intellect may inspire him, a saint can be even more objectionable and damnable than a superficial carnal man would be in the same situation. We must judge him not sentimentally only, and not in isolation, but using our own intellectual standards, placing him in his environment, and estimating his total function...