Word: sensualism
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...imbecilic protests at his open amours; indignantly resented any interference? even the most pacific?from the husband or family of any lady who chanced to be the object of his rather various affections. A boorish, choleric, tactless, amorous gentlemen was this Wagner, improvident and insolent, luxurious and sensual, incorrigibly sure of himself and of his mission, totally oblivious to the unhappiness he brought on his associates, utterly bigoted...
...chapter on Being in Love and Hypnosis, is a masterly exposition of the transfer of the ego to the object or person loved (distinguished from purely sensual love or, in psychoanalytical parlance, the libido). This transfer is due to mutual influences; absence of personal criticism; supreme evaluation of characteristics, usually to the detriment of outside persons; quasi-repression of the sexual passions. Two people in love, therefore, have absorbed each other's ego.. The author then parallels love and hypnosis or, in other words, he calls hypnosis love minus the sexual appetite...
...Walt's great poems are really huge, fat tomb-plants, great, rank, graveyard growths"; and then: " Whitman was the first heroic seer to seize the soul by the scruff of her neck and plant her down among the potsherds." He is even able to read the darkness of acute sensual passion into the Leatherstocking Series...
...individual can be sordid and sensual in the cultivation of his reading habits. The average person of the common workaday life too frequently turns to the kind of reading which affords only recreation and an opportunity to pass an idle moment which in itself is very well enough if all of the reading which one does is not of that kind. Good reading does not necessarily confine itself to the heavy uninteresting type of essay or literature which only the few care to peruse, but it does involve more than the ordinary subject matter such as is found in average...
...solving the problem, Mr. Tagore first established the assumption of the actuality of self and that the fundamental property of self is its individuality. Not the annihilation of self but the separation of it from the tyranny of the sensual desires is the supreme goal of the philosophy of India. Selfish pleasures are in truth self-destructible. Ignorance is the only fetter which binds the self to these pleasures. Therefore, sinfulness is not contained in the original nature of man to be destroyed by God alone, but may be wiped out by the destruction of ignorance...