Word: sensualistic
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...Diverses, received a royal pension, and married his childhood sweetheart, Adele Foucher. By then he was one of the most mixed characters that ever walked the earth-a tempestuous rebel, a lover of kings, a bourgeois who could account for every sou he spent, a fanatical moralist, an insatiable sensualist. He came virgin to his marriage and apparently never strayed from his wife until, nine years later, his excessive demands so exhausted her that she shut her bedroom door against him. The virility of his poems and dramas was found equally exhausting by most of his public, and his friends...
...Secrets," a sensualist is unable to escape the reverie of past sights. Samuel Thompson has portrayed a lonely who hides among filmy dreams and natural beauty when faced with such realistic as the end of a love affair and a heart attack: "The snow was like clean white sand, warm smooth sand. Just like a South Sea island a warm small island with fine tan women. And it was so wonderfully, lazily warm. So warm on the island that some of the women didn't wear any clothes...
A.C.D. is also a sensualist who must feed on life and action. His book is strong when it describes his meals. It is weak between feedings...
Such honesty has led hostile critics to hint that Mauriac is essentially a refined sensualist who, from motives of caution or guilt, takes care to renew his option with God. Mauriac, in a brief essay appended to The Loved and the Unloved, replies in a voice of deep humility: "Though, quite often, Grace does 'break in' [to his books], it has tended to do so less and less as I have grown older ... I might point out that evil is a reality in this world of ours, that the people I set out to paint are fallen creatures...
Russian justice has a flair for getting people to admit most anything. It got Sensualist Koch to admit shooting at least three victims at each mass execution as an example to his men, asphyxiating 30 people in a gas chamber, sending 2,500 to Maidanek (knowing it was a death camp), personally executing more than 5,000 men, women & children in three years...