Word: sensuality
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...experience, a kiss that would have terrified a weaker man by its implications." From then on she and the hero spend much of their time "on some plane high above all other people in the world in a kind of sulphurous glory, the devastating bond between two purely sensual people who had no sense of sin and knew no shame...
...artist who reduces "passion to a poet's syllable." It ends by culogizing the blunt emotions of love and hate--"the hate that shows us naked . . . the love that cleaves us open-eyed, unmasked, unversed, alive. Voiceless poets released from artifice, whose statement sings in this most sensual peace." One hates to accuse Mr. Abrahams of hypocrisy; but when he lauds the poet "released from artifice," the accusation of poor humor, seems at least fully justified...
...businessman never loved dollars as metal or paper, in the grim, sensual way in which Frenchmen loved francs. The U. S. businessman, in the days before the Revolution, was George Babbitt, a booster-a booster because he was a believer. He believed in money because it represented something else: power, as some called it; freedom, as others called it. Power, freedom and money were an indivisible atom. Therefore, dollars mattered...
...this worldly environment, young Marian Evans had long feared that she might become "earthly, sensual and devilish." She wrote little but translations, but even these were a moral hazard: she had lost her faith while translating Strauss's Life of Jesus. She was about to lose something else. Says Author Haight: "The sensual side seems to have developed to a marked degree while she was translating The Essence of Christianity." From this work Marian learned Philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach's notions about free love. She had met "the ugliest man in London," George Lewes, the biographer of Goethe...
...Rather, this England approaches death with sensual pleasure and smacks its lips over every phase and bears every humiliation and every cynicism if only it can hope that, in dying, it may also drag its enemy into the abyss. The psychopath knows that in such cases pleasure in destruction parallels pleasure in self-destruction...