All 16 Uses of
sensual
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- In a man so depraved this might, of course, mean no more than sensual attraction.†
Chpt 1
- Besides the long fleshy bags under his little, always insolent, suspicious, and ironical eyes; besides the multitude of deep wrinkles in his little fat face, the Adam's apple hung below his sharp chin like a great, fleshy goiter, which gave him a peculiar, repulsive, sensual appearance; add to that a long rapacious mouth with full lips, between which could be seen little stumps of black decayed teeth.†
Chpt 1
- You have sense enough: don't give way to drunkenness and incontinence of speech; don't give way to sensual lust; and, above all, to the love of money.†
Chpt 2
- It's your father has handed him on his low sensuality.†
Chpt 2 *
- In your family sensuality is carried to a disease.†
Chpt 2
- So it's a familiar subject; you've thought about it already, about sensuality, I mean!†
Chpt 2
- What is at the root of all you Karamazovs is that you're all sensual, grasping and crazy!†
Chpt 2
- Her gifts to man are friends in need, The wreath, the foaming must, To angels—vision of God's throne, To insects—sensual lust.†
Chpt 3
- I want to tell you now about the insects to whom God gave "sensual lust."†
Chpt 3
- To insects—sensual lust.†
Chpt 3
- Tempests, because sensual lust is a tempest—worse than a tempest!†
Chpt 3
- He stands on a firm rock, too, he stands on his sensuality—though after we are thirty, indeed, there may be nothing else to stand on….†
Chpt 5
- I know for a fact there are people who at every blow are worked up to sensuality, to literal sensuality, which increases progressively at every blow they inflict.†
Chpt 5
- I know for a fact there are people who at every blow are worked up to sensuality, to literal sensuality, which increases progressively at every blow they inflict.†
Chpt 5
- But it only proved that, in his love for the woman, there was an element of something far higher than he himself imagined, that it was not only a sensual passion, not only the "curve of her body," of which he had talked to Alyosha.†
Chpt 8
- He saw nothing in life but sensual pleasure, and he brought his children up to be the same.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(sensual) relating to pleasing the body's senses (in contrast to the intellect) -- especially of sexual sensation