General Hermodorus, whether he loved Pharaoh or no, did not strike me as a man willing to take risk for carnal passions.

Compared to such fables, most of the stories in this collection treat carnal passion and spiritual ambition in ways more contemporary and naturalistic.

Throughout the album, carnal passion carries portents of doom, not all of them verbal.

To a lesser eye sullied by carnal passions, the control complex might have seemed crude, mechanical, prosaic.

There was licence to excess in all things of the body, in food and drink and carnal passion.

It can be seen as an ecstatic ode to the beauty and mystery of nature, or even to carnal passion.

The memory of her carnal passion still baffled her.

But the subject was passion, spiritual and carnal, with each composer taking a side.

The poem described the carnal passion of "an eternal nihilistic spirit" to a Georgian girl Tamara.