The count has a mind above vulgar desires and earthly passions.

He declared that the Sikh militants had turned the shrine into "an area of earthly passion and crime."

Was it mere earthly passion?

For two reasons: I have touched your dress, and I have given way to earthly passion and embraced a child--twice.

Is the land of spirits then such as your poets picture, and do the dead turn to each other with eyes of earthly passion?

In the East, Sufi poets used earthly passion as a metaphor; the beloved they celebrated was God.

A monkey, only partially carved, grasps his left shin, representing either art as mere "aping" (mimesis) or suggesting earthly passions.

Aleister was the alpha male of "The Alliance", a secret order about celebrating pleasure and valuing earthly passions equal to spiritual devotion.

Weak, miserable, cringing, the human soul, when torn with earthly passion, must look at its own strength for the fight.

Torn between her spiritual and earthly passions, Sister Consuelo decides to confess all to her superiors and requests an immediate transfer.