A possibly immature but exuberant carnality was rebellion against conformity.
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She said that the explicit carnality of the prose was an essential part of the project.
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And yes, the show takes place against an internet-shaped landscape of vast and mutable carnality.
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Or has she started narrowcasting her brand, maximizing self-love and carnality and setting aside larger issues?
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As a songwriter, he crafts music that bends toward playful carnality, pursuit, and the impulses of human desire.
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He is the author of Carnality: Dancing On Red Lake, a psychological horror novel about evangelicals in America.
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The women in a block of his films are more than victims; and carnality is both weapon and currency.
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The territorial carnality of Will's love imbues a scene in which the couple first visit John's house for dinner.
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The play on gender stereotypes results in a fascinating cultural artifice, beyond the biblical tale of wickedness, or unbridled carnality.
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He is not a writer shocked or disappointed by carnality or by the fact that it often exists alongside virtue.
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She is also, however, a songwriter and singer who explores complex intersections of carnality, power and devotion — as Prince did.
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Those eras were, of course, the time of the Sexual Revolution, when women claimed their own carnality and reveled in it.
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"Apollonian rigidity versus Dionysian catharsis is brilliantly etched as carnality opposes pretense and the haughty are brought low via mockery," he says.
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Guitarist Nick Zinner and drummer Brian Chase brought a steadiness to their flippant, 70s punk revivalist attitude that complimented Karen O's carnality.
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For all their freedoms and frank carnality, the movies of Hollywood's pre-Code era — roughly 1929 to 1934 — were often about sacrifice.
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He wrote about carnality with a frankness that became so awkward in his later years that it looped back around to being endearing.
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How languidly and grossly they intertwine with one another — how clumsily, lewdly, indiscriminately — like lascivious cephalopods merged in seething tangles of prehensile carnality.
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In the perky "Cyber Sex," she flaunts and teases at the distance between physical and virtual carnality, between face-to-face interaction and FaceTime.
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Mr. Tiran's moving, expressive performance during the possession has an acrobatic elasticity, with hints of Iggy Pop carnality and eyeball work indebted to Jack Nicholson.
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The soup is deceptively mild at first, gaining carnality with each spoonful but never growing too forceful, held in check by a faint, ameliorating sweetness.
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It slows down the instrumental of Juvenile's "Back That Azz Up" (arguably bounce's largest mainstream hit) to a crawl, inverting the original's amped-up carnality to menacing seduction.
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Full of music, movement and carnality, that production arrives on Wednesday, May 2, at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, where it will be performed in Greek with English supertitles.
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Gaga and Kesha have both cited her as an influence and her blunt-force electronics and deadpan carnality can be heard in the music that stormed the charts from 2008 to 2010.
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At its most imaginative, the allegorical quality of his pictures trouble their fundamental realism, conjuring up, here and there, the carnality and mayhem seen in works by Francisco Goya and Bruno Schulz.
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The nudes may be what first catch our attention, but Schiele was also an extraordinarily perceptive portraitist who was able to exchange his ravenous carnality for an atmosphere of sympathy, calm, and mutual respect.
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But here the carnality is countered by sweetness, brought on by first roasting the bones, then adding rock sugar and a bounty of aromatics whose profusion might be frowned upon in the more austere north.
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With her signifiers of millennial hipness and downplaying of carnality in favor of blank-faced ritual, Imhof has given this generation exactly what they deserve, which is also exactly what they want: a picture of themselves.
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It will be the first thing, let's face it, for which hostile readers will hunt, but the forty-second President of the United States is smart enough to give any hint of carnality the widest of berths.
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At first Effie appears as an all-too-recognizable embodiment of the "broken Britain" phenomenon chronicled in the tabloids — another young person who has fallen through the cracks, awash in a sea of booze, reckless carnality and the like.
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The women in the play, followers of the god Dionysos, revel in their carnality without self-consciousness or shame — a theme Ms. Keiley was deeply interested in exploring in her dreamlike production, which is lush with music and dance.
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There is a feminist and revisionist aspect to the series, which intends to rescue Catherine from the more extreme fabrications about her carnality while still celebrating the sexual boldness that accompanied her (relatively) enlightened attitudes and masterly exercise of power.
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Gioia rightly acknowledges the importance of Robert Johnson, the blues master of the mid-1930s, celebrating the overt carnality, blunt violence, and debt to magic and superstition in his music and image, as well as the formal rigor of his musicianship.
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Rather than trying to expand on Steven Soderbergh's original, Gregory Jacobs's sequel "tosses it all aside like a handyman's tool belt and throws itself headlong into the intoxicating carnality of what is demurely called 'male entertainment,'" A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
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Rather than trying to expand on Steven Soderbergh's original, Gregory Jacobs's sequel "tosses it all aside like a handyman's tool belt and throws itself headlong into the intoxicating carnality of what is demurely called 'male entertainment,'" A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
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Slice open the band's tripartite brain—the collective minds of Wise, Cory Feierman, William Schmiechen—and you'll see two distinct lobes; one half's guided by the tripped-out carnality of 60s psych, manifested in heavy-lidded hooks and freewheeling solos, while the other belies a far more erudite (and distinctly New York) praxis, adopted out of necessity: carefully-plotted tours, rigid studio schedules, and playback sessions.
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" Schiele, in his extreme self-pitying self-regard — this is an exhibition, after all, with separate categories for "The Self" and "The Ego" (the former, according to their respective wall labels, referring to the "body language" of the self-portraits, while the latter focuses on the "fiction of identity") — approaches spirituality as a hybrid of narcissism and carnality, with a haloed "Self-Portrait as a Saint.
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So they accommodated humanistic premises to explain both unregeneracy and carnality.
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I am sure that to them the invocation of Beelzebub is a prelibation of carnality.
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The remote eastern Fastnesses, like lamaseries, where Foretellers channel the future in a rite of intense, nearly savage carnality.
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Stern suggests she may be in the midst of the sexual act. Utamaro mercilessly portrays the carnality of the depths of the lives of prostitutes.
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Despite calling itself a clear book, the Quranic language lacks clarity. Other criticisms point at the moral attitude asserted by the Quran, such as commanding to strike disobedient wives, carnality in the afterlife and commandments of warfare.
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Schwartz, M. (1998). A History of Dogs in the Early Americas. Yale University Press. pp. 146–149. . In Aztec mythology, Huehuecóyotl (meaning "old coyote"), the god of dance, music and carnality, is depicted in several codices as a man with a coyote's head.
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In chapter 7, Umaswati presents the Jaina vows and explains their value in stopping karmic particle inflow to the soul. The vows, translates Nathmal Tatia, are ahimsa (abstinence from violence), anirta (abstinence from falsehood), asteya (abstinence from stealing), brahmacharya (abstinence from carnality), and aparigraha (abstinence from possessiveness).
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Watts, Janet. "The couple that cheers", The Guardian, 19 March 1974, p. 12 In 1971, Courtneidge starred in the farce Move Over, Mrs Markham at the Vaudeville Theatre, playing "a prudish authoress from Norfolk, bemused by all the flying exits, unexpected entrances, and atmosphere of incipient carnality."Billington, Michael.
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See also references and bibliography in Scuola Romana. She was an artist characterised by a profound anti-academic conviction, also affirmed by her sculptures which, especially after World War II, dominated her output. They highlighted the tender and vibrant carnality present in stone, with works such as Miriam dormiente (Sleeping Miriam) and Nemesis.
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He remained married to wife, Bev, and practiced for three or four hours most mornings for his own enjoyment. > That feeling, when it's right, there's nothing better – carnality, food, > throw it all out the window. When I get in a groove, I'm detached, almost > like losing consciousness, like flying some sort of super aircraft.
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Drawing from his own experiences, he often painted circus performers and landscapes with fishermen. His paintings of women are emphatic in their carnality, and his landscapes are notable in their careful attention to space, and to the effects of reflected light on water. Bombois' works are on view in many public collections, notably the Musée Maillol in Paris.
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Vulture, an online blog associated with New York, included lyrics from "Teeth" in its "Best Lines" portal. In 2017, Billboard ranked "Teeth" number six in its list of the 100 greatest "deep cuts" in 21st century pop music, writing that "what makes 'Teeth' so remarkable isn't its implied carnality... but the seething aggression lurking not far below the song's surface".
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He saw her as "no wielder of power," but rather that her "devouring sexuality...diminishes her power". His language and writings use images of darkness, desire, beauty, sensuality, and carnality to portray not a strong, powerful woman, but a temptress. Throughout his writing on Antony and Cleopatra, Eliot refers to Cleopatra as material rather than person. He frequently calls her "thing".
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However, there were also some negative reviews. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic said the song is "a Katy Perry-styled exercise in crass commercial carnality that is at once the best and worst song here". Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly called it "puerile" and added that "it'll be a middle-school sensation". NME named it one of the filthiest songs of all time.
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Ms. Greer exudes sensual awareness as she tells the story of her new life of carnality. That story is the first of three interwoven narratives in Mr. Pape's play. The others in this so-called triologue are delivered by her lover and another woman. As the three take turns addressing the audience -- and never make contact with one another onstage -- a romance unfolds.
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Jackson's eighth studio album Damita Jo was released in March 2004, titled after her middle name. It debuted at number two on the Billboard 200. The album received mixed to positive reviews, praising the sonic innovation of selected songs and Jackson's vocal harmonies, while others criticized its frequent themes of carnality. However, several critics' reviews focused on the Super Bowl incident, rather than critiquing the album itself.
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Practitioners do not believe that Satan literally exists and do not worship him. Instead, Satan is viewed as a positive archetype representing pride, carnality, and enlightenment. He is also embraced as a symbol of defiance against Abrahamic religions which LaVeyans criticize for suppressing humanity's natural instincts and encouraging irrationality. The religion propagates a naturalistic worldview, seeing mankind as animals existing in an amoral universe.
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The Party () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Pierre Falardeau and released in 1990."Shocking Canadian film based on real-life prison". Ottawa Citizen, September 12, 1990. Loosely based on the prison experiences of convicted Front de libération du Québec terrorist Francis Simard, the film centres on the annual party at the St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary in Laval, Quebec,"Party in hoosegaw captures carnality".
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University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989, 48 According to Fradenburg, these miraculous tales operate according to a paradoxical logic in which "visuality and carnality are used to insist upon the superior virtue of that which is beyond sight and flesh." Yet such sacramental materialism remains vulnerable to the kinds of abuse more obviously associated with the Pardoner; Fradenburg cites the case of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, the historical episode of the young English Christian supposedly martyred by Jews, "slayn also / With cursed Jewes, as it is notable / For it is but a litel while ago" (VII 684–686), tacked onto the end of the "Prioress' Tale". The tale was intimately bound up with attempts to "aggrandise the spiritual prestige and temporal revenues" of the local cathedral.Fradenburg 207 Thus the vivid "carnality" of the miraculous tale of martyrdom could be deployed as easily to enhance the worldly prominence of the Church as to refute heretical doctrine by reaffirming the spiritual legitimacy of Church rituals.
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In his introduction to the Star edition of the book, Alexis Lykiard notes its mordant humour and opines that it "is that rarity – an entertaining, funny and sexy book".Alexis Lykiard (1981), "Introduction" to A Man with a Maid. Star Books: ix–xvi. Susan Griffin comments that when the hero forces the heroine to remove her clothing he gloats over not her beauty but her humiliation: "The virgin is punished by carnality".
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Rev. Dr Alan Clifford is a pastor in the Norwich Reformed Church, which is associated with the Farthing Trust. He is an outspoken proponent of Amyraldism, or four-point Calvinism. In 2012 he was stopped from holding a weekly bookstall in Norwich following a complaint it was producing "hate- motivated" literature against Islam. In 2013 he was investigated by the police after describing the Norwich Pride celebrations as an “unashamed carnival of perverted carnality”.
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" "Kate proclaimed herself responsible to no one save herself." She professed to be a medium of spiritualism, and delivered lectures on that subject. In her lectures she publicly declared that murder might be a dictation for good; that in what the world might deem villainy, her soul might read bravery, nobility, and humanity. She advocated "free love," and denounced all social regulations for the promotion of purity and the prevention of carnality, which she called "miserable requirements of self-constituted society.
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Her second two books, The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality and Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism, examine formations of the Late Liberal Anthropocene from the perspective of intimacy, embodiment, and narrative form.Haus der Kulteren der Welt, The Anthropocene Project She was the recipient of the German Transatlantic Program Prize and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Fall 2011. In 2018 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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The Great God Pan, front and back, in 1902 The sculpture depicts the Greek god Pan, a half- man, half-goat deity associated with pastoral living, rustic music, and carnality. Barnard's Pan is mature and strongly muscled, with a long tangled beard, the ears and cloven hooves of a goat, but no horns or tail. He reclines lazily on his side atop a rock, playing his reed pipe and dangling one hoof over the edge of the rock. The bronze sculpture is approximately tall, long, and wide.
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The intangible is also feminine and erotic. Torn between a sheer idealism of friendly and platonic unions and a voluptuous carnality, Manuel Bandeira is, in many of his poems, a poet of guilt. The pleasure is not accomplished by the satisfaction of desire, but it is the excitement of loss that satisfies the desire. In Dissolute Rhythm, eroticism, so morbid in the first two books, is longing, it is the dissolution of a liquid element, as it is the case of wet nights in Loneliness.
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" GamesRadar gave a perfect score of 5 stars and stated, "Between its pacing, its presentation, and its excellent gunplay, Max Payne 3 has raised the bar for other action games to follow. Welcome back." The Guardian gave a perfect score of 5 stars and they called it "A masterpiece of underworld carnality, depravity and violence." IGN gave 9/10, and stated "It touches on the disparity between rich and poor, and how resentment and desperation can fester in the slums and the penthouses alike.
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Yggdrasil, a modern attempt to reconstruct the Norse world tree which connects the heavens, the world, and the underworld. Mythological cosmologies often depict the world as centered on an axis mundi and delimited by a boundary such as a world ocean, a world serpent or similar. In some religions, worldliness (also called carnality)Hemer, C. J. "Worldly" Edited by Geoffrey W. Bromiley The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1979–1988 is that which relates to this world as opposed to other worlds or realms.
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Abu Shabaki's was a prolific writer, publishing a wide variety of works including poems, journal articles and literary studies. Widely seen as his most important work was Afa'i al- Firdaws (1938). Elias' writing is characterized by powerful imagery, realism and often a striking carnality and obsession with the pleasures of the flesh. Elias believed that the purest art evolves from emotion, which he thought was the source of authentic and aesthetic experience; he set a high value for inspiration and denounced rationalism and the role of conscious control in writing poetry.
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Cardinal Basil Hume was one of the book's contributors and enjoyed a very close relationship with Michael Seed who helped him raise funds for the homeless centre The Passage which is still going strong. One of these fund raising events arranged by Michael Seed was the annual "A Night Under The Stars". On 15 July 2009, Seed launched the second volume of his autobiography, Sinners and Saints, at Stringfellows lapdancing club in London's West End. The book received mixed reviews: The Telegraph "enjoyed the strange tale of carnality and cardinals".
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Bufan's efforts in keeping his carnality in control are thwarted by Xiao Hong, who dishes herself up to him. Her quick thinking in posing herself off as his Marketing colleague saves the two of them from being exposures when Xinya sees her one day. Angered, he confronts her only to be blackmailed when she shows him some compromising pictures of both of them, which she wants him to redeem with money. Cunxiao quietly informs Xinya that his female friend had seen Bufan at Geylang, but she doesn’t believe it.
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Being an adherent to the Romantic school, Abu Shabki believed in inspiration and denounced conscious control in poetry. His poems were gloomy, deeply personal and often contained biblical overtones centering on his internal moral conflicts. Some of Abu Shabaki's work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Serpents of Paradise which was regarded as obscene due to its overt sexual content. The poet's obsession with the spiritual consequences of carnality that was manifested in his writings was attributed to the guilt brought upon by his sexual escapades with various women when he was married and until his death from leukemia in 1947.
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According to some critics, this particular style is inspired in the new trends for esthetics with no or little relation to classical or academic models. Clearly influenced by the graphic work of Peter Paul Rubens, the sculptures of Francisco Luque represent women overflowing sensuality and carnality, transmitting warmth through the shape. The disproportion detected in his human figures, opposite to the canon of conventional beauty, puts him closer to Fernando Botero full of tenderness and serenity. In the sculptures of Francisco Luque, the close and defined painting stroke characteristic of Fernando Botero is transformed in smoothness and curves, which enclosed in themselves the female spirit, main motif of the artist.
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She also contributes a 1990s diva hook with husky vocals. The lyrics evoke different sensory experiences, and describe how crazy love can make one feel. Cat Cardenas of Teen Vogue stated that the lyrics see Lipa "wrapped up in an all-consuming, addictive love", while Rolling Stones Jon Freeman described them as "[celebrating] carnality and physicality as the gateway to higher ground". The song received comparisons to the works of Atomic Kitten, Daft Punk, Lady Gaga ("Poker Face", 2008), Gloria Gaynor, Kaytranada, Madonna (Confessions on a Dance Floor, 2005; "Impressive Instant", 2001), Kylie Minogue, Moloko, Katy Perry, Prince, Donna Summer ("I Feel Love", 1977), and Years & Years.
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LaVey used Christianity as a negative mirror for his new faith, with LaVeyan Satanism rejecting the basic principles and theology of Christian belief. It views Christianity - alongside other major religions, and philosophies such as humanism and liberal democracy - as a largely negative force on humanity; LaVeyan Satanists perceive Christianity as a lie which promotes idealism, self-denigration, herd behavior, and irrationality. LaVeyans view their religion as a force for redressing this balance by encouraging materialism, egoism, stratification, carnality, atheism, and social Darwinism. LaVey's Satanism was particularly critical of what it understands as Christianity's denial of humanity's animal nature, and it instead calls for the celebration of, and indulgence in, these desires.
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It was the first Ray Charles record that got attention from white audiences, but it made some black audiences uncomfortable with its black gospel derivatives; Charles later stated that the joining of gospel and R&B; was not a conscious decision.Evans, p. 71. In December 1958, he had a hit on the R&B; charts with "Night Time Is the Right Time", an ode to carnality that was sung between Charles and one of the Raelettes, Margie Hendricks, with whom Charles was having an affair. Since 1956 Charles had also included a Wurlitzer electric piano on tour because he did not trust the tuning and quality of the pianos provided him at every venue.
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Valentinians understood the conflict between Jews and Gentiles in Romans to be a coded reference to the differences between Psychics (people who are partly spiritual but have not yet achieved separation from carnality) and Pneumatics (totally spiritual people). The Valentinians argued that such codes were intrinsic in gnosticism, secrecy being important to ensuring proper progression to true inner understanding. According to Bentley Layton "Classical Gnosticism" and "The School of Thomas" antedated and influenced the development of Valentinus, whom Layton called "the great [Gnostic] reformer" and "the focal point" of Gnostic development. While in Alexandria, where he was born, Valentinus probably would have had contact with the Gnostic teacher Basilides, and may have been influenced by him.
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In their history of the disc jockey and club culture, Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton describe the Sanctuary as "poured full of newly liberated gay men, then shaken (and stirred) by a weighty concoction of dance music and pharmacoia of pills and potions, the result is a festivaly of carnality."Bill Brewster/Frank Broughton: Last Night a DJ Saved my Life: The History of the Disc Jockey. London: Headline 1999, pp. 136-148. The Sanctuary was the "first totally uninhibited gay discotheque in America" and while sex was not allowed on the dancefloor, the dark corners, the bathrooms and the hallwasy of the adjacent buildings were all utilized for orgy like sexual engagements.
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The trio met with frequent and new collaborators such as Mark Ralph, Greg Kurstin, Steve Mac and Jesse Shatkin to produce most its tracks. It is named after the South American "palo santo" (Spanish for "holy wood"), which was commonly used to fend off bad spirits, though Alexander used its name as a dick joke referring to men he knew. Palo Santo is a concept album, set in the fictional world of Palo Santo, where traditional rules regarding gender and sexuality do not exist. Its lyrical content deals with "the murky, complicated side" of desire, as well as the connection between religion and carnality, using religious iconography in dealing with themes of sexuality, queerness and guilt.
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Heikki Marila, pictured in Stockholm, Sweden Heikki Marila (born 1966 in Lahti, Finland) is a Finnish visual artist known for his large-scale oil paintings and allusions to art history, including biblical motifs, portraiture and still life compositions. His expressive paintings are typically infused with paradoxical drama: they play on contrasts – spirituality, beauty and the sublime are mixed with fiery carnality and a hint of revulsion. His paintings possess a powerfully physical materiality, which is heightened by an ongoing dialogue between figurative and non-figurative elements and by his thickly applied layers of oil paint. In his recent work, Marila captures the intensity of 17th century painting traditions, which he reinterprets through the lens of contemporary social and visual themes.
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She filmed supporting parts for the independent road film Dallas 362 (2003) and the well-received comedy-drama In Good Company (2004), and appeared alongside former NBA star John Salley and Judy Davis in the television movie Coast to Coast. In 2004, Blair took on the role of Liz Sherman, a depressed pyrotechnic superhero, in Guillermo Del Toro's blockbuster fantasy film Hellboy, co-starring Ron Perlman. Based on Mike Mignola's popular comic book series, the film was favorably received by critics; The New York Times remarked: "Blair's heavy-lidded eyes seem to be at half mast from some lovely lewd fantasy. With her sleepy carnality and dry, hesitant timing, she is a superb foil for Mr. Perlman's plain-spoken bravado".
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He had been "haunted with atheistic thoughts and blasphemous suggestions". He was jealous and suspicious of friends (he said) and complained of his own pride and "self-carnality". He was also much depressed by conversations with ordinary people, who told him about their experiences of conversion, which "he has been a stranger to". Mr Wodrow thought him a sincere, studious and depressive sort of person, with the tendency of such people to be over-critical of themselves and rather obsessive on the details of theological study. He advised Mr M’Culloch that his obvious sincerity and great knowledge both scripture and doctrine made him a far better person to be a minister than many he knew. Mr Wodrow noted the many "bodily marks" of Mr M’Culloch’s anguish — including piercing headaches.
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Following its release, Guilty Pleasure generated mixed reviews from critics and has a 48 out of 100 on Metacritic, based on six critical reviews. The most positive of reviews came from Allmusic's Stephen Erlewine, who gave the album three and a half stars out of five, stating that when Tisdale "sticks to the surface, she makes sure that Guilty Pleasure lives up to its title". The ballads however, were not as well received, stating Tisdale "isn't convincing when she tries to deal in either pain or carnality". Billboard gave the album a mixed review with four and a half stars out of ten, stating Tisdale "can deliver the radio-ready goods" but criticized the album as a whole and that it "doesn't give the singer room to comfortably let loose".
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Dante shown holding a copy of the Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to Hell, the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, with the spheres of Heaven above, in Michelino's fresco Early criticism came from Christian authors, many of whom viewed Islam as a Christian heresy or a form of idolatry and often explained it in apocalyptic terms. Islamic salvation optimism and its carnality was criticized by Christian writers. Islam's sensual descriptions of paradise led many Christians to conclude that Islam was not a spiritual religion, but a material one. Although sensual pleasure was also present in early Christianity, as seen in the writings of Irenaeus, the doctrines of the former Manichaean Augustine of Hippo led to broad repudiation of bodily pleasure in both life and the afterlife.
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By describing the music, drugs and liberated mentality as a trifecta coming together to create the festival of carnality, Brewster and Broughton are inciting all three as stimuli for the dancing, sex and other embodied movements that contributed to the corporeal vibrations within the Sanctuary. This supports the argument that the disco music took a role in facilitating this sexual liberation that was experienced in the discotheques. Further, this coupled with the recent legalization of abortions, the introduction of antibiotics and the pill all facilitated a culture shift around sex from one of procreation to pleasure and enjoyment fostering a very sex positive framework around discotheques. Given that at this time all instances of oral and anal gay sex were considered deviant and illegal acts in New York state, this sexual freedom can be considered quite liberatory and resistant to dominant oppressive structures.
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Jonathan Romney says that "To a degree, Battle in Heaven might seem like another warmed-over example of a familiar movie myth: a fairly repellent no-hoper redeemed by hot sex with a quasi-virginal prostitute," but that "it's finally hard to know whether Reygadas takes his transcendental, religious theme seriously, or is deriding it outright - or even deriding us for taking it seriously."Jonathan Romney, "Battle in Heaven (18)" The Independent Sunday, 30 October 2005 Lisa Schwarzbaum gives the film a grade of D+. "Between those two attention grabbers on a theme of flagpoles, languorously performed and indifferently observed, Mexican filmmaker/provocateur Carlos Reygadas pitches his own fight for the aesthetic tolerances of viewers, goading us to react to images about which he himself studiously offers no opinion." Schwarzbaum finds that "for all the shock of the movie's clinical carnality, this battle is lost."Lisa Schwarzbaum, "Movie Review: Battle in Heaven (2006)" Entertainment Weekly Posted Feb 15, 2006 Battle in Heaven was later voted one of the 30 best films of its decade in a poll for Sight & Sound.
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From the first release of Tunnel of Love, there had listeners who wondered if some of the gloomy portrayals of interpersonal relationships on the album indicated that Springsteen's 1985 marriage to actress and model Julianne Phillips was in trouble. Others, however, cautioned against such interpretations, pointing out that Springsteen's 1982 album Nebraska had been full of intense tales of spree killers and other criminals, of which Springsteen clearly had no personal experience. Los Angeles Times music writer Robert Hilburn, interviewing Springsteen at the Worcester start of the tour, wrote that "Springsteen seemed extremely comfortable sitting on a sofa with his wife in the dressing room area – a picture that seemed to contradict the speculation that Tunnel of Love's songs of troubled romance reflected signs of trouble in his own marriage." In addition to everything else, what was different about the Tunnel of Love Express was Springsteen's first go at explicit carnality, from the opening "Tunnel of Love", where he and Scialfa sang cheek to cheek with lips nearly touching at the same microphone, to other numbers such as "Part Man, Part Monkey".
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