Carnal love, then and, well, call it sentimental love, the day-to-day caring about the other.

NEWYORKER: Beginners

Herrmann's music conspires with Robert Burks's dreamy colors to invoke Madeline in a green halo, a uniquely carnal ghost.

NPR: 'Hitchcock's Music' Scores Big on Suspense

Not because of what was depicted on the screen, but because of the so-called carnal, voluptuous sound of the saxophone.

NPR: Saxophone's History as 'The Devil's Horn'

From baroque ritual to performance art, Brazilian art blends the carnal and the spiritual, focusing heavily on the bodily experience.

ECONOMIST: Brazilian art

He merely appealed to our carnal nature and demonized Romney by ratcheting up covetousness sown into the nature of man.

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Previously, the FBI defined the crime of rape as "the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will".

BBC: FBI updates rape-victim definition to include men

Carnal contact in the movies rarely progressed beyond a kiss.

ECONOMIST: Kathryn Murray

The Saint Sebastian Preti undertook for the high altar of a Naples chapel was roundly rejected by the nuns who had commissioned it: they were scandalised by its frankly carnal aspect.

ECONOMIST: Il Cavaliere Calabrese

But no carnal spark ignites.

NEWYORKER: Bare Naked Ladies