He did not intend to meet his own demise because of unsatisfied carnal need.

Call me old-fashioned but my mother's carnal needs were not something I'd come here to discuss.

If she felt no carnal needs, perhaps it was best that he felt none either.

We have assumed that they have a sexuality, are influenced by carnal needs and experience the drives common to most human beings.

Past religions have always represented the spiritual nature of man, with little or no concern for his carnal or mundane needs.

But there was something in his defeated attitude that said this was more important, more costly, than a carnal need.

It was only the consummation of his carnal need that was impossible.

It proved nothing, except that he had certain carnal needs, like any other man.

Ms. Williams's new work is about the need for love - carnal and spiritual - at the time of life when such needs gain gravity.

The house on Caroline Street was a temple dedicated to meeting their parents' insatiable carnal needs.