And the reason for the debasement was the fruitless denial of music's essential nature as "a purely sensual delight."

All my perceptions were purely sensual.

He formed attachments based purely on sensual pleasure.

On a purely sensual level, he understood her antics.

This myth, however, is denounced by Plato in his Laws as having been made up to justify purely sensual practices:

I could be content standing there in the exhilarating Maine sunlight with two small ones beside me, happy in a purely sensual way.

Purely visual means based on purely sensual perception, unaltered by addition, alienation or mental intention - or in other words free of acquired knowledge.

They are depicted as purely sensual and primitive.

The moan was purely sensual.