sensuel

At first sight, he was your homme moyen sensuel, except there was nothing very moyen about his sensuality, which was pretty damn extraordinary.

'Let All Your Thinks Be Thanks' 2007

The literature of twentieth-century totalitarianism, whether in prefiguring the epoch of Nazism and Stalinism or in drawing on it, often relied on un homme moyen sensuel — the luckless particle swept up in the process, or the worm from whose eye the titanic, forbidding edifice could be squintingly, even cringingly, scrutinized.

Survivor 2004

The literature of twentieth-century totalitarianism, whether in prefiguring the epoch of Nazism and Stalinism or in drawing on it, often relied on un homme moyen sensuel — the luckless particle swept up in the process, or the worm from whose eye the titanic, forbidding edifice could be squintingly, even cringingly, scrutinized.

Survivor 2004

All you have to tell them is that the questions are designed for l'homme moyen sensuel, that they should take it at face value.

The Tests and the Brightest 1980

Justine and La philosophie are not quite so overpoweringly ghastly as Les 120 journées de Sodome, which has been omitted; still, they are obscene and sadistic enough to give a fair idea of the Marquis in his most typical mood and to put any homme moyen sensuel completely off sex for a day or two.

King Phallus Weightman, John 1965

That is to say, while he vaguely wanted _l'homme moyen sensuel_ to mend his ways, he did not expect him to change fundamentally.

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

But most of them kept their benefices and their sweethearts both, though we find it noted as worthy of mention in the epitaph of the composer and canon, Pierre de la Rue, in the 16th century, that as an “adorateur diligent du Tres-Haut, ministre du Christ, il sut garder la chastete et se preserver du contact de l'amour sensuel.”

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903

The attitude of Pepys is brought out with incomparable simplicity and sincerity because he is setting down these things for his own eyes only, but his case is substantially that of a vast number of other men, perhaps indeed of the typical _homme moyen sensuel_ (see Pepys, _Diary_, ed. Wheatley; e.g., vol. iv, passim).

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

Shakespeare, unless severely adapted, and, in fact, treated as the book for a picturesque musico-dramatic performance, does not appeal very movingly to _l'homme moyen sensuel_, nor do the sentimental puppet stories which form the stock of our theatre fascinate him.

Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Edward Fordham Spence 1896

The French have a phrase, "l'homme moyen sensuel" -- the average sensual man.

Damaged Goods; the great play "Les avaries" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author Eug��ne Brieux 1895