sensuousness
Example Sentences
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Clara’s private, phantasmal liberation signals the influence of the John Cassavetes film “Opening Night,” but Bridey’s images do not aspire to the sensuousness of that inspiration.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2019
The century’s divine Swedish keeper of the electronic pop flame returned from her long hiatus with tunes, feelings, independence, humor, and superhumanity intact, but with a lusher philosophical sensuousness that at times recollects Kate Bush.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2018
Perhaps, fearful of losing the attention of their readers, novelists are borrowing the captivating force of music, feeding off its sensuousness in an effort to regain a lost immediacy.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 27, 2015
It loses it sensuousness, its resonances all leach away.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2012
Rossetti, D. G., 240-244; his sensuousness, 241-242; his treatment of nature, 243; his ballads, 243; and Christina Rossetti, 245.
From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh
