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sensuousness



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These are the glory of Cycladic art, distinguished by their stylized forms, folded arms and blank faces — except for little wedge-shaped noses — also by their understated sensuousness and reverberating stillness.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

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

The show’s joyfulness is due as much to its confident aesthetic sensuousness as to its subject matter.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018

Both Osipova and Vasiliev get into difficulties with the slow-melting sensuousness of certain moves, the rhythmic snap of others.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2011

But the thing that drew him to the beautiful girl had nothing to do with this chance incident; nor was there the slightest trace of sensuousness in his feelings.

From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield


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