sensuousness
Example Sentences
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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
They have to do with touch, with tenderness, with giving things their proper weight, with accepting and relishing the sensuousness in things, with knowing when to stand back.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 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 is intellect and artistic sensibility versus sensuousness," yawned Lady Thurwell.
From The New Tenant by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
