sensuality
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A strikingly potent Frida, Isabel Leonard used her velvety mezzo to find the drama of the artist’s remembered torment as well as the undulating sensuality of her love for painting and colors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
In portraiture, like Sargent’s Dr. Pozzi at Home or Raphael’s Portrait of a Cardinal, red can communicate faith, sensuality or power.
From Salon ● May 17, 2024
"His surroundings must be his most effective defence for a record of arrogance, cruelty, sensuality and greed while in power at Madras," he wrote.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
Because her journey is solitary, “Death Valley” lacks the interpersonal richness and sensuality of “Milk Fed.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2023
"Budhism inculcates benevolence, tenderness, forgiveness of injuries, and love of enemies; and forbids sensuality, love of pleasure, and attachment to worldly objects."
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
Asceticism, repulsive in many of its aspects, and even unnatural and inhuman, drew a cordon around the Christians, and separated them from the sensualities of ordinary life.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity by John Lord
These evil-disposed affections and sensualities in us are always contrary to the rule of our salvation.
From Sermons on the Card by Henry Morley
With their taste thus exalted to better pleasures, the youth of all classes were saved from the brutalizing sensualities that destroy character and health.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
Nor did we understand any more Renoir's rich sensualities of tone; nor did the mastery with which he achieves an absence of shadow appeal to us.
From Confessions of a Young Man by George (George Augustus) Moore
The former took refuge in the mystic sensualities of the worship of Isis, the latter in the Stoical rules of life.
From Essays and Lectures by Oscar Wilde
