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sensuality

[sen-shoo-al-i-tee] / ˌsɛn ʃuˈæl ɪ ti /




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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

On screen, Brigitte Bardot was a cocktail of kittenish charm and continental sensuality, but it was an image she grew to loathe - eventually abandoning her career to campaign for animal welfare.

From BBC Dec. 31, 2025

But inside, it’s both a spellbook and a manifesto for how to think like a cook — one grounded in curiosity, sensuality and the simple act of paying attention.

From Salon Oct. 12, 2025

Their romance is in some ways expressed more through cooking and eating than through words, which is one reason that accentuating the sensuality of the food was important for Tran.

From New York Times Feb. 9, 2024

To the pride, was attached emi63nently the art of architecture; to the sensuality, those of painting and sculpture.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin

Nor had we any more understanding for 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 shops are her art-museums, her gymnasiums, her paradises, and the privilege of reveling among them is more voluptuous than any other of her sensualities.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes

He had the sensualities of innocence: he loved the stickiness of gum, and he cut white wood greedily as if he were cutting a cake.

From Manalive by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The former took refuge in the mystic sensualities of the worship of Isis, the latter in the Stoical rules of life. 

From Miscellanies by Robert Ross

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




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