sensuous
Example Sentences
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Impressively, “A Private Man” is sensuous but never salacious.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Until “Anónimo,” the Argentine avant-garde had never sounded so intoxicatingly sensuous.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025
Initially, the prose is rich and sensuous but becomes less sumptuous as the story progresses.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2024
When he notes that a sensuous prose stylist “wants subject and style to be allied and affianced,” he reenacts the very resonances he praises.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023
We can readily understand Michelangelo’s discomfort, for Titian has rephrased his sculpture in utterly sensuous terms through the painterly application of sonorous color that is characteristic of his work.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
Vocabulary lists containing sensuous
Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Warm-up, List 11
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