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

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 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

That high-pile sentence makes no effort to separate the allure of costly appliances from the sensuousness of the coffee and the dark cream.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2017

Exquisite style, impassioned eloquence and glowing descriptions of nature gained indulgence for the incongruity between the rudeness of the personages and the refinement of the sentiments, and for the distasteful blending of prudery with sensuousness.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various