sensuousness
Example Sentences
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Wayne Thiebaud, whose luscious, colorful paintings of cakes and San Francisco cityscapes combined sensuousness, nostalgia and a hint of melancholy, died on Dec. 25.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2021
Clara’s private, phantasmal liberation signals the influence of the John Cassavetes film “Opening Night,” but Bridey’s images do not aspire to the sensuousness of that inspiration.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2019
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
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
His later books are less imitative; the influence of Verlaine and Baudelaire is not so apparent; the sophistication is less cynical, the sensuousness more restrained.
From Modern British Poetry by Louis Untermeyer
