sensuousness

Example Sentences

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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

Her parents divorced when she was young: their marriage, forged in “the excitement and sensuousness and heady intellectual atmosphere of the movement” petered out when the movement did.

From The Guardian • Sep. 15, 2017

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

But the mind which is mainly sensuous by direct action may also work by reflex action, and pass from sensuousness into sentiment.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael