sensuousness

Example Sentences

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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

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

“The idea that the intellect is somehow alien to sensuousness, or vice versa, is one that I have never been able to connect with,” he told The Paris Review in an interview in 2000.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2016

Perhaps, fearful of losing the attention of their readers, novelists are borrowing the captivating force of music, feeding off its sensuousness in an effort to regain a lost immediacy.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 27, 2015

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