sensuousness

Example Sentences

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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 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

The virtue of a specific charm, too, attaches as much to the piano as to other instruments, though, perhaps, in a lesser degree of sensuousness than to some others.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef