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

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

Sonatas and Interludes, as played by Tan, is alive and alert with an intense sensuousness in which every percussive gesture and flicker of colour has an exquisite physicality.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2011

They were written at the most prosaic moment of the national development, by men who could not afford to substitute the true Italian poetry of irony and idyllic sensuousness for the ancient religious spirit.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington