sensuousness
Example Sentences
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These are the glory of Cycladic art, distinguished by their stylized forms, folded arms and blank faces — except for little wedge-shaped noses — also by their understated sensuousness and reverberating stillness.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
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
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
Curnyn, however, has an innate understanding of the immediacy and sensuousness of Vivaldi's work; even though some of the pauses between sections lasted fractionally too long, the performance was terrific.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2012
This communal despotism strikes at the very foundation of personal virtue, viz. the home, the instrument by which nature lifts human character above the non-moral sensuousness of the animal world.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore
