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sensuality

[sen-shoo-al-i-tee] / ˌsɛn ʃuˈæl ɪ ti /




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A strikingly potent Frida, Isabel Leonard used her velvety mezzo to find the drama of the artist’s remembered torment as well as the undulating sensuality of her love for painting and colors.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

On screen, Brigitte Bardot was a cocktail of kittenish charm and continental sensuality, but it was an image she grew to loathe - eventually abandoning her career to campaign for animal welfare.

From BBC Dec. 31, 2025

But inside, it’s both a spellbook and a manifesto for how to think like a cook — one grounded in curiosity, sensuality and the simple act of paying attention.

From Salon Oct. 12, 2025

In “Jaded” and “Muddy Feet,” she emphasizes the grainy texture in her voice over stomping rock grooves; “Rose Colored Lenses” has her rounding the edges of each phrase with a woozy sensuality.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 14, 2023

Such hideous faces, such deformed figures, such monstrous distortion and debasement, such general ugliness and sensuality, oppress one with a feeling of melancholy rather than exhilaration.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton

Asceticism, repulsive in many of its aspects, and even unnatural and inhuman, drew a cordon around the Christians, and separated them from the sensualities of ordinary life.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity by John Lord

He had the sensualities of innocence: he loved the stickiness of gum, and he cut white wood greedily as if he were cutting a cake.

From Manalive by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The former took refuge in the mystic sensualities of the worship of Isis, the latter in the Stoical rules of life.

From Essays and Lectures by Oscar Wilde

The shops are her art-museums, her gymnasiums, her paradises, and the privilege of reveling among them is more voluptuous than any other of her sensualities.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes

The former took refuge in the mystic sensualities of the worship of Isis, the latter in the Stoical rules of life. 

From Miscellanies by Robert Ross




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