sensuous

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The film boasts sensuous formal achievements, from the glorious alpine shots to the experimental sound design of a raging storm and the dizzying angles deployed by Kirsanoff, an Estonian Jew and Parisian avant-gardist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

From dressing rooms, young Dario watched his photographer mother, Elda Luxardo, capture Italian divas, including Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, in sensuous black-and-white portraits.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024

Zhang evokes the sensuous delight of working with fresh ingredients in a time when certain flavors are essentially extinct.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2023

Though written on the eve of a cataclysmic war, the piece is dreamy, sensuous, mesmeric — and deliciously detailed as only Ravel can be.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2023

We can readily understand Michelangelo’s discomfort, for Titian has rephrased his sculpture in utterly sensuous terms through the painterly application of sonorous color that is characteristic of his work.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson