sensuous
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They include accomplished long takes and sensuous riffs on well-defined genres.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025
Geometry competes with sensuous paint-handling and lush color.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025
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
The Odissi style here is less sensuous in its signature S-curves, and more rhythmically incisive.
From New York Times • May 10, 2023
The pen between my fingers is sensuous, alive almost, I can feel its power, the power of the words it contains.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing sensuous
Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Warm-up, List 11
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