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sensuous

[sen-shoo-uhs] / ˈsɛn ʃu əs /


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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

Vivaldi’s Italian innovations, honed to sensuous perfection in the carnival city of Venice, travelled north across the Alps and found a fan in Lutheran north-east Germany: Johann Sebastian Bach.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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