sensuousness

Example Sentences

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Wayne Thiebaud, whose luscious, colorful paintings of cakes and San Francisco cityscapes combined sensuousness, nostalgia and a hint of melancholy, died on Dec. 25.

From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2021

Clara’s private, phantasmal liberation signals the influence of the John Cassavetes film “Opening Night,” but Bridey’s images do not aspire to the sensuousness of that inspiration.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2019

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

The show’s joyfulness is due as much to its confident aesthetic sensuousness as to its subject matter.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018

The virtue of a specific charm, too, attaches as much to the piano as to other instruments, though, perhaps, in a lesser degree of sensuousness than to some others.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef