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

That high-pile sentence makes no effort to separate the allure of costly appliances from the sensuousness of the coffee and the dark cream.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2017

“The idea that the intellect is somehow alien to sensuousness, or vice versa, is one that I have never been able to connect with,” he told The Paris Review in an interview in 2000.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2016

Perhaps, fearful of losing the attention of their readers, novelists are borrowing the captivating force of music, feeding off its sensuousness in an effort to regain a lost immediacy.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 27, 2015

When musicians came into the courtyard she closed the windows in order not to hear them: the sensuousness of music moved her very soul.

From Germinie Lacerteux by Goncourt, Jules de