sensuousness
Example Sentences
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These are the glory of Cycladic art, distinguished by their stylized forms, folded arms and blank faces — except for little wedge-shaped noses — also by their understated sensuousness and reverberating stillness.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
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
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
It loses it sensuousness, its resonances all leach away.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2012
The poet showed that the attack was in great measure unjust, but he would not have sought to deny that there was sensuousness in his poetry.
From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker
