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

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

They have to do with touch, with tenderness, with giving things their proper weight, with accepting and relishing the sensuousness in things, with knowing when to stand back.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2018

Steadily, steadily his hands cleft it, the activity of his brain dwindling and dwindling and lapsing at length into a mere self-abandonment to the sensuousness of the motion.

From Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real by Zangwill, Louis