sensualist

If we look to the previous two decades of movies, we find charming, fastidious sensualists — the stars of warm comedies.

Rajamouli is a cinematic sensualist, something not often seen or appreciated in the action genre.

When a poem of hers, "Spring," was rejected — the editor found its style too "sensualist," à la Romantic poetry — she decided to send it to Seventeen magazine instead.

Campion, one of cinema’s great sensualists, captures Phil and his men with water glimmering in the sun off their nude bodies, muscles tensed, not a woman in sight.

Yet the concentration and physiological specificity with which he embodied characters, from power-hungry medieval monarchs to a 20th-century sensualist painter, made you tense up in anatomical empathy.