How To Use Sensuous In A Sentence

This is a world of fabulous richness and sensuous pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
We do not think that something is beautiful merely to me, in the way that we might say that some things just happen to give me sensuous pleasure.
One step advanced beyond this, Jerry's uttermost, the folk of Somo, from the contemplation of death, had achieved concepts of the spirits of the dead still living in immaterial and supersensuous realms. Chapter 15
For a sensuous bath, try sandalwood, rose, ylang-ylang, patchouli, neroli or jasmine.
It is a beautiful opera, full of lush arias, sensuous waltzes, and an intriguing amount of transvestism.

Such men are the dwellers in the halls of Circean senses; they can appreciate only the sensuous. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
It's a typically riotous mix of oompah music-hall cavortings, slurred-pitch Middle Eastern rhapsodising, luxuriously sensuous clarinet love-songs, and stormy collective blasts reminiscent of the 1960s John Coltrane quartet. Gilad Atzmon Orient House Ensemble: The Tide Has Changed
The touch of the sea sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
A sensuous massage will help you feel wanted and will help him relax. The Sun
Then devote yourselves to relaxing together and maybe sharing a sensuous massage. The Sun
Then get into sharing sensuous all-over body massages. The Sun
Instead, they went after the lesser-known "petits ma î tres" (mainly 18th-century French paintings, 17th - through early 19th-century Italian and French sculptures), usually following their private tastes for soft-skinned, sensuous women and muscular naked men, whether suave and still or erotically writhing. Nice Wing, Pity About the Art
He is sensuous, selfish and pleasure-loving.
The sensuous milk bath is scented with fresh rose petals, kaffir lime and stimulating essential oils.
She very nearly made Edie feel inadequate by the sheer felinity of her movements, by the sensuous grace of her silent prowl, the lively flicks of her tail.
Clearly inflected by the more profound nuances of Japanese tradition, Pawson's spirit of sensuous rationalism meets such pragmatic challenges head on.
For a sensuous bath, try sandalwood, rose, ylang-ylang, patchouli, neroli or jasmine.
The director employs sensuous, atmospheric camerawork and deft dramatic touches.
After a brief introduction, the music becomes a sensuous waltz, filled with regret.
Now, under the influence of Orphism, the tendency to reinstate the more sensuous aspects of painting grew stronger.
The men's series has no rival for styling, craftsmanship and sensuous touch.
With religion bestialized and its management regulated wholly with an idea to the gratification of man's sensuous desires, religious temples, under the supervision of the priesthood, became brothels, in which were openly practiced as part and parcel of religious rites and ceremonies the most wanton profligacy and the most shameless self-abandonment. The God-Idea of the Ancients
Add a funny, finally devastating smile, the sensuous Portuguese language, and what can only be called the ease of Case's full-bodied womanliness, and you've got more than enough love to go around.
Her curvaceousness; the symmetry of her face; the sensuousness of her eyes; each assumed a threatening quality.
the sensuous joy from all things fair
The languid, sensuous curves of his buildings are defined by the effortless lines that poured from his felt pen. Times, Sunday Times
We developed a cloth system that allowed the artists to place draperies in the player's path, which creates a very sensuous feeling, and a glow system that adds texture and magic to the light.
English speakers understand that in perceiving tomatoes, grapes, etc one is acquainted with sensuous features.
The most striking characteristic of Morris's designs is a sensuous vitality derived from his deep love of nature.
The overall look of the Cuban salsa should be sensuous and fluid, with the dancers moving around each other and the floor in circular movements.
The aesthetic is the sensuous, what is given to the senses.
Soon the music wells into a sensuous patterning that covers the whole tessitura, climaxing in the uppermost reaches where glistening ostinati by the ensemble are captured, looped and repeated as an extra textural layer.
She lay very still, waiting with a sensuous pleasure for the first effects of the soporific. The House of Mirth
Her approach to working on a large scale is exciting, as is her ability to coax such sensuous and elegant shapes from clay. Times, Sunday Times
For centuries silk has had a reputation as a luxurious and sensuous fabric, one associated with wealth and success.
They might almost have been called sensuous, but this was not a man whose demeanor spoke of such things. The Unquiet
His next task: Hone his unique vibe, which he characterizes as sensuous and seductive - with additional influences from popular music, rhythm-and-blues and alternative rock. Summit Daily News - Top Stories
Dining on the lanai at Plumeria Beach is a sensuous experience.
It was, by design, kissably sensuous, designed to arouse men and provoke the lust of masters; some girls are terrified to wear such lipstick; they know how it enhances their loveliness and proclaims them well as slaves; they understand well its intention and are seldom left long in doubt as to its effectiveness; had they originally entertained doubts as to its efficacy these doubts are often dispelled rapidly, as they squirm, naked and collared, perfumed, in the arms of a strong man, as it is being ruthlessly kissed from their lips. Guardsman Of Gor
The actual constructions, however, foregrounded human endeavor in the crisply minimal forms and sensuously smooth surfaces of medium density fiberboard.
For thousands of years the subjugation of the sensuous faculties has been regarded as a constitutive element of human reason and progress.
Poetic, elliptical pic unfolds in short, sensuous stream-of-consciousness-like scenes that evoke an interior world of emotion and sensation. GreenCine Daily
So the overall effect from some distance away was of a green thread that moved steadily, but jiggled and shook like a sensuous conga line.
For, as Bataille says, ‘it takes an iron nerve to perceive the connection between the promise of life implicit in eroticism and the sensuous aspect of death’.
These are the defilements of sensuous desire, ill-will or anger, sloth and torpor, agitation and worry, and doubt.
Moreover, though every intellectual act is accompanied by sensory motion, and especially by some sense representation (phantasma) evoked in the imagination, nevertheless sensation and sensuous representation (phantasma, image) differ essentially from the idea produced in and by the intellect, which is an immaterial, supersensuous and superorganic power or faculty. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
The Church, however, has been unable to eradicate the blend of sacred and profane, spiritual and sensuous, life within death, which the East Slavs had inherited from their pagan ancestors.
I think maybe I wasn't sexy enough," the still sensuous Horne told Carson, with a sarcasm so deft, it could pass for airy banter.
The whole also seems short on sensuous visuals or theatrical effects. Times, Sunday Times
Beautifully textured, sensuous and skin-friendly, it is cool in torrid Indian summers and keeps one warm in winter.
The sensuous frenzy of his juvenile poems is still remembered against him; it betrayed a lack of moral dignity, of what the Greek poets, whom he so much admired, meant by the word [Greek: aidos]. Studies in Literature and History
She had lived a life of sensuous pleasure without joy. Christianity Today
A sensuous massage will help you feel wanted and will help him relax. The Sun
The change of the arrangement of the hair from the sensuously spilling curls of the Venus to the modest chignon of a Diana produces the same fateful tension embodied in the simultaneously modest and revealing drapery.
My favourite sex writing is the writing that like Lisa Moore’s Open or Degrees of Nakedness is real sex in seductive portions (the sensuous particulars Richard and Russell describe); Moore offers details and they read like morsels of a slow, blindfolded meal. Discussion: On Sex in Fiction
He writes in the patois of Barbados, in the voices of village women, a language he makes both playful and sensuous.
Some women have asserted the sensuous pleasure of nurturing. The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
He was particularly interested in disillusioned outsiders in conflict with society and the law (albeit motivated more by emotion than logic), and their ensuing violence and pain, both of which were conveyed in a deeply sensuous way through the powerful performances Penn consistently drew from his actors. Arthur Penn obituary
The snow-capped mountain ranges, the sheer sensuousness of the sublime peaks and their changing hues provide a serene touch to the exhibition.
The actual constructions, however, foregrounded human endeavor in the crisply minimal forms and sensuously smooth surfaces of medium density fiberboard.
Virtuoso percussionist and soloist David Cossin displays remarkable genius as he deftly creates unique, sensuous, organic and sometimes celestial sounds using a range of water-based instruments.
She works the vocabulary of dance to move her plots and caresses characters with lush, sensuous descriptions.
He's undeniably attractive, with a sensuous mouth that twists with a thin, mocking smile.
This is a world of fabulous richness and sensuous pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
Not only are oysters reportedly aphrodisiacal - Casanova famously feasted on them every day - they are a sensuous, zinc-rich texture food full of squelchy, salty juiciness.
Her approach to working on a large scale is exciting, as is her ability to coax such sensuous and elegant shapes from clay. Times, Sunday Times
No missish sentiment, no modesty was strong enough to distract her from the sensuous delight of his fingers, the strength of his hands, the pleasure they conjured. The Perfect Lover
I can get a blanket if you want to keep staring at him," Mogget said slyly, twining himself around her ankles in a sensuous pavane. SABRIEL
Eline seated herself on a flat piece of stone and felt the warm breeze fan her cheeks with an almost sensuous pleasure.
Claude Debussy Paris, France, 1902This sensuous, Symbolist tragedy in 12 tableaux marks a radical departure: instead of arias and set pieces, the text is declaimed, inspired by Wagner, over an ever-moving orchestration. Top 50 operas
And talked about the kind of sensuous pleasure that water on her skin gave her, and how she felt at her most alive when she was in water.
Sinewy and sensuous, these preparatory masterworks are anatomical wonders capturing the longings of the famously impetuous painter.
She lay very still, waiting with a sensuous pleasure for the first effects of the soporific. The House of Mirth
I'd like to recommend an experience that should send the sales of conservatories soaring and which is also possibly one of the most headily sensuous you are likely to find this far north of the equator.
Anthology, and he would recite it with great inflation of spirits; but he did not think very much of "your Keatses, and your Tennysons, and the whole Hasheesh crazy lot," as he called the dreamily sensuous idealists who belong to the same century that brought in ether and chloroform. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
The sensuousness of this piece is heightened by the softness and translucency of the polished stone.
If only instead of a phallic button, they'd provided each couple with a strokable velvety cleft, or a sensuous, supple, peach-sized ball with a nipply appendage. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
Like Welles, Laughton had a face perfect for conveying sensuous depravity, with that overlarge lower lip doing half the work for him. The Mannionville Daily Gazettes Favorite Blog of the Day: Favorite Film Blogger Anniversary Edition
The expressionists, finally, pitted their own brand of emotional but, characteristically, nonsensuous and nonerotic subjectivism against the imitative art of the nineteenth century. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
And going - it's designed as a sensuous experience for couples. Times, Sunday Times
His sensuous mouth is constrained, his carmine lips almost quiver.
This might feel similar to a bit of a unwashed peepshow, but check out a sensuous-smooth character of her unwrapping (photos nabbed from a Daily Mails screen squeeze collection): Archive 2009-12-01
His thumb rubbed sensuously along the swollen lower lip while his other hand undid his belt buckle.
She luxuriated in the sensuous feel of the silk sheets.
She had no formal training but developed a rigorous, austere style, counter-pointed by a sensuous use of color, which she maintained for many decades.
Sunripened tomatoes, cool cukes, sensuous spearmint, and hip hempseed as an alternative to the gluten containing bulgur wheat that is traditionally used. Brigitte Mars: Vegan Gluten-Free Tabouli Salad
And with Joanna, his woman love, so complex and sensuous, and so eternally intriguing. COMPULSION
His thumb rubbed sensuously along the swollen lower lip while his other hand undid his belt buckle.
Feuerbach, not satisfied with abstract thinking, wants contemplation; but he does not conceive sensuousness as practical, human-sensuous activity.
Beethoven's six Gellert lieder were hobbled by bad intonation, while the cautious note-to-note rendition of Wagner's Wesendonk songs lacked any sense of their sensuous wonder.
Nevertheless, her particular conception of, and attitude toward, love does not in the least harm her extreme sensuousness and desirability as a wonderfully voluptuous bed partner.
This sensuous pas de trois, her brother and the procurer manipulating her compliant limbs, gives us a throbbing chill. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike the distinct representation of a triangle whereby the intellect distinguishes parts and aspects of the triangle from one another, a sensuous representation is clear but indistinct, that is to say, to have a sensuous representation is to perceive something without intellectually distinguishing its parts or aspects. Moses Mendelssohn
With whatever qualifications, it is certainly one of the great English lyrics, and its union of Renaissance sensuousness with grandeur of conception and sureness of expression foretell clearly enough at twenty the poet of 'Paradise Lost.' A History of English Literature
Stephen Rice brings a sort of sensuousness to the shaping of each of the phrases that means the highly intellectual basis of much of the writing in terms of the adherence to the rules of stile antico part writingis always imbued with a directness of expression befitting to such a flexible voice as underlies this music. Archive 2009-03-01
It's sensuous, sensual art, much like Debussy and Ravel at the same time, but heavier on the perfume, gold lamé, and red velvet.
Offer him a sensuous all-over body massage. The Sun
Otherwise, there were yielding green figs in winey, citrusy syrup, with a faultless vanilla ice-cream liquefying sensuously into it.
Opting for an unusually loose, appositional syntax which strings together phrases or clauses that come at a phenomenon from different angles, he manages to give a sensuous concreteness to abstract concepts.
There is a painterly quality to the finish of the fruit, the sensuous surfaces sprayed and brushed in gradual layers from light to dark.
This was considered very sensuous at the time, as filth and animal feces were considered adornments, like sexy lingerie is to modern women.
The film is ravishing to look at and boasts a sensuous musical score.
Reaching into the little envelopes feels like an almost violating act - and the sensuousness of the writing gives it an electric, erotic, exciting charge.
French makers of opera are franker, for they seek to glorify impudicity in the persons of its greatest historical representatives by lavishing upon the subject the most gorgeous pictures, the most ingenious theatrical contrivances, and the most sensuous music at their command. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
This is pursued undoubtedly in accordance with the old idea that the punishment should be commensurate with the sin and bear a sym - bolic relationship to it; those succumbing to vanity and sensuous lust, and with them their seducers, the min - strels, are punished with the instruments of their sins. MUSIC AS A DEMONIC ART
Even without the grandstanding final essay, Pater's book is an incitement to a life of cultivated sensuousness, as well as a celebration of the "comeliness" of the human form. Decadent Writing Of the 19th Century
There is a moment, in fact, when the instinct of life, not yet opposed to the instinct of form, acts as nature and as necessity; when the sensuous is a power because man has not begun; for even in man there can be no other power than his will. >Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XX.
You can resist the opera's vision of redemption but you cannot resist music which enfolds you so completely in a web of sensuous twisting harmonies.
The first half of the program which repeats on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. was occupied with two suites and an aria from Albert Roussel's opera "Padmavati," a heavy-lidded and sensuous piece of French Orientalism so rich that O'Connor's voice in the aria was veritably swallowed up by the eggy music around it. NSO review: Tabla meets West as 'India' concert strikes a crossover convergence
But the museum is wonderfully tactile, and the lush use of video, music and lighting makes this an utterly sensuous experience. Times, Sunday Times
Prince's ‘Marlboro Men,’ for example, enlarged from cigarette advertisements, have a sensuous overblown color grain that evokes pointillism.
Cyder (1708) by John Philips, a sensuous evocation of English agriculture that paints a picture of the country in a kind of Edenic state of ripeness: Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
The unifying factor in all this is her desire to give audiences a sensuous experience.
I love the warm wall of hips and thighs and belly, the anchoring tug of hands through my hair, the wild, sensuous undulations, drawing me in, like a moonward tide. Insatiable
It was a sensuous experience in a city of sensations, particularly gastronomic. Times, Sunday Times
With the azan shrilling in the background, the curtain rose on the beautiful Kashmiri dancers holding basketfuls of yellow flowers and yellow hankies, moving in simple and sensuous formations.
It is sensuous in that it makes full use of the senses - seeing, touching, smelling, tasting and hearing.
She virtually invented boho-chic: swirly tiered skirts, fringed shawls and improbable headdresses, worn with an insouciant slash of scarlet lipstick on her sensuous lips.
The languid, sensuous curves of his buildings are defined by the effortless lines that poured from his felt pen. Times, Sunday Times
She seems determined to make the even the most unremarkable foods sound gloriously decadent and sensuous.
Both Latin and South America are hot, passionate, and filled with the sensuous beats of the mambo, samba, and tango.
sensuously delighting in the wine and food
The sensuous material for both concretions is the same; the perception which, recurring in different objects otherwise not retained in memory gives the idea of roundness, is the same perception which helps to constitute the spatial concretion called the sun. The Life of Reason
For me, Russian music is still a fabulous luxury: rich, exciting, sensuous, something to wallow in.
The immediate perception of sensuous or material objects by our senses is called sensuous or empirical intuition, the immediate apprehension of intellectual or immaterial objects by our intelligence is called intellectual intuition. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
The leisured progress, the sensuous attention to phrases, coupled with nuances in phrasing, created the reverberations of singing at a durbar.
At the same time his work celebrated (under the cover of classical mythology) the sensuous pleasures of the flesh.
But this imperious petulance, curiously as it contrasts with the patience which, a little later, she will display, is native to Ottima; she is not the victim of her nerves this morning, though now she passes without transition to a mood of sensuous cajolement -- Browning's Heroines
Each Orisha has its own character dance - the ferocious stomp of Shango the god of thunder; the sensuous, watery sway of Oshun, the divinity of love - and Acosta includes some of these dances in Tocororo.
But the museum is wonderfully tactile, and the lush use of video, music and lighting makes this an utterly sensuous experience. Times, Sunday Times
The feeling which thus enters as a factor into any sensation is known as sensuous feeling. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education
The concept of ‘worldliness’ for Said was a profound understanding of circumstantiality and the role of what Marx refers to as ‘sensuous’ human activity in interpretation.
She luxuriated in the sensuous feel of the silk sheets.
Her approach to working on a large scale is exciting, as is her ability to coax such sensuous and elegant shapes from clay. Times, Sunday Times
Her curvaceousness; the symmetry of her face; the sensuousness of her eyes; each assumed a threatening quality.
His music's lush, even sensuous harmonies make it a joy to sing.
We have an indefinable impression that the rajah is a sensuous, indolent, extravagant sybarite, given to polo, diamonds and dancing girls, and amputates the heads of his subjects at pleasure; but that is very far from the truth. Modern India
It is of course a separate question of whether physical objects do have the sensuous features that they are represented as having.
And its velvety touch was perversely sensuous although, fortunately for Creed, not quite enough to gain his favour.
Here the sensuous wooing of the traditional lover is replaced by a display of coy and squeamish chastity.
She heard his soft and sensuous chuckle float on the moonbeams behind her.
Make him set aside at least a couple of nights a week for you to give each other a sensuous massage. The Sun
I am forty-five, I can look back at her with all my old admiration and none of my old bitterness with a new affection and not a scrap of passion, and take her part against the equally stupid, drivingly-energetic, sensuous, intellectual sprawl I used to be. Tono Bungay
In the above example, for instance, the colour would be spoken of as a presentative element, because it is immediately presented to the mind in sensuous terms, or through the senses. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education
It's too insistent and compelling to feel sensuous, but it's damn sexy in its own way all the same.
Arnolfini, Sat to 19 Nov; Part two: 9 Dec to 5 FebSSHere's a show staged in part-darkness that at times touches on psychologically doomy themes while at others it catalyses moments of pure sensuous illumination. This week's new exhibitions
The speaker is able to engage sensuously with the brilliant carp, nature's highlights, only if the reach of nature into darker places where dwell the suckerfish, the ‘drainers of dregs, drab makers of clarity’ are set in Jungian balance.
And, finally, she had great, blazing black eyes -- the half-caste eye, round, full-orbed, and sensuous, which marks the collision of the dark races with the light. THE STORY OF JEES UCK
At the same time his work celebrated (under the cover of classical mythology) the sensuous pleasures of the flesh.
While the sensuousness of the recording's sounds gives it an immediate visceral appeal, it's the manner by which it coheres into a compositional whole that impresses most of all.
His thumb rubbed sensuously along the swollen lower lip while his other hand undid his belt buckle.
It was a sensuous experience in a city of sensations, particularly gastronomic. Times, Sunday Times
Few clearer statements of the naturalistic paradox of joy in momentary and sensuous pleasure being clouded by a pall that shrouds even the happiest summits34 can be found in London's fiction than his summary of Fang's outlook at the moment of realization: Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
The luxurious air of the seraglio is made complete by a sensuous zither-like ‘santir’ and gentle drumming in the background.
For the reader who doesn't share Harrison's fascination with physical extremity, though, the journey can seem less sensuous or revelatory than furtively pornographic.
The most striking characteristic of Morris's designs is a sensuous vitality derived from his deep love of nature.
Drawing on the functional spirit of the wash house, new parts are executed in taut, Kahnian planes of russet brick and sensuous copper which will patinate gracefully and gradually over time.
Are they powerfully sensuous, that is do they appeal strongly to the physical senses, of sight (color, light, and movement), sound (including music), smell, taste, touch, and general physical sensation? A History of English Literature
The first, much lengthier section of the film is set in the present and is shot in rich, sensuous black and white.
Both raw and sensuous, it became Hi's signature sound as the label rose to prominence with Mr. Green in the 1970s. NYT > Home Page
Sensuous and atmospheric, it conjures up a sense of mystery and even of the sacred, without being declaredly religious. Times, Sunday Times
After the gentle, sensuous vowels of Latin-American, this language sounds harsh, cruel, authoritarian.
There are more sensuous pauses and pensive gulfs between his allegrettos and adagios.
His sensuous mouth is constrained, his carmine lips almost quiver.
Juditha" is filled with beguiling music very lushly orchestrated and filled with exotic Baroque instruments that have ceased to be used in modern orchestras, like the chalumeau sounds like a cross between a flute and a clarinet or the lavishly strung theorbo, giving the score an exotic sound always filled with Vivaldi's sensuous, graceful lyricism. DesignerBlog
Offer him a sensuous all-over body massage. The Sun
Set aside time to share some sensuous all-over body massage - just the thing to help you both unwind. The Sun
An incomprehensible expression irradiated her face, and she seemed to be brooding sensuously on some private hoard of satisfaction. The Judge
Pelletier readily brings out the sensuous, rhapsodic elements of ‘L' ile joyeuse ’, and captures the jaunty, toccata-like spirit of ‘Masques’.
The first thing one remarks of Paul Manes's paintings of sprawlingly rendered stacked bowls is the complex sensuousness of their surfaces.
The film is ravishing to look at and boasts a sensuous musical score.
In a similar manner if there be some truth which has no sensuous or rational relation to human mind, it will ever remain as nothing so long as we remain human beings.
Contemporary architecture is all about amalgamating sensuous forms with flowing functions, and it would be real hard to find a designer home that does that better than this beautiful adobe. Carpet That Looks Like a Tree Ring
But drinking coffee is a sensuous pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
She lay very still, waiting with a sensuous pleasure for the first effects of the soporific. The House of Mirth
Sharon's rich, sensuous voice coquets above the piano, the drums, the bass.
Whitman, so deeply sensuous that his poetry has the emotive compulsion of the fairground mountebank, was famous enough to be used in advertisements.
Arnolfini, Sat to 19 Nov; Part two: 9 Dec to 5 FebSSHere's a show staged in part-darkness that at times touches on psychologically doomy themes while at others it catalyses moments of pure sensuous illumination. This week's new exhibitions
Sunripened tomatoes, cool cukes, sensuous spearmint, and hip hempseed as an alternative to the gluten containing bulgur wheat that is traditionally used. Brigitte Mars: Vegan Gluten-Free Tabouli Salad
You can resist the opera's vision of redemption but you cannot resist music which enfolds you so completely in a web of sensuous twisting harmonies.
That said, the Cleveland performances were oddly disappointing: inflexible, poker-faced, and without a hint of the sensuous rubato that gives this music its infectious lilt.
Tabouli Salad is a great way to use colorful antioxidant rich fresh produce: Sunripened tomatoes, cool cukes, sensuous spearmint and hip hempseed. Brigitte Mars: Vegan Gluten-Free Tabouli Salad
So he dropped the -al from sensual and substituted -ous, writing, “The Soule … finding the ease she had from her visible, and sensuous colleague the body.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
An ineffable and exquisite smile wreathed her lips, dreamy, sad, sensuous, the supremity of unconscious happiness. To the Last Man
For thousands of years the subjugation of the sensuous faculties has been regarded as a constitutive element of human reason and progress.
You can see the bolero jacket matched with bell-bottom pants or a sensuous tuxedo with lace trousers.
Now a confirmed addict, she trawls Paris in search of salty, sensuous pleasures
Her approach to working on a large scale is exciting, as is her ability to coax such sensuous and elegant shapes from clay. Times, Sunday Times
What he achieves is sensuously shaped architecture in response to its environmental demands.
From within materialised diva-looking courtesans in ivory coloured netted sarees, georgette lehengas and churidars paired with innovative jackets, walked down the ramp sensuously. The Times of India
But there's something more sensuous about "invigilation," the way it rolls off the tongue, something that's diametrically opposed to the definition of the word itself. New fiction: invigilation
The contrast between the ascetic, carceral Hanoi of the 1980s and the sensuous, lively Hanoi of the present is exemplified in the following comments made to me by a Hanoi resident.
Then devote yourselves to relaxing together and maybe sharing a sensuous massage. The Sun
They brought back a sensuousness and emotionalism to art which had been banished by the puritanism of postmodernist theory.
This image represented everything that attracted us to the Provençal slow and sensuous way of life.
The viewer comes away with an appreciation of the sensuous and intellectual pleasure of these paintings.
Beside the barn and in front of the glass-fronted living-room extension are ponds, planted with wild, slightly bushy areas of large-leaved gunnera and flag irises, beside which simple, sensuous nudes will be placed.
Largely because of such enterprises, American entertainment had become a “welter of sensuousness” and “voluptuous abandonment.” A Renegade History of the United States
While it lacks the glamour factor of soft sensuous fur, a shearling's ability to keep out the cold is indisputable.
Black Narcissus, Sister Ruth's transition from the dour, ascetic domain of nunhood into the unfettered, sexualised outside world is heralded by that unforgettable big close up of red lipstick metamorphosing Kathleen Byron's sensuous mouth. DVD Times

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