sensual
IPA: sˈɛnʃʌwʌɫ
adjective
- Inducing pleasurable or erotic sensations.
- Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory.
- Provoking or exciting a strong response in the senses.
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Examples of "sensual" in Sentences
- She has sensual fashion taste.
- Eros the creator of sensual love.
- The experience of food is sensual.
- The movie is a tableau of sensuality.
- The actress looked charming and sensual.
- It is one of the sensual songs on the album.
- The experience of buildings is sensual, too.
- The fragrance is said to be sensual and warm.
- The party turns into a wild, sensual debauch.
- Yet the city feels undeniably tropical and sensual.
- We do not aim at an increase in sensual pleasures but at a situation in which any man and all men together can develop their full strength.
- The final picture is a highly composite image of events, characters and atmospheres, mediated in sensual language with a deep inherent sense of musicality.
- By conduct, again, is indicated the avoidance of the extreme called sensual gratification; by concentration, the avoidance of the extreme called self-torture.
- Hindu fundamentalists got to hound a highly respected Muslim artist out of the country because he made paintings that depicted Hindu goddesses in sensual poses.
- By adding an e to the word sensual, the manufacturer not only gives a frenchified twist to the term but also enables the “lightly lined underwire” to be trademarked.
- In this appetite resides, or from it proceeds, the love which we call sensual or brutish, which yet properly speaking ought not to be termed love but simply appetite.
- Of pleasures, or delights, some arise from the sense of an object present; and those may be called pleasures of sense (the word sensual, as it is used by those only that condemn them, having no place till there be laws).
- The historian, by a simple stroke, has drawn a graphic picture of an Oriental despot, wallowing with his favorite in sensual enjoyments, while his tyrannical cruelties were rending the hearts and homes of thousands of his subjects.
- Succinct but solemn warnings against vices to which kings are peculiarly tempted, as carnal pleasures and oppressive and unrighteous government are used to sustain sensual indulgence. strength -- mental and bodily resources for health and comfort. thy ways -- or course of life. to that ... kings -- literally, "to the destroying of kings," avoid destructive pleasures (compare Pr 5: 9; 7: 22, 27; Ho 4: 11).