sensuousness
IPA: sˈɛnʃʌwʌsnʌs
noun
- (uncountable) The property of being sensuous.
- (countable) The product or result of being sensuous.
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Examples of "sensuousness" in Sentences
- As a whole they are singularly free from sexual sensuousness, which is so often a trait in songs of their type.
- In the sensitive curve of her mouth there was a kind of sensuousness; in her low voice, in her pallor, in the slim grace of her
- Largely because of such enterprises, American entertainment had become a “welter of sensuousness” and “voluptuous abandonment.”
- The Swing Chair is an ergonomic and fine chair, characterized by the fresh sensuousness and the precious delicacy of old-fashioned textile lace-works, ideal both for residential or contract use.
- Brown says that it comes from "... memories of childhood, my grandmother's curtains, infatuation with pop culture, screen sirens of the '40s and '50s, the sweet, sensuousness of a beautiful woman..."
- In both instances we have the Giorgionesque conception stripped of a little of its poetic glamour, but retaining unabashed its splendid sensuousness, which is thus made the more markedly to stand out.
- Sierra Madre Car Port 2, Up Against the Wall, Closed, Mark Twain Hotel, Broadway Alley, $3 Parking, Santa Ana off ramp...et al ... there is as Rothko was fond of saying a "sensuousness" present in the notans of those works.
- In this knowledge the soul begins to render His due to God; that is, glory and praise to His Name, loving Him above everything, and the neighbour as one's self, with eager desire for virtue; and the soul bestows hate and displeasure on itself, hating in itself vice, and its own sensuousness, which is the cause of every vice.
- In a word, Adrienne was the most complete, the most ideal personification of SENSUALITY -- not of vulgar, ignorant, non intelligent, mistaken sensuousness which is always deceit ful and corrupted by habit or by the necessity for gross and ill-regulated enjoyments, but that exquisite sensuality which is to the senses what intelligence is to the soul.
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