sensuously
Americanadverb
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in a way that gratifies or delights the senses.
The still life drips sensuously with color, life, and stylistic innovation.
We swooned over the sensuously edible little Nantucket bay scallops, seared but nearly raw, and topped with thin garlic coins.
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in a way that affects or can be perceived by the senses.
An ideal exists outside peoples’ consciousness, unrelated to the external, sensuously perceptible world.
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But the courtroom didn’t hear Gaye’s sensuously sung original recording:
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Barki’s lizard, who is sensuously low-voiced, with an Israeli accent, teases her friend: “That’s such a quarantine Week 1 thing to say.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
In a 1968 review in Artforum, critic Fidel Danieli noted that Alexander’s work evoked something “so sensuously romantic that they recall the luscious and Baroque Rubens more than mechanistic Newtonian physics.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2020
It also refers to “a sensuously curved staircase” with four bedrooms and a “gleaming, all-white kitchen. A roof terrace “is expensively paved with Indiana limestone and has a pergola built of clear Spanish cedar.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2016
The pigs lay, bloated bags of fat, sensuously enjoying the shadows under the trees.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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