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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“He transported curving movements of concentrated simplicity — an arm slowly dropping, a leg stretching sensuously — into a joyous pas de deux.”
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2023
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
Could we experience in the everyday space and time obviously and sensuously inseparable?
From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2019
At the other is Purifoy’s astounding painting “Watts Riot,” made from salvage gathered in the wake of the disastrous 1965 event and arguably the most sensuously beautiful work of art ever wrenched from conflagration.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2019
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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