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
Even a simple alphabet by the graffiti artist known as Worm is sensuously pictorial, since it’s rendered in bulbous, smeary and hot-colored letters.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
It springs from deeply rooted impulses to adorn the self, to communicate sensuously, to participate in the social collectivity and lend it shape and legibility.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2020
Could we experience in the everyday space and time obviously and sensuously inseparable?
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 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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