sensuousness
- a word derived from sensuous.
Example Sentences
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These are the glory of Cycladic art, distinguished by their stylized forms, folded arms and blank faces — except for little wedge-shaped noses — also by their understated sensuousness and reverberating stillness.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
The century’s divine Swedish keeper of the electronic pop flame returned from her long hiatus with tunes, feelings, independence, humor, and superhumanity intact, but with a lusher philosophical sensuousness that at times recollects Kate Bush.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2018
The show’s joyfulness is due as much to its confident aesthetic sensuousness as to its subject matter.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
They have to do with touch, with tenderness, with giving things their proper weight, with accepting and relishing the sensuousness in things, with knowing when to stand back.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2018
They were written at the most prosaic moment of the national development, by men who could not afford to substitute the true Italian poetry of irony and idyllic sensuousness for the ancient religious spirit.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington