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Meanings of sensuous in английском

Sensuous.

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Usage of sensuous in английском
1
From start to finish, merciless analytic power coexisted with helpless sensuous relish.
The Guardian
2
With Olivier it was a crisis of acute love, sensuous and poetic.
Strong as Death
3
The pictures and the statues are generally of the most sensuous kind.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil / Its People and Literature, Its Life...
4
The said lips and mouth were distinctly sensuous in form and fulness.
What I Remember, Volume 2
5
The starting-point was the sensuous perception of the physical qualities of fire.
Nature Mysticism
6
The other was not for the sensuous nature, but for the moral.
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
7
The whole atmosphere of race thought in which we live is sensuous.
The Arena, Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891
8
But the sensuous beauty of art does not exhaust the aesthetic experience.
The Psychology of Beauty
9
The pleasure his word-conjuring can yield is chiefly of the sensuous order.
Balzac
10
Her sensuous nature was tormented by the thought of the last moment.
The Marriage of William Ashe
11
It was no longer vague, sensuous feeling; it was warm, definite desire.
Fraternity
12
Hilary's sensuous feeling almost vanished; a lump rose in his throat instead.
Fraternity
13
Things were become at once more deeply sensuous and more deeply ideal.
Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance
14
A pleasant, sensuous joyfulness seemed part of the spirit of the day.
The Vanished Messenger
15
Sweet, haunting and supremely sensuous, they are produced best in mild spells.
The Guardian
16
When he walked behind her there was a sensuous gleam in them.
Dangerous Days
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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