All 3 Uses of
sensuous
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- What there was in it of the purely sensuous instinct of boyhood had been transformed by the workings of the imagination, changed into something that seemed to the boy himself to be remote from sense, and was for that very reason all the more dangerous.†
Chpt 3 *
- They wondered how one so charming and graceful as he was could have escaped the stain of an age that was at once sordid and sensuous.†
Chpt 9
- He saw that there was no mood of the mind that had not its counterpart in the sensuous life, and set himself to discover their true relations, wondering what there was in frankincense that made one mystical, and in ambergris that stirred one's passions, and in violets that woke the memory of dead romances, and in musk that troubled the brain, and in champak that stained the imagination; and seeking often to elaborate a real psychology of perfumes, and to estimate the several influences…†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(sensuous) relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect