All 12 Uses of
sensual
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Her face was made of angular planes, the shape of her mouth clear-cut, a sensual mouth held closed with inflexible precision.†
Chpt 1.1
- She lay half-stretched across the corner of a couch, her body relaxed and still; but tension stressed the shape of her mouth on her motionless face, a sensual shape drawn in lines of longing.†
Chpt 1.4
- It seemed startling in that office, incongruous with the sternness of the rest: it was a touch of sensuality.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- He taught her every manner of sensuality he could invent.†
Chpt 1.5
- His fingers were moving slowly, feeling the texture of the stones with sensual enjoyment.†
Chpt 1.5
- Instead of finding it crude, she found it strangely attractiveas if, she thought suddenly, as if sensuality were not physical at all, but came from a fine discrimination of the spirit.†
Chpt 1.5
- He saw the firm, sensual mouth in sharp outline.†
Chpt 1.7
- She saw him smile for the first time, a slow, mocking, sensual smile that stressed the purpose of his action.†
Chpt 1.8
- They were stems of Hawaiian Torch Ginger, three feet tall; their large heads were cones of petals that had the sensual texture of soft leather and the color of blood.†
Chpt 2.1
- The huge blanket of fur made her look like a child bundled for a snowstorm; the luxurious texture transformed the innocence of the awkward bundle into the elegance of a perversely intentional contrast: into a look of stressed sensuality.†
Chpt 2.1
- That special pleasure she had felt in watching him eat the food she had prepared-she thought, lying still, her eyes closed, her mind moving, like time, through some realm of veiled slowness-it had been the pleasure of knowing that she had provided him with a sensual enjoyment, that one form of his body's satisfaction had come from her….†
Chpt 3.2
- Have I experienced the most violent form of sensual pleasure?†
Chpt 3.3
Definition:
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(sensual) relating to pleasing the body's senses (in contrast to the intellect) -- especially of sexual sensation