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relating to pleasing the body's senses (in contrast to the intellect) — especially of sexual sensation

"Talk to me," she finally said, her voice sensual.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Notebook

sensual = pleasing to the body's senses (in contrast to the intellect)

I find your love for our children very sensual and exciting.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Notebook

sensual = relating to pleasing the body's senses (in contrast to the intellect) — especially of sexual sensation

Finally she speaks softly, her voice angelic, sensual.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Notebook

sensual = relating to pleasing the body's senses (in contrast to the intellect) — especially of sexual sensation

She'd called it a picture of her dreams, and to him it had seemed extremely sensual.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Notebook

sensual = relating to pleasing the body's senses (in contrast to the intellect) — especially of sexual sensation

He was particularly in love that day, but did not experience any sensual desire for her.
Tolstoy, Leo -- Father Sergius
music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
a sensual delight in eating
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
Leonardo da Vinci
No one had ever informed him before that his eyes were charming and that he had a sensual mouth.
Maugham, W. Somerset -- Of Human Bondage
Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses...
William Carlos Williams
She gave herself up to a sensual delight in the combinations of words.
Woolf, Virginia -- Night and Day
For hers was not a sensual, pleasure-loving nature.
le Gallienne, Richard -- The Quest of the Golden Girl
[The luxurious sobbing, the sensual murmur fade away under the swelling music of the 'blue piano' and the muted trumpet.
Tennessee Williams -- A Streetcar Named Desire
Stupefied by soma, and exhausted by a long-drawn frenzy of sensuality, the Savage lay sleeping in the heather.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
Blankly, she looked around for Peabody, saw the shimmering red drapes that were supposed to add sensuality to a room designed for quick, cheap sex.
J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
The fact is this monstrous difference in age and development excites your sensuality!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
There was something sensual and horrible the way he put his mouth to the glass.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
The imperfections of his mind run parallel with those of his body, being a composition of spleen, dullness, ignorance, caprice, sensuality, and pride.
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels

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