All 5 Uses
sensuous
in
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
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- Never had that lady seemed a more tempting subject than at that moment, seated there like some sensuous Madonna, with the gleam of the fading day enriching her splendid color.†
Chpt 5sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect
- The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
Chpt 6 *
- The excessive physical charm of the Creole had first attracted her, for Edna had a sensuous susceptibility to beauty.†
Chpt 7
- He stood close to her, and the effrontery in his eyes repelled the old, vanishing self in her, yet drew all her awakening sensuousness.†
Chpt 25
- The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.†
Chpt 39sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect
Definitions:
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(1)
(sensuous) relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)