All 5 Uses
sensuous
in
Invisible Man, by Ellison
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- A clarinet was vibrating sensuously and the men were standing up and moving eagerly forward.†
Chpt 1 *sensuously = in a way that relates to physical pleasure
- And then she began to dance, a slow sensuous movement; the smoke of a hundred cigars clinging to her like the thinnest of veils.†
Chpt 1sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect
- "This here Golden Day is enough to shock anybody," a girl said, smoothing her apron over the smooth sensuous roll of her stomach.†
Chpt 3
- I sat, seeing her go toward a door, the train of her gown trailing sensuously over the oriental carpet.†
Chpt 19sensuously = in a way that relates to physical pleasure
- A grinning doll of orange-and-black tissue paper with thin flat cardboard disks forming its head and feet and which some mysterious mechanism was causing to move up and down in a loose-jointed, shoulder-shaking, infuriatingly sensuous motion, a dance that was completely detached from the black, mask-like face.†
Chpt 20sensuous = 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)