All 3 Uses of
sensuous
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Sons and Lovers
- And George Coppard, proud in his bearing, handsome, and rather bitter; who preferred theology in reading, and who drew near in sympathy only to one man, the Apostle Paul; who was harsh in government, and in familiarity ironic; who ignored all sensuous pleasure:—he was very different from the miner.†
Chpt 1.1
- Therefore the dusky, golden softness of this man's sensuous flame of life, that flowed off his flesh like the flame from a candle, not baffled and gripped into incandescence by thought and spirit as her life was, seemed to her something wonderful, beyond her.†
Chpt 1.1
- His nature was purely sensuous, and she strove to make him moral, religious.
Chpt 1.1 *sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect
Definition:
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(sensuous) relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect