All 4 Uses of
sensuous
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- That would depend upon whether the germs of staunch comradeship underlay the temporary emotion, or whether it were a sensuous joy in her form only, with no substratum of everlastingness.†
Chpt 4 *sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect
- To the aesthetic, sensuous, pagan pleasure in natural life and lush womanhood which his son Angel had lately been experiencing in Var Vale, his temper would have been antipathetic in a high degree, had he either by inquiry or imagination been able to apprehend it.†
Chpt 4
- Moreover, his affection itself was less fire than radiance, and, with regard to the other sex, when he ceased to believe he ceased to follow: contrasting in this with many impressionable natures, who remain sensuously infatuated with what they intellectually despise.†
Chpt 5sensuously = in a way that relates to physical pleasure
- The former curves of sensuousness were now modulated to lines of devotional passion.†
Chpt 6