All 11 Uses
sensuous
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An American Tragedy
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- The truth in regard to Esta was that in spite of her guarded up-bringing, and the seeming religious and moral fervor which at times appeared to characterize her, she was just a sensuous, weak girl who did not by any means know yet what she thought.†
Chpt 1sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect
- To him, dull as he was, she was just another girl—fairly pretty, obviously sensuous and inexperienced, a silly who could be taken by a few soft words—a show of seemingly sincere affection, talk of the opportunity of a broader, freer life on the road, in other great cities, as his wife.†
Chpt 1
- If only he could have a girl as pretty as this Hortense Briggs, with her small, sensuous mouth and her bright hard eyes.†
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- She was attempting to show him a new step in a genial and yet coquettish way, and with an amused, sensuous look.†
Chpt 1
- Her gestures, her poses, moues and attitudes were sensuous and suggestive.†
Chpt 1
- And deliberately, and of a purpose, she made a pursy, sensuous mouth—the kind she could make—and practised a play of the lips that caused them to seem to want to kiss him—a mouth that tempted him to distraction.†
Chpt 1
- And when Clyde was introduced to her, she beamed upon him in a melting and sensuous way which troubled him not a little.†
Chpt 2
- The fair, plump, sensuous Rita!†
Chpt 2
- And yet again there was the stocky and yet gay Flora Brandt, a decidedly low class American type of coarse and yet enticing features, black hair, large, swimming and heavily-lashed black eyes, a snub nose and full and sensuous and yet pretty lips, and a vigorous and not ungraceful body, who, from day to day, once he had been there a little while, had continued to look at him as if to say—"What!†
Chpt 2
- At the same time, because of a warm, imaginative, sensuous temperament, she was filled—once she reached fifteen and sixteen—with the world-old dream of all of Eve's daughters from the homeliest to the fairest—that her beauty or charm might some day and ere long smite bewitchingly and so irresistibly the soul of a given man or men.†
Chpt 2
- And later it was Flora Brandt, the very sensuous and not unpleasing American girl whom Roberta had seen Clyde cultivating from time to time.†
Chpt 2
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)