All 11 Uses
sensuous
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Look Homeward, Angel
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- Gant, faced with the loss of sensuous delight, knowing the time had come when all his Rabelaisian excess in eating, drinking, and loving must come under the halter, knew of no gain that could compensate him for the loss of libertinism; he felt, too, the sharp ache of regret, feeling that he had possessed powers, had wasted chances, such as his partnership with Will Pentland, that might have given him position and wealth.†
Chpt 1sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect
- And from the mellow gloom of the church, the rich distant organ, the quiet nasal voice of the Scotch minister, the interminable prayers, and the rich little pictures of Christian mythology which he had collected as a child under the instruction of the spinsters, he gathered something of the pain, the mystery, the sensuous beauty of religion, something deeper and greater than this austere decency.†
Chpt 1
- Of the delicate and sensuous intelligence of the Greeks, their feminine grace, the constructive power and subtlety of their intelligence, the instability of their character, and the structure, restraint and perfection of their forms, he said nothing.†
Chpt 2
- She had very thick black hair, straight and oily, and very black eyes, giving a heavy sensuousness to her face.†
Chpt 2 *
- She liked the fire and the radiance of warmth: sleepily alert she sat by the stove, with her legs spread, sucking in the heat, her large earth strength more heavily sensuous than her brother's.†
Chpt 2sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect
- Bitterly he reflected that his father's life had devoured whatever had served it, and that few men had had more sensuous enjoyment, or had been more ruthless in their demands on others.†
Chpt 2
- As his load lightened with the progress of his route, his leaning shoulder rose with winged buoyancy, his straining limbs grew light: at the end of his labor his flesh, touched sensuously by fatigue, bounded lightly from the earth.†
Chpt 2sensuously = in a way that relates to physical pleasure
- He wakened at once, sensuously alert.†
Chpt 2
- She was a powerful old lady, six feet tall, with the big bones of a man, and a heavy full-jawed face, sensuous and complacent, and excellently equipped with a champing mill of strong yellow horse-teeth.†
Chpt 2sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect
- She had thick hair of an oaken color, evenly parted in the middle; her skin was pearl-pale, and transparently delicate; her jaw was long, full, and sensuous—her face was like that of one of the preRaphaelite women.†
Chpt 3
- She carried her tall graceful body with beautiful erectness, but with the slightly worn sensuousness of fragility and weariness: her lovely eyes were violet, always a little tired, but full of slow surprise and tenderness.†
Chpt 3
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)