All 9 Uses
sensual
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
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- He might be thinking she was talking to him in code, suggestively conveying her taste for the full-blooded and sensual.†
Chpt 1 *sensual = relating to pleasing the body's senses
- The unmade bed, the mess of discarded clothes, a towel on the floor, the room's equatorial warmth were disablingly sensual.†
Chpt 1
- The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation—it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.†
Chpt 1
- The silk dress she wore seemed to worship every curve and dip of her lithe body, but the small sensual mouth was held tight in disapproval, or perhaps even disgust.†
Chpt 1
- For fear of his psychiatrist who was also their censor, they could never be sensual, or even emotional.†
Chpt 2
- His most sensual memories—their few minutes in the library, the kiss in Whitehall—were bleached colorless through overuse.†
Chpt 2
- In another context, a different profession, she would have seemed motherly in her plumpness, or even sensual, for her unpainted lips were rich in natural color and sweetly bowed, and her face with its rounded cheeks and doll's patches of healthy pink suggested a kindly nature.†
Chpt 3
- How flagrantly, sensually, it reverberated before the altar when she said, "With my body I thee worship."†
Chpt 3
- Now it looked boldly sensual, with an accentuated bow of the full purplish lips.†
Chpt 3sensual = relating to pleasing the body's senses
Definitions:
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(1)
(sensual) relating to pleasing the body's senses (in contrast to the intellect)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)