Both Uses of
sensuous
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
- They would be alone together soon, with more contradictions—hilarity and sensuousness, desire and fear at their recklessness, awe and impatience to begin.†
Chpt 1 *
- There was nothing but obliterating sensation, thrilling and swelling, and the sound of fabric on fabric and skin on fabric as their limbs slid across each other in this restless, sensuous wrestling.†
Chpt 1sensuous = relating to pleasure from the body's senses rather than from the intellect