In his work, as in this simile, his sensuousness is mingled with the primitivity of mother earth.
Amongst the Orientals he also found the hotly flaming sensuousness and primitive wildness which beset his imagination with its craving for everything impassioned.
But Fragonard's fine tones and Fragonard's sensuousness were peculiar to him.
Several of his pictures of women, in particular, are touched by an easy grace and a fine charm of poetic sensuousness in which he approaches Gainsborough.
Then when the everlasting grey became too splenetic for him he repaired to the relaxing, luxuriant sensuousness of Southern seas, and sought the full embodiment of his dreams of light in the land of the sun.
Unbridled sensuousness surges through the songs rising to the chambers of noble ladies.
Neither Greece, nor the rest of the Orient has produced anything to compare with its marvellous union of voluptuous sensuousness and immaculate chastity.
Yet a careful student of these Canzoni, Serventesi, and Tenzoni, will discover much that is both natural and graceful, much that is elevated in thought, much again that belongs to the crude sensuousness of Southern temperament.
Here sensuousness has no vulgarity, and the seductions of the flesh are sublimed by feeling to a beauty which is spiritual in refinement.
They were written at the most prosaic moment of the national development, by men who could not afford to substitute the true Italian poetry of irony and idyllic sensuousness for the ancient religious spirit.
It may not be concealed that a note of ardentsensuousness still makes itself felt, as it does in most of the later pieces of the same class.
Considered in itself, and independently of all spontaneous activity of the mind, sensuousness can only make a material man; without it, it is a pure form; but it cannot in any way establish a union between matter and it.
As sensuousnessknows no other end than its interest, and is determined by nothing except blind chance, it makes the former the motive of its actions, and the latter the master of the world.
In a word, in the domain of truth and morality, sensuousness must have nothing to determine; but in the sphere of happiness, form may find a place, and the instinct of play prevail.
But even if the reason does not go astray in its object, or err in the question, sensuousnesswill continue to falsify the answer for a long time.
Without doubt, it is only his sensuousness that makes his strength pass into efficacious acts, but it is his personality alone that makes this activity his own.
This passage warns us that an age of cicisbei and castrati has begun, and that the Italian sensuousness has reached its final dissolution.
The Italian sensuousness too often degenerates into mere sensuality in the period of our inquiry.
The sensuousness of the Italian feeling for mere beauty is tempered with reticence and something of the coldness of Greek marbles.
The sensuousness of Poliziano assumed voluptuous fervor in Pontano's lyrics.
It was against Italian sensuousness that the finer spiritual perceptions of the Teutonic races rose in revolt; and the Italians, who had transmitted their own religious forms to Europe, could not understand the point at issue.
There is an exquisite sensuousness that shows through your words and rounds them into voluptuous swells of rhythm as 'invisible fingers of air' lift the diaphanous gauzes.
Perhaps her first emotion of mere sensuousness was the delicious anticipation of thumb-sucking as Ruby O'Connor propelled her upstairs with the knee, a sensuousness that was only very slightly ruffled by the thought of soap and flannelette.
Danby even denied himself three or four cigarettes so that the magnetic current of sensuousness should not be interrupted.
Sensuousness in music seemed to him as something intolerable, something against public morals, something that should be suppressed by the selectmen.
This work is marked, to an unusual extent, with a sensuousness of color.
For the sensuousness of Shelley gets the upper hand of his somewhat shadowy Platonism, and he creates out of Nature mainly an ethereal world of delicate and rapidly shifting sights and sounds and sensations.
With whatever qualifications, it is certainly one of the great English lyrics, and its union of Renaissance sensuousness with grandeur of conception and sureness of expression foretell clearly enough at twenty the poet of 'Paradise Lost.
Hence his sensuousness is touched with a real spiritual quality.
Shelley's excitable sensuousness produces in him in the presence of Nature a very different attitude from that of Wordsworth's philosophic Christian-mysticism.
It no longer objective we, make abstraction of the sensuousness of our intuition, in other words, of that mode of representation which is peculiar to us, and speak of things in general.
The mode of presenting the subject is still didactic; for in order to be beautiful it is still wanting in the two most distinguished features of beauty, sensuousness of expression and freedom of movement.
Those which have as principle only animal sensuousness belong only, however voluntary we may suppose them to be, to physical nature, which never reaches of itself to grace.
But, on the other hand, real taste excludes all extreme affections, which only put sensuousness to the torture, without giving the mind any compensation.
Under its stern discipline sensuousness appears then repressed, and interior resistance will betray itself exteriorly by the constraint.
There is nothing noble but what has its source in the reason; all that issues from sensuousness alone is vulgar or common.
The character of woman rises rarely to the supreme ideal of moral purity, and would rarely go beyond acts of affection; her character would often resist sensuousness with heroic force.
But the consequences will be quite different when sensuousness and reason have each of them a different interest.
It is the glory of the art of music, that she has almost always been able to resist the drift toward sensuousness and levity, and where she has apparently yielded, her recovery has been speedy and sure.
The mixture of super-sensuousness and sensuality, of religious and amorous rapture, which characterizes mystic thought, has been noticed even by those observers who do not understand in what way it is brought about.
But there is a wonderful tenderness, a nervous sensibility of feeling, an Oriental sensuousness of warmth in his creations which I like better than Victor Hugo's marvellous style.
But the mind which is mainly sensuous by direct action may also work by reflex action, and pass fromsensuousness into sentiment.
Sensuousness has been frequently defined as the paramount bias of Keats's poetic genius.
What sane pianist would, for instance, attempt to play a cantilena with the same appealing sensuousnessas the most mediocre 'cellist can do with the greatest ease?
The virtue of a specific charm, too, attaches as much to the piano as to other instruments, though, perhaps, in a lesser degree of sensuousnessthan to some others.
There she lives in an atmosphere where sensuousness is reproached, though it may be practised.
Normally the idea of marriage in the classes in which Brahman influence is most firm is accompanied by a certain ascetic thought, which holds sensuousnessand enjoyment to be something debasing and earth-bound.
Thus the poem has the imaginative sensuousness which art demands; it is not an argument but a series of vivid experiences, though what is sensuous is here tasked in the service of what is spiritual, and a commentary is added.
If it sinks into the sensuousness of earthly existence, then it is cut off from eternal life; it suffers annihilation like the beast.
In "Il Fuoco" we get the same ethics, philosophy, aesthetics, and glorification of sensuousness that we get in all his other books.
His fellow countrymen could not condone the monstrous offense of depicting therein as the pliant mediator of his perverted sensuousness their beloved actress.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sensuousness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: appeal; charm; enchantment; glamour; grace; loveliness; luxury; passion; witchery
