For centuries silk has had a reputation as a luxurious and sensuous fabric, one associated with wealth and success. |
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We do not think that something is beautiful merely to me, in the way that we might say that some things just happen to give me sensuous pleasure. |
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He's undeniably attractive, with a sensuous mouth that twists with a thin, mocking smile. |
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It is a beautiful opera, full of lush arias, sensuous waltzes, and an intriguing amount of transvestism. |
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And talked about the kind of sensuous pleasure that water on her skin gave her, and how she felt at her most alive when she was in water. |
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She works the vocabulary of dance to move her plots and caresses characters with lush, sensuous descriptions. |
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Far from a dry, theory-heavy show, this is a wonderfully tactile and sensuous exploration of different surfaces. |
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The men's series has no rival for styling, craftsmanship and sensuous touch. |
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The first, much lengthier section of the film is set in the present and is shot in rich, sensuous black and white. |
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Howard's use of paint seems eminently sensuous, as do her colors, which in this show were preponderantly red-hued. |
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It is of course a separate question of whether physical objects do have the sensuous features that they are represented as having. |
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These are the defilements of sensuous desire, ill-will or anger, sloth and torpor, agitation and worry, and doubt. |
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Beautifully textured, sensuous and skin-friendly, it is cool in torrid Indian summers and keeps one warm in winter. |
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While it lacks the glamour factor of soft sensuous fur, a shearling's ability to keep out the cold is indisputable. |
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English speakers understand that in perceiving tomatoes, grapes, etc one is acquainted with sensuous features. |
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There are more sensuous pauses and pensive gulfs between his allegrettos and adagios. |
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He goes for long, sensuous rambles into the woods, often while remembering his childhood friend Lumley. |
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This was considered very sensuous at the time, as filth and animal feces were considered adornments, like sexy lingerie is to modern women. |
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For a sensuous bath, try sandalwood, rose, ylang-ylang, patchouli, neroli or jasmine. |
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You can see the bolero jacket matched with bell-bottom pants or a sensuous tuxedo with lace trousers. |
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The combination of sensuous, sophisticated mark-making and wonky imagery was, as always in Blackwell's work, irresistible. |
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She seems determined to make the even the most unremarkable foods sound gloriously decadent and sensuous. |
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His paintings from then on portrayed gigantic, sensuous and cruel women, with pouting lips, masses of wavy hair and columnar necks. |
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His books portray the animalistic, sensuous, physiological face of humankind. |
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His photographs walk the fine line of documentative anthropology and sensuous beauty. |
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Sharon's rich, sensuous voice coquets above the piano, the drums, the bass. |
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Here, the sensuous wooing of the traditional lover is replaced by a display of coy and squeamish chastity. |
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Gregory Isaacs is practically synonymous with lovers rock, and this sensuous song provides all the explanation necessary. |
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Ford, playing a low-life hustler who cheats at cards and dice, has a soft, dark, sensuous look, sensitive rather than intelligent. |
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I've always been fascinated by the sensuous curves and intriguing angles of flying machines. |
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The leisured progress, the sensuous attention to phrases, coupled with nuances in phrasing, created the reverberations of singing at a durbar. |
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The ruffled hem envelops the legs, and the lace-up peekaboo slit traces the curve of the waist, adding shape to an already sensuous silhouette. |
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He writes in the patois of Barbados, in the voices of village women, a language he makes both playful and sensuous. |
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Both Latin and South America are hot, passionate, and filled with the sensuous beats of the mambo, samba, and tango. |
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The sensuous milk bath is scented with fresh rose petals, kaffir lime and stimulating essential oils. |
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No one art unites strong sensuous and intellectual impressions more distinctly than architecture. |
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The overall look of the Cuban salsa should be sensuous and fluid, with the dancers moving around each other and the floor in circular movements. |
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The music and dance, especially of a sensuous variety, are distinctly Martinican. |
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There is a painterly quality to the finish of the fruit, the sensuous surfaces sprayed and brushed in gradual layers from light to dark. |
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Sinewy and sensuous, these preparatory masterworks are anatomical wonders capturing the longings of the famously impetuous painter. |
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Charleston is a seductive, sensuous place, shimmering with an eroticism like heat lightning. |
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The guava has a bark of smooth brown that flakes off from time to time revealing its sensuous green undergarment. |
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The unifying factor in all this is her desire to give audiences a sensuous experience. |
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After the gentle, sensuous vowels of Latin-American, this language sounds harsh, cruel, authoritarian. |
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These bath cubes are drenched in rich, sensuous mango butter to produce a healthy looking smooth finish to your skin. |
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After a brief introduction, the music becomes a sensuous waltz, filled with regret. |
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The viewer comes away with an appreciation of the sensuous and intellectual pleasure of these paintings. |
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For thousands of years the subjugation of the sensuous faculties has been regarded as a constitutive element of human reason and progress. |
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Try the pecan-stuffed acorn squash, but save room for a sensuous slice of chocolate diablo cake. |
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The restaurant undertakes to provide is patrons with the same feeling of unexampled sensuous gastronomic pleasure. |
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So the overall effect from some distance away was of a green thread that moved steadily, but jiggled and shook like a sensuous conga line. |
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His sensuous mouth is constrained, his carmine lips almost quiver. |
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At the same time his work celebrated the sensuous pleasures of the flesh. |
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Her sensuous, penetrating paintings present an allegorical realm, where beauty is eternal and dreams come true. |
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The dogs have been fried in soybean oil until their exterior skin begins to develop a sensuous crunch. |
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Cromwell actually did declare a War on Christmas, which he deemed to be sensuous paganism. |
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Virginia Woolf came next, with her dazzling, sensuous essays and literary criticism. |
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You can resist the opera's vision of redemption but you cannot resist music which enfolds you so completely in a web of sensuous twisting harmonies. |
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Dining on the lanai at Plumeria Beach is a sensuous experience. |
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Beethoven's six Gellert lieder were hobbled by bad intonation, while the cautious note-to-note rendition of Wagner's Wesendonk songs lacked any sense of their sensuous wonder. |
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Frank Gehry's first building on a rural site is a model performance complex clad in swishing, sensuous steel drapery that animates its Arcadian campus setting. |
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Here, the calm, mystical music already glimpsed in Les enfants is allied with an avowedly Debussian orchestral palette, to produce a luscious work of sensuous religiosity. |
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She had no formal training but developed a rigorous, austere style, counter-pointed by a sensuous use of color, which she maintained for many decades. |
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She breezes through Previn's challenging music as if to the manner born, combining a crystal clear upper register with a wealth of darker, more sensuous colours. |
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She is sensuous, grasping, self-absorbed, fierce, greedy, megalomaniacal, and utterly certain that she is entitled to have her ego, her power, and her way. |
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In a similar manner if there be some truth which has no sensuous or rational relation to human mind, it will ever remain as nothing so long as we remain human beings. |
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This has to be one of the most sensuous, sexy poems I've ever read. |
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His music's lush, even sensuous harmonies make it a joy to sing. |
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I came to realize that it was an unnecessarily mirthless, joyless book and I would like it to be, for one thing, more sensuous, more rounded in a way. |
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The artist would have given him a moistly sensuous mouth, but this man's modest lip is all but covered by a warm brown beard, carefully clipped and combed. |
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Paring form and materiality down to its monastically rigorous bare bones, this new apartment in Milan is a sensuous synthesis of big spaces and ethereal light. |
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Whitman, so deeply sensuous that his poetry has the emotive compulsion of the fairground mountebank, was famous enough to be used in advertisements. |
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The score evolved unpremeditatedly out of the bluesy alto-saxophone melody at once sensuous and acrid, originally written separately as a piece of source music. |
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But it doesn't alter the fact that the display moves up several gears and explodes into a great and sensuous ripeness when the art of the Ottomans finally heaves into view. |
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The following year Krasner abruptly changed direction, returning to a sensuous painterly style in which human, animal, and plant forms play prominent roles. |
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His pear-shaped head, with its thick nose, narrow-set and long-lashed eyes, sensuous mouth and double chin, blends into sloping shoulders and curved arms. |
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She very nearly made Edie feel inadequate by the sheer felinity of her movements, by the sensuous grace of her silent prowl, the lively flicks of her tail. |
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His sensuous music is so full of charm and nostalgic poignancy that I feel it deserves to be heard by a wider musical community than just by flautists. |
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For the reader who doesn't share Harrison's fascination with physical extremity, though, the journey can seem less sensuous or revelatory than furtively pornographic. |
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Removing the softly molded leather from its tissuey nest, Shak marvels at the tilt of the heel and the sensuous line of the arch. |
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The sensuous young Hatusu is now Pharaoh and, having just defeated the Mitanni, is enjoying her power and glory. |
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Her husband puts both hands on her shoulders, and she rubs her face against first one hand, then the other, sensuous as all hell. |
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The sensuous sounds of soul music created a warm atmosphere. |
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But that fun, sensuous persona concealed a history of tragedy. |
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In this performance, Petrenko led a spirited gigue and a sedate, verging on sensuous, minuet. |
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While Katrina looks sensuous, Anushka's role seems to be on the spunkier side. |
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Designed as an urban haven, this modern garden in Tilburg combines sensuous textures, bold colours and inventive landscaping. |
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The caringly sensuous and intimate caress of concentric circles echoes ancient practice of natural and dynamic expressions of humanness. |
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His portrait style, for example, remained distinct from the more sensuous technique of Titian, and from the Mannerism of William Scrots, Holbein's successor as King's Painter. |
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The sweetness of onions still trapped within, the milky flavour of almonds combined with sensuous saffron, played up by the saunth and a hint of spices. |
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Tihany's contribution to the recent expansion of The Joule builds on a sensuous hospitality experience, informed by Texan culture and vibrant downtown energy. |
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Pieter Jansz Saenredam, whose father Jan Saenredam engraved sensuous nude Mannerist goddesses, painted unpeopled views of now whitewashed Gothic city churches. |
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Female smokers in film were also early on associated with a type of sensuous and seductive sexuality, most notably personified by German film star Marlene Dietrich. |
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It's a sensuous yet stylish remix of earthly lavender, bright citrus, moist palm leaf accord, clary sage, sensual woods and smooth Tonka beans and is a very fresh zest scent. |
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