| 单词 | sensuousness |
| 例句 | They would be alone together soon, with more contradictions—hilarity and sensuousness, desire and fear at their recklessness, awe and impatience to begin. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His chalk approximates the texture of flesh and captures the play of light and dark over the nude forms, giving the figure a greater sensuousness. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z From the sensuousness of a woman with a baby at her breast into the seductive mischief of Krishna’s smile. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In each case, the mixture of post-Wagnerian chromaticism and refined orchestral sensuousness is typical of a style that left an indelible impression on French music for decades. D'Indy Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français; Médée; Saugefleurie – review 2013-04-11T20:45:01Z She has no compelling qualities outside of her sensuousness and her desire to help Ben. ‘Inside the Rain’ Review: A Dramedy About Mental Illness 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z But at the same time Friday’s show suggested the music’s flip side, which is sensuousness. Music Review: Loud and Middle-Aged, But It?s Not a Reunion 2010-10-11T21:15:00Z But an earthly sensuousness is also evident, heralded in poetry praising the Alhambra and its rulers — words that are also part of the palace’s decorative design. Exhibition Review: Temptations Found in Gardens of Islamic Delight 2011-05-20T23:27:00Z The sensuousness of the Ravel in which you are always striving to attain a concrete goal, but it always slips through your hands. Jonathan Nott: conducting the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra 2011-08-12T21:55:18Z Much has been said about the richness of Ondaatje's writing, the sensuousness of his physical descriptions and his poet's gift for using well-timed silences and ellipses to speak volumes. Booker club: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 2011-03-04T11:00:46Z In the adagio pas de deux that followed, her body arched and her neck craned back for maximum closeness with Marcelo Gomes’s Aminta: an eloquent demonstration of Ashton’s feeling for the sensuousness of amorous contact. Dance Review: Ashton’s ‘Sylvia’ Is Revived at American Ballet Theater 2013-06-25T21:14:40Z The sensuousness of the voices, their texture, say a lot in themselves. Emmanuelle Huynh Presents Sensuous Show at St. Mark’s Church 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Directed from the harpsichord with precision by Bicket, the English Concert have a marvellously acute understanding of Handelian sensuousness. Joshua/Connolly/Bicket 2010-04-05T21:30:00Z While the diction is sometimes childlike, even in her maturer poems, their "direct line" to sharp, unmediated experience guarantees them against affectation, and the reader warms to their sensuousness and apparent candour. Poem of the week: The Candle by Katherine Mansfield 2010-07-19T11:11:00Z “I think those qualities are what we bring to the evening — the deep introspection on one hand, and this level of visual noise and visual sensuousness on the other.” ‘Slow Fade to Black,’ at Celebrate Brooklyn! in Prospect Park 2012-06-14T21:52:25Z They alluringly invite him to remain with them and join their forces; they embody both sensuousness and dynamism. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Prince Igor’ Aims to Integrate Movement and Storytelling 2014-03-07T23:01:11Z A solo for Matthew Baker introduces a delicious sensuousness that’s arrestingly broken by cramped gestures. Dance Review: Keigwin + Company in Two Premieres at the Joyce Theater 2012-06-14T21:46:26Z The Daphnis suite, with its Amazon rainforest-like proliferation of vital and intricate ideas, was shaped with a certainty of direction that never compromised the music's inherent sensuousness. Prom 36: BBCSO/Bringuier 2010-08-13T10:48:00Z Perhaps, fearful of losing the attention of their readers, novelists are borrowing the captivating force of music, feeding off its sensuousness in an effort to regain a lost immediacy. Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z "Instead of rushing by works so fast that we don't even muss up our hair, we should tarry, attend to the sensuousness of reading, allow ourselves to enter the experience of words," Lindsay Waters wrote. NH professor pushes for return to slow reading 2010-06-17T14:57:00Z Generally, his work combines a sensuousness of surface, a touch of showmanship and outbreaks of harshness. Serpentine's star pavilions 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z He’s clever, too, in showing how human sensuousness is part of the mix. 2010-01-21T06:42:00Z And yet the emotional sweep, sonic sensuousness and instrumental virtuosity of Mazurek's magnum opus remain unmistakable. Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra brings celestial sounds to the Green Mill 2011-01-08T15:53:00Z The sensuousness of the technique is one reason the local artist titled the exhibition “Seduction.” Review | In the galleries: Doubling down on artworks 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Schjeldahl said of the small art community in Los Angeles in the late 60s: “They shared a serene sensuousness that couldn’t have been more remote from New York’s principled asperity.” A California State of Fashion 2010-09-17T03:19:00Z McCartney would have hated it, but the fur paneling actually worked pretty well, giving his dresses and wide-cut coats a luscious sensuousness. YSL does fall-winter 2011-12 in a nutshell 2011-03-07T23:05:18Z The whole experience will be bathed in a kind of sensuousness unknowable in the digital universe. The story of Super 8: how every man, woman and child became a film-maker 2011-08-08T12:47:38Z Ms. Kikta doesn’t yet show the sensuousness for Coffee, but her statuesque quality, natural spaciousness and keen rhythm made it newly arresting. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ Dancers in This Season’s Performances 2013-12-31T20:45:44Z They have to do with touch, with tenderness, with giving things their proper weight, with accepting and relishing the sensuousness in things, with knowing when to stand back. Review | A 19th-century painting that rivals the Mona Lisa 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Yet there are glimmers of sensuousness in the Touchstone Gallery show, whether in the infrequent bright colors — a gold bar, a red line — or the textures within the muted, monochromatic blocks. Review | In the galleries: ‘Poor art’ is often minimalist, but rich in its impact 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Along with the sensuousness, there was sometimes an emptiness and melancholy reminiscent of Edward Hopper. Wayne Thiebaud, painter of lush colors and textures, dies 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z He wants us to understand its sensuousness while he demonstrates that paintings are in effect “built” from scores of decisions and details, and then proceeds to challenge our definition of his medium. In ‘Robert Ryman,’ One Color With the Power of Many 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Nor was the sensuousness at all mitigated by her pinpoint accuracy and purity of tone. Andris Nelsons Conducts the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Music and dance operate in thrilling proximity; the visual sensuousness is in many ways exceptional; the levels of technical achievement and stylistic polish are high. Critic?s Notebook: Nrityagram Dance and Other Indian Troupes in New York 2012-03-25T23:19:52Z But Bloch used taxidermy to hint at sexual deviance; “Mostly Dead Things” rescues the craft’s physicality, infusing its attention to the body with a this-worldly sensuousness. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z In that role, Verdy said, Fonteyn showed a hitherto unsuspected sensuousness, a quality that Petit knew how to evoke in his ballerinas. Roland Petit: A French Choreographer, Most Savored in France 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z It loses it sensuousness, its resonances all leach away. Kathleen Jamie on writing a book 2012-08-17T21:55:09Z The sensuousness of the textures she weaves is often part of the works themselves. The Textile Artist Employing Centuries-Old Practices and Pop Culture Imagery 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z “The idea that the intellect is somehow alien to sensuousness, or vice versa, is one that I have never been able to connect with,” he told The Paris Review in an interview in 2000. Geoffrey Hill, Dense and Allusive British Poet, Is Dead at 84 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Uchida sensitively highlighted the work’s yearning lyricism, but not its sensuousness or underlying turbulence. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Notes as Delicate as a Crane’s Legs 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z To a less intense degree, “Judy Berlin,” Mr. Mendelsohn’s first feature film, in 1999, had a similar setting and conjured a chillier version of the same sensuousness. | '3 Backyards': What?s Really Beneath Those Manicured Lawns (and Suburban Smiles) 2011-03-11T02:00:47Z “It’s also one of the most beautiful love stories I’ve ever put my hands on — there’s a poetry and a sensuousness to the language of it.” Broadway Revival of ‘Children of a Lesser God’ to Open in April 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Toibin talks about the sensuousness of ideas and attests to the review's impact on him and the lives of residents of far-away Dublin. Scorsese pays homage to New York Review of Books in '50 Year Argument' 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z For the first time, he showed subtlety and sensuousness. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Curnyn, however, has an innate understanding of the immediacy and sensuousness of Vivaldi's work; even though some of the pauses between sections lasted fractionally too long, the performance was terrific. Early Opera Company – review 2012-12-20T18:26:27Z The first half of the Snow dance was the most unusual I’ve seen, with the Flakes shimmying their hips, arching in backbends and fluttering hands voluptuously down their bodies: snow as luxurious sensuousness. Critic?s Notebook: The Smallest Dancers Steal Their Own Show 2010-12-22T23:06:19Z Sonatas and Interludes, as played by Tan, is alive and alert with an intense sensuousness in which every percussive gesture and flicker of colour has an exquisite physicality. Melvyn Tan ? review 2011-08-17T17:43:06Z Her feline sensuousness can appear alluring one moment, and predatory the next, as she and Jean are drawn into a gradual intimacy that threatens to destabilize the rigid class divisions between them. Review: ‘Miss Julie’ Resets a Celebrated Drama in Putin’s Russia 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z There’s sensuousness to Paul’s drift, which, as the camera silkily slips alongside him, suggests a casual luxurious attitude toward life, of being free to do anything, go anywhere, say anything. Review: Christopher Plummer Dominates ‘All the Money in the World’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z In his own case, he added, he was from childhood “drawn to the warmth and sensuousness” of the instrument’s sound. Critic?s Notebook: Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles 2012-03-20T22:13:34Z There was erotic sensuousness and boundless joy, with the dancers at one point echoing the extravagant arm motions common to performers in the underground ballroom scene. In Cassils' first ever dance piece, trans bodies made movement — and a striking canvas 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Aside from its historical significance, the vibrant sensuousness of Dancing Sailors continues to have relevance and appeal for art lovers today. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Wayne Thiebaud, whose luscious, colorful paintings of cakes and San Francisco cityscapes combined sensuousness, nostalgia and a hint of melancholy, died on Dec. 25. Wayne Thiebaud, painter known for depicting cakes and scenes of San Franciso, dies at 101 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z They are designed not to impress an audience but to embrace their wearer with such sensitivity, such sensuousness even, that he can’t help but project confidence — and maybe even a little loucheness. Véronique Nichanian Makes Clothes for the Thinking Man 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z So Titian’s decision to choose scenes from Ovid that offered ample opportunity to paint women’s bodies with the sensuousness for which he was already renowned was certainly calculated. Simply the most beautiful paintings in the world In fact, the tension in Mondrian’s work between rationality and sensuousness led the critic David Sylvester to detect in it a “suppressed violence.” Perspective | There’s rhythm in this Piet Mondrian masterpiece. Is there also code? This propelled her in new directions, toward work that drew from the hard-edge geometries of minimalism but added a more buoyant color palette: brilliant blues, earthy greens and flesh tones that quiver with sensuousness. Judy Chicago says, 'I was being erased' from Southern California art history 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The show’s joyfulness is due as much to its confident aesthetic sensuousness as to its subject matter. The Home-Cooked Pleasures of “Please Like Me” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z One of the stars of the exhibit is Valentino’s cardinal-red taffeta dress that’s priestly in silhouette, but with a low-necked, rustling sensuousness that makes it appear as though it could just slip off the body. ‘A Dress Is Like a Passaporto, No?’ Welcome to Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Valentino 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Her parents divorced when she was young: their marriage, forged in “the excitement and sensuousness and heady intellectual atmosphere of the movement” petered out when the movement did. Attica Locke: ‘When Trump was elected, overnight my book changed. I didn’t alter a word’ 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z With passions ranging from watercolor painting to teaching to theater, Walcott's work was widely praised for its depth and bold use of metaphor, and its mix of sensuousness and technical prowess. Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, Caribbean poet, dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Light and vibrant colour are central to the sensuousness of these images. Photography Today 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z The virtue of a specific charm, too, attaches as much to the piano as to other instruments, though, perhaps, in a lesser degree of sensuousness than to some others. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Roman comedy, on the other hand, gave full play to Italian vivacity and sensuousness with only slight restraint from the higher instincts inherited from ancient discipline. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Without anywhere transgressing the limits of decorum, the Pastor fido is steeped in sensuousness; and the immodesty of its pictures is enhanced by rhetorical concealments more provocative than nudity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Mallarm�'s lazy and indulgent Faun in amorous woodland reverie would not have suggested to him, as to Debussy, music whose sensuousness is as exquisitely concealed as it is marvellously transfigured. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z But it is just because art is so closely connected with sensuousness, that there is such obvious temptation to present the sensuous in false independence, to call forth the mere gratification of the senses. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z What sane pianist would, for instance, attempt to play a cantilena with the same appealing sensuousness as the most mediocre 'cellist can do with the greatest ease? Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z A certain sensuousness lay hid in the lines of the mouth, but it betokened rather an unformed character than a bent of disposition. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Nothing in early German literature comes closer to refined modern sensuousness than Gottfried's best passages; there is a dreamy passion in them, and sometimes they flash. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z The mysticism of d'Indy is pre-eminently religious; it has no tinge of sensuousness; it is large and benign rather than intimate and intense. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z It is full of sensuousness and mystic charm, but although containing several numbers of undeniable beauty, the effect of the work as a whole is decidedly monotonous. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z The same may be said of Rückert's highly finished poems, which transplanted the fragrant flowers of oriental sensuousness and contemplativeness into the garden of German poetry. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Her blood-red lips expressed at once wickedness and sensuousness. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z Sensuality even more than sensuousness has come to mean under the sway of the senses and the bodily desires rather than of the mind. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z By the side of Tito she reminds one of the pure whiteness of marble sculpture as contrasted with the rich glowing sensuousness of a Venetian picture. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Hence its sensuousness is tempered, refined, saddened by philosophy. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z The sensuousness was the cause of the celebrated attack entitled The Fleshly School of Poetry, which was met by Rossetti’s effective rejoinder, The Stealthy School of Criticism. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z It was a demand for an exclusively personal �sthetic, for an art severely divorced from all emotions except the purely intellectual ones, the sensuousness of this school of writers being essentially cerebral. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z It is this objectivity, realism, sensuousness, which constitutes the strength of the Italians, and assigns the limitations of their faculty. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Some of her mental characteristics, too, may have come from it—a certain sensuousness, with the impatience of control already adverted to. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z But there is something deeper than the sensuousness of beauty that makes for the possibilities of the Negro in the realm of the arts, and that is the soul of the race. The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States 2011-01-26T03:00:29.717Z The poet showed that the attack was in great measure unjust, but he would not have sought to deny that there was sensuousness in his poetry. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z The music had reached its climax of wild and passionate sensuousness, dominated and inspired by the woman whose every movement and every glance seemed part of some occult, dimly understood language. The Hillman 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. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The child whose frank sensuousness had horrified him seemed to have passed away. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 Hitherto Oxford had called him back, as to a refuge most severe, from places whose warmth or sensuousness or gaiety was making her cold beauty the more desirable. Sinister Street, vol. 2 But with respect to the allegation of sensuousness, the question for criticism is one of degree. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z The sensuousness of her abandonment drugged all but the sweet present and the poignant ecstasy of possession. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Here sensuousness has no vulgarity, and the seductions of the flesh are sublimed by feeling to a beauty which is spiritual in refinement. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Thy long instrument against Thy god-voluptuous sensuousness of hip Pure iridescent pearl of ocean slopes: Tempestuous silent color-melodies Pulse glimmering from it beaten by the moon,— Soft songs the white hands of white shadows touch.— Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems He had trifled with her sensuousness, and to say that he was too young for blame was cowardly. Sinister Street, vol. 2 From the artistic point of view, it must be said that the sensuousness is sometimes so great as to blur the intellectual outlines. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z This communal despotism strikes at the very foundation of personal virtue, viz. the home, the instrument by which nature lifts human character above the non-moral sensuousness of the animal world. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses These cravings are allegorized in a romance of love, which blends medieval mysticism with modern sensuousness. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z There was a hard, cruel sensuousness about the beautiful mouth which the painter seemed to have captured and fixed beneath the very oils. The Social Gangster Exquisite style, impassioned eloquence and glowing descriptions of nature gained indulgence for the incongruity between the rudeness of the personages and the refinement of the sentiments, and for the distasteful blending of prudery with sensuousness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" And as she lay there in her chair, basking in the warm sunshine, her eyes half closed, she abandoned herself momentarily to the sensuousness of the moment. By Right of Conquest A Novel They are dark-skinned, with raven-black hair and black piercing eyes, presenting a picture of indolence and sensuousness. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia If it sinks into the sensuousness of earthly existence, then it is cut off from eternal life; it suffers annihilation like the beast. Jewish Theology Everything in the world we inhabit conspires to alter in the mirror of literature the picture it reflects; haste, luxury, hysterical sensuousness, race-optimism and race-despair. A Novelist on Novels As their strains die away in the distance the balcony scene between Romeo and Juliet is given by the orchestra alone in a genuine love-poem full of passion and sensuousness. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers There is no "poisonous honey stolen" from anywhere or extracted by himself from anything in Keats; his sensuousness is nothing more than is, in the circumstances, "necessary and voluptuous and right." A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) But the mind which is mainly sensuous by direct action may also work by reflex action, and pass from sensuousness into sentiment. Life of John Keats Still, the thinkers of Judaism have ever labored to divest the Deity of every vestige of sensuousness, of likeness to man, in fact, of every limitation to action or to free will. Jewish Theology Here was more than knowledge; here were representations of a mystic sensuousness, solemn rites, which brought the faithful into immediate contact with the Divine, and guaranteed to them the reception of heavenly powers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Certain hymns in particular seemed to bear her up and carry her into another larger, more wonderful world: "Heart's Abode, Celestial Salem" for example, a world of luminous spiritualized sensuousness. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman There was nothing in the service of ritualistic beauty to arouse a latent sensuousness—nothing of color or form or sound. Clark's Field And these material ends were pursued by those also with whom Christian mysticism, coupled with natural sensuousness, made a unique combination. Woman under socialism As some one has said, "Mohammedans have added a refinement of sensuousness to pagan sensuality." Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It “It is the disease which attacks sensuousness, but it is not the same thing.” The Venetian School of Painting The sumptuous virility of the artist's work is specially suitable for the purpose of sustaining and emphasising that element of lofty sensuousness of the whole impassioned song. Law and Laughter Thus Paris was developing the latent possibilities of sensuousness in this pale offshoot of Puritanism. Clark's Field A still more passionate sensuousness is attested in her hymn to the handsome Atthis. Woman under socialism The lotus which is the sacred lily of the East must not be confounded with the mysterious plant mentioned by Ulysses, and of which Tennyson has sung—the plant of oblivion and sensuousness. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore Steadily, steadily his hands cleft it, the activity of his brain dwindling and dwindling and lapsing at length into a mere self-abandonment to the sensuousness of the motion. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real He has eliminated the subtle sensuousness which has its own allure in the drawing. Holbein It does not impress one as representing power or grandeur, but rather sensuousness and human love. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Unbridled sensuousness surges through the songs rising to the chambers of noble ladies. Jewish Literature and Other Essays When musicians came into the courtyard she closed the windows in order not to hear them: the sensuousness of music moved her very soul. Germinie Lacerteux He was smiling, and for some reason his smile appeared a trifle inane, while there was certainly a hint of sensuousness in his face. Hawtrey's Deputy When he speaks of such places the mere admixture in his tone of the material sensuousness of the eighteenth century with something new and thrilling and different has itself an appealing charm. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations No doubt there was mixed with her spiritualism, or perhaps underlying it, a rich sensuousness that under other circumstances p. 189of life would have made itself manifest, and also a rare potentiality of deep passion. Old Familiar Faces His intellect and his sensuousness, of Jewish origin, were wedded with Rhenish fancy and blitheness, and over these qualities the pale moonshine of romanticism shed its glamour. Jewish Literature and Other Essays They have that feminine sensuousness which delights in color, and odor, and richness of fabric. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) His later books are less imitative; the influence of Verlaine and Baudelaire is not so apparent; the sophistication is less cynical, the sensuousness more restrained. Modern British Poetry Yorick’s whim and sentiment are quite wanting, and the sensuousness, especially as pertains to corporeal beauty, is distinctly Goethean. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century But the thing that drew him to the beautiful girl had nothing to do with this chance incident; nor was there the slightest trace of sensuousness in his feelings. The Goose Man The sense of spring's reviving influence had not yet given way to the full languor and sensuousness of summer. The Uncalled A Novel The elementary factors—sound, movement, colour, in short, the whole sensuousness of music—suffice. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. A man can stand a much greater amount of sensuousness in his composition than a woman. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 The Mystic, at the beginning of the path wavers between spirit and sensuousness. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity This work is marked, to an unusual extent, with a sensuousness of color. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions In him, as in his cousin—his pattern—ran a vein of tact when the crisis demanded, through and between the stratum of bold sensuousness and selfishness which made up the basis of his character. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills The epithets are well chosen; but the usual wildering sensuousness of Tennyson's glowing imagery is subdued and tender throughout the progress of this melancholy tale. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Then the prosceniums of the theaters framed pageants of Oriental sensuousness—scenes of hallucinatory seductiveness and splendor, through which, to a blare of startling music, bounded swarms of half-naked bodies jingling with jewels. Sacrifice He cannot yet grasp the full value of spirit, yet sensuousness has already lost its former attraction. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity There is no deep emotion, there is no sensuousness, there is no glowing color, no 'color of deciduous days.' Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The same 'terrible gift of familiarity,' the same talent of finding favour and swaying popular assemblages, the same sensuousness, bold courage, and great generosity were found in this early orphaned, thrice widowed heiress of Provence. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 This, of course, she knew, as she knew all my thoughts, and, knowing my limitations, tolerated and forgave the element of sensuousness in my passion. To Whom This May Come 1898 They were clear-cut, with a purity of the lines of the nose and brow seldom seen in a woman's face, dark, well-arched eyebrows, a pretty mouth which had just escaped extreme sensuousness. The Doctor of Pimlico Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime After an age of peace do your sons wax soft, their weakness Shown in a love of ease, of sensuousness, and sleekness; Then, lest a nation die, Loud rings my battle-cry! New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 Not childish, but mature; for I could not miss in its aspect, a warmth, a quality of sensuousness. Tarrano the Conqueror The Stoic in woman has been seen once only, and that in the only woman in whom there has been seen the paradox of passion without sensuousness. Figures of Several Centuries He was searching for a majesty beyond sensuousness, by which sensuous experience is transformed into greater and more enduring shades of beauty. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets This cheap Italian music, sugar-coated in its sensuousness, the awful borrowings from Weber, Marschner, Beethoven, and Gluck—and the story! Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques The time was not far off when the opera prima donna was to become the incarnation of the artistic sensuousness which had beguiled Italy with a dream of Grecian resurrection. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera The other man has a greater sensuousness, completeness, inventiveness perhaps. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Her indolent, half-disdainful manner sheathed a soft sensuousness that held the provocation of sex appeal. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North We avoid sensuousness only by resorting to simple negation. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry It is because of Bach that I have forsworn my dislike of the later Wagner, and unlearned my disgust at his overpowering sensuousness. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques But they had, too, a capacity for cruelty and frank sensuousness that belongs only to the childhood of a race. Steve Yeager The organizing power of Europe is married to the sensuousness of Asia. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers He would deny another the title of poet because his verse has not the Miltonic qualities of simplicity, of sensuousness, of passion. The Last Harvest Free animal spirits, laughing madonnas, raving nymphs, excited children of the wood, and angels of the sky pass and repass through his pictures in an atmosphere of pure sensuousness. A Text-Book of the History of Painting These poems form a revelation of the agony of a spirit of superabundant refinement and native sensuousness suddenly stunned, and as it were momentarily petrified, by horrible spiritual anguish. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters The vivid contrast of olive cheeks, carmine lips and dark eyes, gave stress to her slender sensuousness. The Lighted Match There runs through all his poetry that sensuousness of feeling which seeks the repose and luxury of faith which Rome always offers to her ardent votaries. Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors Now and then the tip of his tail curled and uncurled with an indescribable effect of sensuousness. The Debtor A Novel They are related to the subject under discussion, inasmuch as they, too, are the result of a lack of harmony between sensuousness and love. The Evolution of Love Therefore, it must contain the human element of mere sensuousness in order to be intelligible. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University The soft sensuousness of that warm spring night, with its perfumed silence, its subtly luxurious setting, stole through his senses like a narcotic. The Lighted Way His face, in the lamp's full light, softened, but there was in it no hint of sensuousness to prepare one for this indulgence in luxurious bibliomania. A Hoosier Chronicle From this marriage of the barbaric vigor of the North with the delicate and infinitely pliable sensuousness of the South, the classic union of Strength and Desire, Chivalry was born. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 What was really the final cause of the hostility to sensuousness displayed by dualistic mediaeval Christianity? The Evolution of Love Everywhere was the air not only of comfort, but of ease and luxury, elegance and sensuousness contending. 54-40 or Fight In these, what Milton meant by passion, simplicity and sensuousness were banished, and imagination existed only as it exists in a prose writer. The Poetry Of Robert Browning A soft cream cheese can be obtained at some farms, and sometimes holds the same delicate melting sensuousness that is found in the poems of John Keats. The Complete Book of Cheese As a whole they are singularly free from sexual sensuousness, which is so often a trait in songs of their type. Edward MacDowell Here the remotest limit has been reached—sensuousness seems to flow into eternity, voluptuousness would shatter the world to pieces and create a new relationship of things. The Evolution of Love Up till now her dominating charm had been a kind of timeless softness and sensuousness, which breathed from her whole personality—from her fair skin and hair, her large, smiling eyes. The Marriage of William Ashe The passion by which he is swayed is never, in its expression, ambiguous or exotic, his sensuousness is never luscious. Edward MacDowell All these works are more than readable: the translations, though rugged and unmusical, have about them a frank sensuousness and a primitive force that are amusing and attractive. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 He knows the emerald route and all the semitones of sensuousness. Promenades of an Impressionist The climax and unique example of sensuousness, unsurpassed for its symbols of the physical embrace, is the hymn: "Few know the Secret of Love." The Evolution of Love In his mind and in his work there is a southern, an Italian, sensuousness. Essays Æsthetical It may not be concealed that a note of ardent sensuousness still makes itself felt, as it does in most of the later pieces of the same class. The Later Works of Titian But Giorgione's sensuousness is that which may fitly characterise the goddess, while Titian's is that of the woman, much nearer to the everyday world in which both artists lived. The Earlier Work of Titian Why does he not preserve him from the distress of that sensuousness which flowers in his flesh and falls back on him again like spittle? The Inferno Before this poem all ecstasies of sensuousness masquerading as cosmic emotion are dull and timid. The Evolution of Love Art has been recommended as a mediator between reason and sensuousness, between inclination and duty, as the reconcilor of all these elements constantly warring with one another. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The two Bonifazi of Verona followed Palma, giving, however, to the loveliness of their women not, indeed, a more exalted character, but a less pronounced sensuousness—an added refinement but a weaker personality. The Later Works of Titian In both instances we have the Giorgionesque conception stripped of a little of its poetic glamour, but retaining unabashed its splendid sensuousness, which is thus made the more markedly to stand out. The Earlier Work of Titian The quality of line and the sensuousness of colour nowhere cast their spells over us more strangely than in Giorgione's pictures, and by these means he wrought "effects" such as no artist has surpassed. Giorgione If the love-death is the immortalisation of love unable to find satisfaction on earth, so its counterpart, cosmic sensuousness is, in the last sense, orientalism. The Evolution of Love In a corrected version, the sensuousness of our English translation disappears in the ordinary richness of Eastern imagery, and the poem becomes a pure picture of loyal love. The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible Stripped of its dreamy diction, there is even a tropical residue of sensuousness, to which the English language is prone to give a plainer name. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes And her mouth, with its perfume of cinnamon and incense, of Asiatic forests haunted with sensuousness and intrigue, was now …! Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel The artist is taught to worship line and surface; his early paths are the paths of sensuousness. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel This union occurred at the time when Goethe and Novalis were bringing spiritual love and cosmic sensuousness to their highest summit. The Evolution of Love While he shared with the Venetians their sensibility to nature, he had none of their sensuousness or love of pomp. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts A victim of licentiousness and sensuousness, who often, amid his sinful pleasures, had the memory of Christian parents before him, felt his was indeed a life of shame. The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer He was experiencing the great sensuousness of one who finds himself seated at table in a well-warmed dining-room and sees through the window the tempestuous sea tossing a bark that is struggling against the waves. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel But Venus, the voluptuous, the wanton,—no sensuousness pervading any religion of this era finds in her its fitting type and sign. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 In the light of this higher intuition sensuousness was bound to appear base and degrading. The Evolution of Love The incarnation promised by the arts involved a corresponding sensuousness. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts Mobile, humorous, sensitive, the sensuousness of the lower lip corrected by the firmness of the upper. Fanny Herself And at the same time the remembrance of the delights of Naples, of that long imprisonment in a harem pervaded with unlimited sensuousness was reborn in his mind. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel He was evidently fond of good living, and traces of Asiatic sensuousness seem out of place amidst Spartan simplicity. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The task of establishing the equilibrium between love and sensuousness has not yet been accomplished. The Evolution of Love As meteors become luminous by traversing the grosser element of our terrestrial atmosphere, so the thoughts that art employs must needs immerse themselves in sensuousness. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts The former curves of sensuousness were now modulated to lines of devotional passion. Tess of the d'Urbervilles It quite lacks the simplicity and sensuousness of Milton's canon, and as for passion, it is florid rather than passionate. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller It was a face Greek in its perfection, brightened by western force and softened by some flitting touch of sensuousness and mysticism. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day It was only the general sensuousness that was upon him. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man I watched your face warm with multifold impressions, your nostrils dilate with sensuousness, appreciation, your pagan head above the perfect bosom; about you the languid eyes of your well-fed neighbors. Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories There was about it a sensuousness, a deliberate quest of luxury and gaiety, which a raw son of poverty could feel though he could not put it into words. The History of David Grieve Walter Pater's reason for rejecting philosophy as a handicap to the poet was that philosophy robs the world of its sensuousness, as he believed. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years The dreamy warmth of the fire absorbed her more direct feelings, and for some moments she dozed in a haze of dim sensuousness and emotive numbness. A Mummer's Wife But the incarnation of religion in art defeated its own ends; sensuousness was introduced in place of the calm, unearthly spirituality of the earlier masters. Fra Bartolommeo Shelley's excitable sensuousness produces in him in the presence of Nature a very different attitude from that of Wordsworth's philosophic Christian-mysticism. A History of English Literature He walks to his lodging in a neighbouring village, where trifling circumstances point to a refined sensuousness, self-indulgence, and sophistry in his character, leading to the neglect of serious duty. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction You could see through the gown, through the flesh of that frail figure, so lacking in sensuousness yet so glowing with a quiet fire, to the soul itself. Over the Pass He had the reticent, dreamy, procrastinating inertia of the bilious melancholic man, side by side with the impressionable sensuousness, the sensitiveness and sentimentalism of the most sanguine-nervous type. Saxe Holm's Stories They were quite alone up there on the ramparts, and the sensation that she was overmastering him stirred a wild sensuousness in his blood. Three John Silence Stories Hence his sensuousness is touched with a real spiritual quality. A History of English Literature She opened her nostrils and inhaled it with a mystic sensuousness; then she closed her lids. Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul. The sensuousness of the poet's imagination is still, unbelievably, developing, and has yet further to go. The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 The ideal which I strive to realize in my life is the serene sensuousness of the Greeks—pleasure without pain. Venus in Furs 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. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller 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. A History of English Literature Through the image, the poet confers upon his art some of the sensuousness which it would otherwise lack. The Principles of Aesthetics She was about half white, and her face was singularly expressive of sensuousness and indolent recklessness. Success with Small Fruits Her voice was a soft contralto, caress-ing and full of feeling, with a touch of the languor and delicate sensuousness of the Old South. The One Woman On the other hand, the contest with affection is a contest with sensuousness, and consequently presupposes something that is distinct from sensuous nature. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Others of his distinctive traits are lavish alliteration, rich sensuousness, grandiose vagueness of thought and expression, a great sweep of imagination, and a corresponding love of vastness and desolation. A History of English Literature The sense of the tragic increases and declines with sensuousness. Beyond Good and Evil 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 Critique of Pure Reason Hence a wild, convulsed sensuousness in the poetry of the Middle Age, in which the things of nature begin to play a strange delirious part. Aesthetic Poetry But, on the other hand, real taste excludes all extreme affections, which only put sensuousness to the torture, without giving the mind any compensation. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller What he had attained so far had been the mastery of that earlier Florentine style, with its naïve and limited sensuousness. The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry Still the music from the other room with cheap, flippant sensuousness stole through the burdened air: "Singing, it will flourish till the world's last year—" He looked at the writing vaguely, blindly. The Judgment House Debussy's attitude toward Nature seems to have a kind of sensual sensuousness underlying it, while Thoreau's is a kind of spiritual sensuousness. Essays Before a Sonata His spirituality separated him from sensuousness, and caused the selfish materialist 51:30 to hate him; but it was this spirituality which enabled Jesus to heal the sick, cast out evil, and raise the dead. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures There is nothing noble but what has its source in the reason; all that issues from sensuousness alone is vulgar or common. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Greek sensuousness, therefore, does not fever the conscience: it is shameless and childlike. The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry She was by nature sensuous, and her sensuousness stifled in her all perception of right or wrong. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza She had been seized by a wave of sensuousness, a desire to conquer and bring to her feet this rebellious young man. Virgin Soil Discerning Christ, Truth, anew on the shore of time, they were enabled to rise somewhat from mortal sensuousness, or the burial of mind in matter, into new- 35:9 ness of life as Spirit. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures 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. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller What he had attained so far had been the mastery of that earlier Florentine style, with its naive and limited sensuousness. The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Now I think it is this sensuousness, this passion, and, above all, this simplicity that are most wanted in this promising revolt of our time. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays True controlling sensuousness cannot be manifested in the most active dispositions, nor again in the most accurate. The Financier, a novel Desnoyers surmised that the man had formerly lived in tranquil and vulgar sensuousness, in a middle-class happiness suddenly cut short by war. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse But the consequences will be quite different when sensuousness and reason have each of them a different interest. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Greek sensuousness, therefore, does not fever the blood; it is shameless and childlike. The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry He shifted his hand along her arm with soft sensuousness, and she, looking down at his lips, remembered the long tingling they had given hers the first time they had met. The Valley of the Moon A learned Japanese speaks with approval of Idealism as a "dream where sensuousness and spirituality find themselves to be blood brothers or sisters." Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought She opened her nostrils and inhaled with a mystic sensuousness; then she closed her lids. A Simple Soul The good is also an object of sensuousness, but not of an immediate sensuousness, as the agreeable, nor moreover of a mixed sensuousness, as the beautiful. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller "Something of a dandy," inadequately described the repellent sensuousness of this veritable potentate, who could contrive to invest a sitting room in a modern hotel with the atmosphere of a secret Eastern household. Fire-Tongue Strength balanced sensuousness and had upon it a tonic effect, compelling him to love beauty that was healthy and making him vibrate to sensations that were wholesome. Martin Eden 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. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller The sentence which reason pronounces, will it be favorable or the contrary to the interest of sensuousness? Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller Under its stern discipline sensuousness appears then repressed, and interior resistance will betray itself exteriorly by the constraint. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller For an object to be called sublime it must be in opposition with our sensuousness. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller In general it is possible to conceive but two different relations between the objects and our sensuousness, and consequently there ought to be two kinds of resistance. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller |
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