sensuous
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Geometry competes with sensuous paint-handling and lush color.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025
Zhang evokes the sensuous delight of working with fresh ingredients in a time when certain flavors are essentially extinct.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2023
Though written on the eve of a cataclysmic war, the piece is dreamy, sensuous, mesmeric — and deliciously detailed as only Ravel can be.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2023
The Odissi style here is less sensuous in its signature S-curves, and more rhythmically incisive.
From New York Times • May 10, 2023
Notwithstanding this large body of theory, the role of color in art rests primarily on its sensuous and emotive appeal, in contrast to the more cerebral quality generally associated with line.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.