Example sentences for: sensuous

How can you use “sensuous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Where Matisse is sensuous, Picasso is sexual.

  • The famous FWI women, inevitably wearing bright earrings and flashing colors, manage to be both graceful and sensuous as they walk.

  • The Madonna and saints of Annibale Carracci further paved the way for the Baroque, attracting the faithful with a sensuous image of ideal beauty, while Caravaggio made a more brutal, but no less effective, appeal with a proletarian Mary and barefoot Apostles.

  • There is a spate of worshipful Web sites devoted to her, and a breathless and wildly premature biography by Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal, Cecilia Bartoli: The Passion of Song , which describes her as "a sensuous, embodied angel, standing quietly on a concert stage as she report[s] back to God about the mysterious joys and sorrows of human existence."

  • Who would have expected that in 1934, Petr V. Vilyams could have been making such a rarefied, Vuillard-like canvas as Nana , with its profusion of sensuous patterns and textures, a painting that just reeks of sex?


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