(v. i.) Existing, or made, by the mutual consent of two or more parties.
(v. i.) Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(2) Productivity growth makes it possible for well-organised labour movements to apply political pressure to reduce workloads, resulting in consensual legislative strategies on the part of states.
(3) Hope u feel better xx” Bird told Channel 4’s political editor Michael Crick: “Natasha Bolter and I were in a consensual relationship between 18 September and 2 November, well after her admission to the list of approved candidates.
(4) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
(5) Since the coincidence of radiological and intraoperative findings was only 67%, the ophthalmological findings such as lack of direct pupil reaction with preserved consensual light reaction or progressive loss of vision after a corresponding traumatic incident are our guideline for performing transethmoidal decompression of the optic nerve.
(6) Is voice search really going to catch on, or is it some sort of consensual hallucination by the tech industry?
(7) Paterson added in the letter, published on the PoliticsHome website : "However, the government is rightly committed to advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and has already taken action to do so by allowing those religious premises that wish to carry out civil partnerships to do so, erasing historic convictions for consensual gay sex and putting pressure on other countries that violate the human rights of LGBT people.
(8) Teela Sanders , another academic who believes that regulation of prostitution is neither desirable nor possible, says of moves to criminalise punters: "Putting limits on private morality with regard to the legitimate purchase and provision of consensual commercial sex is evidence of a state seeking to control sexuality rather than to preserve diversity, difference and freedom."
(9) But will we continue to push forward the frontiers, enlarging the range of our consensual understanding?
(10) It needs constant improvement and extensions in order to reach a consensual attitude towards this king of suffering but also towards other situations of pain care management frequently encountered in cancer patients as well as those with other pathologies.
(11) Kaletsky thinks the president, whose power is waxing, can now "dictate the broad terms of a budgetary truce" to Republicans, and that "the approaching budget and debt negotiations should prove surprisingly consensual and calm."
(12) As Trump’s dystopia becomes a reality, the nostalgia for his calm, measured and consensual solutions has begun early.
(13) The best method for detecting relative afferent pupillary defects using the alternating light test is to compare contraction amplitudes, looking for consensual responses that are greater than direct responses.
(14) I want this to happen in a consensual, sensible, non-inflammatory way and that's why I've been so reticent about it."
(15) In the fellow saline-injected eyes, a clear consensual response was observed with regard to the extravasation of protein, although the uveitic grade in these eyes was low or zero.
(16) The hope is that the new Baghdad government, headed by Haider al-Abadi, will prove more consensual.
(17) The mothers said, 'We understand it's a criminal offence even if it's consensual', which I said was quite right.
(18) Dr. Ogden has tried to integrate two very different Kleinian formulations about (1) early infant development and (2) adult mental relationships (both called projective identification) with Winnicott's ideas about the ways in which any mother introduces her own version of consensual reality to her infant and influences the qualities of the infant's first, and forever basic, mental relationship (called impingement).
(19) For India's British colonial rulers this could have meant many things, including consensual fellatio between a man and a woman, but its squeamish machismo clearly had in mind penetrative sex between two adult males, a spectre that continues to terrify the morally correct across the world .
(20) The vast majority of young women in Latin America report never having been married or in union, although more reported living in consensual union than in legal marriages.
Sensual
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.
(a.) Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly.
(a.) Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous.
(a.) Pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Strict fundamentalists oppose music in any form as a sensual distraction - the Taliban, of course, banned music in Afghanistan.
(2) Back then, the entire city felt drenched in sensuality, and so did my home.
(3) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
(4) Even more graphically than Picasso’s Women of Algiers with their multiple breasts and bums, Nu couché is a sensual masterpiece – and far more conventionally so than anything Picasso painted.
(5) Let’s leave that discussion to another day, but imagine a combination of the two – sort of Transformers meets Ex Machina – in which a race of giant sexy robots battles it out with another race of really mean giant sexy robots while paltry human beings look on in awe, and teenage boys (and girls) experience incredibly conflicting and disturbing sensual awakenings in the front row of the Beckenham Odeon.
(6) Such myths were transformed by Renaissance artists such as Titian into alluring sensual painting.
(7) The only quality she seems to have, in his eyes, is a sensual body.
(8) "What I find most inspiring is how she expresses her sensuality," says Mara Carlyle, who made one of last year's most critically lauded albums, Floreat.
(9) And I began to wonder what a language might sound like that was not cool but hot, that was noisy and crowded and vulgar and sensual in a way that the Indian reality is.
(10) Pain is both sensual perception and sense of touch, and it leads to emotional change of health, which has an effect back to a pain perception.
(11) Like the American revolution and the French revolution, like the three major dictatorships of the 20th century – I say "major" because there have been more, Cambodia and Romania among them – and like the New England Puritan regime before it, Gilead has utopian idealism flowing through its veins, coupled with a high-minded principle, its ever-present shadow, sublegal opportunism, and the propensity of the powerful to indulge in behind-the-scenes sensual delights forbidden to everyone else.
(12) The secondary effects of Ecstasy were the stimulant effects of energy and activation, and the psychedelic effects of insight and perceptual and sensual enhancement.
(13) And Push had been very much part of that, it's such a sensual and sensitive way of dancing with another person.
(14) Gary organises a pre-surgery workshop about the mental transition needed from lingering trauma to embracing sensuality, and sends them all home with a vibrator.
(15) She was someone sensual, her skin being finally woken and properly explored.
(16) A sensual conspiracy fuels a virulent nostalgia, and the Cuban propensity for exaggeration ensures that it never dies.
(17) As she says, it “pushes the boundaries of what a carpet can be; turning it from this solidly domestic material into this sensual, cobra-like being.” The impetus to create a carpet – something Sterling has never done before – came from her stay in 2012 at the apartments in east London’s Raven Row .
(18) The Sensual World was originally intended as a direct lift of Molly Bloom’s monologue from James Joyce’s Ulysses , but Bush was forced to write her own lyrics when she was denied permission to quote the source material.
(19) It’s easy enough to hear the sensuality, of course, but to spot the undercurrent that makes her pierce you as much as soothe and seduce you, that’s getting more to the heart of her.
(20) Locals come here to kick off their weekend with a few cocktails, such as the Luchador Belt and the Chocolate Sensual.