(1) A man of 56 told me: "Plain fact is, you're the wrong side of 40 and Rubenesque, which means you've got very little prestige."
Sensuous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.
(a.) Highly susceptible to influence through the senses.
Example Sentences:
(1) This pair likes to eat well; it is in French restaurants that they find sensuous enjoyment together, perhaps the one place now where there is real collaboration and exchange between them.
(2) The movement was at once highly cerebral and perfectly sensuous, saturated with emotional expression and absolutely controlled.
(3) Bergé got Yves out of hospital and back to work, helping to set up the label whose three sensuously entwined initials would revolutionise Parisian fashion in the 60s, scandalise the world in the 70s and stamp themselves imperiously across the 80s.
(4) One critic described Clark's photographic technique as 'drawing you into the moral void of gorgeously sensuous squalor'.
(5) Most brilliant of all, however, were two series from the 1990s (now in Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art in New York), which evoked the four seasons, and the stages of human life, with sensuous colours and characteristically enigmatic writing.
(6) With that the remained rests of the still from world categories imaginaried connection get powered (transcendence, sensuousness, settlement by Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Schütz for example) to conceive the body as not inferable absolute origin being.
(7) The emotionally expressive power of art--not to be confused with the artist's own emotions--has to do with the way sensuous esthetic forms highlight the rhythmic changes of tension and release inherent in ordinary perceptual experience.
(8) Her second novel, a great doorstopper of a murder mystery set against the New Zealand gold rush of the 1860s,, looks at first sight very different; but it carries forward both her epic ambition and commitment to the sensuous pleasures of reading.
(9) Sensuous, anthemic and as spellbinding as ever, Running Up That Hill represented Bush at the peak of her powers.
(10) At Dulwich there's an assiduous School-of-Raphael-style battle drawing from 1625 and more attractively, a 1628 canvas, The Arcadian Shepherds , echoing Titian at his most sensuous and poetic.
(11) "It seemed to me that Sylvia, being very forthright and loving to play roles, pretended to being more sensuously involved than she was willing to be," says Gordon.
(12) Her evocative portraits of Lili and other sensuous women were considered, by some, too outrageous for Denmark, but she rose to fame in Paris.
(13) … the audience called us out at least seven times amidst unanimous applause … my future is secured.” Caruso, born in 1873 to a poor family, became the most famous and highest-paid singer of his generation, still revered for the sensuous, lyrical quality of his voice.
(14) In those cases in which withdrawal into mutism and only sensuous play has occured by the age of 5 years response to treatment has been minimal.
(15) Challenges to belief as well as to disbelief, faith as well as lack of faith, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vampyr, Day of Wrath, and Ordet all take place in a highly sensuous material world where the mysteries of human personality supersede and arguably overwhelm most questions about the supernatural.
(16) Similarly, my daughter is an incredibly sensuous little girl, and will sometimes strike poses that are rather erotic, as most little girls do.
(17) River Man is easily the album’s finest track: an utterly hypnotic guitar coda played with a kind of deceptively ambling sensuousness, almost throwaway lyrics edged with an oblique mysticism that acts in exactly the way that Kirby states, and then Kirby’s stunning string arrangement that suddenly swells up and levitates spiralling upwards and out, it is Drake at his most supremely spine-tingling effective.
(18) The second topic addressed is liposuction of the sensuous triangle which is at the junction of the lateral buttocks, lateral thigh, and posterior thigh.
(19) One mode is termed the rational-active, and the other sensuous-receptive.
(20) Two new approaches in suction lipectomy of the buttocks region are described: liposuction of the "banana" and liposuction of the "sensuous triangle."