(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."
Sentient
Definition:
(a.) Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.
(n.) One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both record, with power and sentient humanity, the vortex of war in our world today, and the millions these wars scatter and shatter across it, not least to Europe’s shores.
(2) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(3) "The passions are perfectly unknown to her ... the unseen seat of life and the sentient target of death - this Miss Austen ignores."
(4) (Sentient describes the state where partial or total awareness is elicited by stimulation).
(5) Ever since this exhibitionist drivel began, otherwise sentient people have been sobbing into their popcorn about thwarted love and the passing of time.
(6) Long before they tucked into the starters there was something whiffy about the relationship between No 10 and News International: why did the prime minister stand by his PR man long after most sentient people had concluded that his denials of involvement in phone-hacking were risible?
(7) Click here for the Paddington trailer There was a swift online reaction to the still image from the film pictured above, in which Paddington looks less like the harmlessly bumbling bear of Michael Bond's books and more a malevolent creature, disturbingly sentient enough to dress itself in a duffel coat.
(8) Unlike Teletubbies, which featured sentient vacuum cleaners and characters with TV screens on their abdomens, this show doesn't rub our faces in the fact that we are slackly farming our children out to the electric babysitter; instead, it has a faintly folky, storybook quality.
(9) Tagline "Sometimes life's second chances come in small packages" Cool Gel Attacks Photograph: James Mccauley Based on an incident in 2006 where packs of cooling gel were found in rural Thailand and mistaken by some for aliens, Cool Gel Attacks offers a "knee-slapping look" at what might have happened had the gel packs indeed been sentient.
(10) He reinvigorated a minor DC title, Swamp Thing – a sort of sentient bog monster – with his now-familiar penchant for supernatural mysticism, psychedelic prose and adult characterisation.
(11) Central heating alone induced sweating responses and the central temperature thresholds of sweating were inversely related to the ambient (sentient skin) temperatures.
(12) He criticised "materialistic technology" in his eight-minute speech and said greed had "unbalanced the ecosystems, contaminated the environments, caused natural disasters, spread epidemics, induced wars and hence endangered all sentient beings now and in future", according to an official translation of his speech.
(13) What I have chosen as my concern, in the foregoing, is not a rough survey of conceptions of human nature--whether man is good, bad, or indifferent; a rational creature or essentially a sentient one; whether man's nature has ever been the same' or whether 'man makes himself', creatively.
(14) Where mo-cap can add value is for films that attempt to respond to humanity's essential 21st-century passions: our essential loneliness as a sentient species, not mutually exclusive with the terror that we might one day be supplanted at the top of the intelligence tree.
(15) Johnny Depp plays Dr Will Caster, an artificial intelligence researcher who is willing to sacrifice himself to create a sentient machine.
(16) As sentient beings we all know this, but it’s my public duty to remind you of the fact.
(17) It was beyond suppression and therefore beyond any sentient move to wish it away.
(18) The Matrix dissolved around me, still a virgin, and barely sentient.
(19) Let's just settle down quietly – pushing meddling politicos out of the action – and decide, as sentient stakeholders, what we want to do next.
(20) From sentient marine mammals to apparently downed airliners and the drastic effects of climate change, the world's oceans, and what we do to them, may be the last great battleground.