Word: sensual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farm-master, who is her husband, comes an Englishwoman to find that he no longer cares much for her. Slowly the tentacles of intrigue wind about them and their neighbors. She wins back her husband's love, only to learn that one of her neighbors with a sensual wife has been made a cuckold, and that her husband was the maker. Then follows the neighbor's revenge-and her own grief, wondering whose child she is to bear. It all moves with despatch to a well-planned happy ending-but unmistakably planned...
...expression!' . . . 'Leonardo has here expressed womanhood in all her moods!' . . . 'The eternal circle!' . . . 'The masterpiece of the world!' And there was I, unable to see anything except a slimily painted, bloated woman, with a slightly dirty-looking face and a rather nasty sensual expression. . . . I suppose I must be all wrong...
...slimily painted, bloated woman, with a slightly dirty-looking face and a rather nasty sensual expression...
...Negro is a more sensual man than the white man and at the same time he is far more offensive to white women than a white man is. The little acts of familiarity that would pass unnoticed in a white man, becomes with white women the cause of complaint against the Negro. This special Negro division was already charged with 15 cases of rape...
...vigorous protest against sensual details of pornographic pseudo- science loses force unless we ourselves issue succinct statistics and physiological summaries of what we find to be average and believe to be normal; and unless we offer, in place of the prolix mush of much sex literature, the few pages necessary for a standard of instruction covering sex education...