Word: sensual
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...lacks most of rap's snappy, snazzy street smarts. But it is consummate contemporary rhythm and blues. Jane Fonda, one of Jackson's pals, puts it as neatly and nicely as any music critic: "Michael's got a fresh, original sound. The music is energetic, and it's sensual. You can dance to it, work out to it, make love to it, sing to it. It's hard to sit still...
...outlashes stun us with their uncontrollable violence, revealing his character's inability to accept his guilt about his feelings of love for his dead friend Skipper. Cox's Maggie exploits Brick's passivity and seeming impotence as she desperately tries to reawaken his love for her. Cox portrays a sensual, hyperactive, and manipulative Maggie. At times she stumbles over her lines, not from nervousness but rather from rushing them a bit too much. All the same, we sympathize with her character's submersion in Brick's passionless, greedy family...
...Ozick is careful never to allow the prose-poetry pattern to weaken the fabric of the novel. A device that might have seemed sloppy or contrived in the hands of a less skilled novelist, this language effectively heightens the sensual flavor of Ozick's work...
...script for Emerald Point N.A.S. (CBS), a Jacuzzi-hot soap opera set on a naval base: "PAN FROM the clothes on the floor TO a man's jeans and Levi jacket draped over a chair. From just [off screen], little bleating sounds of passion, at once ladylike and sensual. Now PAN ON OVER TO the bed and FIND Hilary and a young man locked in naked and breathless embrace. As Hilary is swept... from passion to frenzy that approaches violence, biting and clawing at the young man in bed with her, GO TO [a jet plane] firing up with...
Revolutionaries fall into two main types: the romantic and the quasi-religious zealot. Danton, as envisioned by Wajda and Writer Jean-Claude Carrière (Buñuel's sometime collaborator) and brilliantly portrayed by Gérard Depardieu, is the former. Lazy, sensual and, above all, egocentric, he believes that he need do nothing but raise his famed orator's voice in order to bring the people to the counterrevolutionary barricades. Convinced of his own star qualities, he neglects to look back to see if anyone is actually following him or, despite warnings, to take practical steps...