Word: sensualism
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Joey Becker is very secretive. Considering some of the traumas she has endured, this is quite understandable. She is perhaps the most demure sensual beast ever to have graced the modern novel with her penchant for provocation. As the heroine of Sue Miller's newest novel, While I Was Gone, Jo faces a grave dilemma: how to reconcile her domesticated life as a 52-year-old mother, wife and veterinarian with her sensual fantasies and hippie past. She is fascinated by naked flesh, particularly that of her daughters, her husband and her bar-waitress friends. Unlike her loving husband Daniel...
Kilbourne, a frequent speaker at college campuses and a visiting scholar at Wellesley College, said the $36 billion food industry uses such connections to sell more food. She said that the industry's tendency to photograph food items in a close-up, sensual manner gives the products a mystique once afforded only to illicit affairs...
...Kilbourne, a frequent speaker at college campuses and a visiting scholar at Wellesley College, said the $36 billion food industry uses such connections to sell more food. She said that the industry's tendency to photograph food items in a close-up, sensual manner gives the products a mystique once afforded only to illicit affairs...
...seems to me that one writes at a much moremeasured pace," he says. "You want to form yourthoughts more carefully before putting them on thepage. You're engaged in a more sensual mechanicalprocess...
Highly cerebral and sensual at the same time, the recently divorced Bech is truly close to no one, but knowledgeable about everyone. From this privileged position, he delivers dispassionate, wry judgment on all and sundry; perhaps a sad situation, but a much more entertaining one for us, the readers. Nor does he inspire much pity in us, so crusty and self-sufficient does he seem. The novel is written from Bech's own point of view, and opens on the grizzled, still prodigiously randy gentleman touring the Czech Republic with lissome, admiring dissidents hanging from his gnarled elbows...