Word: sensualistic
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...between schizoid contradictions. He fled Dublin but never wrote about anything else. He renounced Catholicism, then cast himself as a higher priest who would transform the bread of common life into art. As these newly released letters show, the aloof classicist also struggled with the dark sensualist. "It is strange," Joyce wrote Nora in 1904, "from what muddy pools the angels call forth a spirit of beauty." Ulysses and Finnegans Wake were to prove him prophetic...
...Saud died and was succeeded by his eldest son, Saud; Faisal was named Crown Prince. An amiable sensualist with little talent for government, King Saud spent so profligately that by 1964 his country was deep in debt. A convocation of elder princes of the family finally packed Saud off into exile and named Faisal King. It was perhaps the most momentous decision that the family ever made...
...19th century painter, not even the great sensualist Delacroix, has affected our unconscious view of women as powerfully as Renoir. This is partly due to the popularity of his work and partly to the unwavering, passionate chauvinism of his feelings about his favorite subject, the nude. Compared with Renoir, even Picasso looks like a feminist. "Look," Renoir explained succinctly to his friend, the dealer Ambroise Vollard, "a painter who has the feeling for breasts and buttocks is a saved...
...both a Cartesian and a sensualist, Matisse wasted nothing. Feeling, for him, included a great deal that flat paint could not convey-notably the awareness of thick, monumental volume, of the thrust and jut of shapes by which human frames state their energy. The proper vehicle for this was sculpture, where volume is real and not-as in painting-illusion. The result, despite the small scale that Matisse preferred in works like Reclining Nude III, was the most Michelangelesque collection of sculpture that any 20th century artist has produced...
...arguing. He is, of course, right. But Farber doesn't worry about what less-hardened souls want to change: the cheapjack genre orientation of commercial film in general. Farber is a sensualist, and it enters his criticism in his acceptance of the good laid out for him along with the bad that dominates. It also means that, for Farber, the presence of a "physical" screen actor can compensate for the psychology the narrative develops, and the thoughts espoused. By talking with him, I learned things about the film art that you can only learn from a quirky, home-grown intelligence...