Word: sensuality
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Perhaps Harrison's most valuable gift is her conviction that spending time in the world is a supremely exciting experience. All of these essays are dense with a kaleidescopic abundance of sensual detail that records and conveys that excitement...
Passages like these, which raise the sensual to a spiritual level, make The Astonishing World a consistently exhilarating book. Harrison makes a religion out of the notion that the world is here to be noticed, and in most of these essays she renders that notion utterly convincing...
This is where Hughes' obvious talents as an art historian consistently convince and impress us. The sheer force of the narrative that Hughes crafts from the most basis elements of the city--its buildings--arrives in the sensual pleasure of the writing. He takes on the architecture of the Eixample (the enlargement of the city which occurred in the ninteenth century--like Domenech and Gaudi--are never separated from the cultural context of Catalan modernisme and the anarchists' movements...
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Nebraska author Willa Cather made plowing seem poetic, even sensual. "There are few scenes more gratifying than a spring plowing in that country," she wrote, "where the furrows of a single field often lie a mile in length, and the brown earth, with such a strong, clean smell, and such a power of growth and fertility in it, yields itself eagerly to the plow, rolls away from the shear, not even dimming the brightness of the metal, with a soft, deep sigh of happiness...