Word: sensually
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Equally shocking to later expurgators. e.g., Thomas Bowdler, were Gibbon's racy reflections on imperial sex life. Of the Empress Theodora he wrote: "After exhausting the arts of sensual pleasure she most ungratefully murmured against the parsimony of Nature," adding in a footnote, "She wished for a fourth altar on which she might pour libations to the god of love." No bowdlerizer, Editor Saunders lets Gibbon have...
Another example, "The Hindu Art of Love," describes in its central section 243 "modes of congress." After listing many of the modes, the author adds, somewhat superfluously, "There are further provinces of congress which demonstrate beyond cavil the immoral absorption of the Hindu with sensual behavior." Other studies included in this group range from Herbert Asbury's works on the underworlds of America's big cities, to "A Collection of Amorous Tales from the East...
...Mantegazza volume offers 16 chapters ranging from "The Decptive Arts of Sensual Pleasure" to "The Sacrifice of Virginity...
William Morrison's "Mary Jane and Jerry" is a sort of atmosphere piece with strong overtones of sensual feelings and impressions. If one steps over the first paragraph, which looks almost as though someone accidentally left it lying in the doorway, the first part of the story is relatively easy to negotiate. But the last half jumps from one impression to another with jack-rabbit agility. Both the mood and the concrete impressions suffer thereby, and the story fades out in a disappointing burst of obscurity...
...Petronius, the Roman satirist, whose dry wit enables him to needle Nero even while flattering him. As Nero, Britain's Actor-Playwright-Director Peter Ustinov is allowed to hog too much screen time, but he does some expert hamming to create the deliciously malign figure of a spoiled, sensual madman. Finlay (Great Expectations) Currie plays St. Peter with eloquent dignity, though his long speeches are marred by the camera's digressions to tasteless religious tableaux, e.g., The Last Supper. In the role of the lascivious Empress Poppaea, Patricia Laffan has nothing much to do but hold a pair...