Word: sensualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nevertheless lively and diverting. Belmondo, who in Breathless emerged in one catlike bound as the French Bogart, here plays the polar opposite of that part and plays it with wit and sensitivity. And Loren, though hardly the woman Moravia had in mind, makes a superlative tigress. Cunning, selfish, sensual, ferocious and above all female, she leaps on her passions and tears them to spectacular tatters...
Davis was a brilliant descriptive reporter with a breezy, intimate flow of language and a sensual precision of phrase. Bullets whirred past him like "rustling silk," shrapnel made "the jarring sound of telephone wires when someone strikes the pole." Politically he was naive and jingoistic. Personally he was humane and brave. Some regarded him as an unconscionable prig-"a robust flower of American muscular Christianity . . . the artistic boy scout," William Rothenstein called...
...There is a current and quite pre-posterous impression that Nathan's hold on the intellectual booberle is a sensual one. He is supposed to titillate their nerve centers, causing them to jump. More palpaple tosh than this has not been formed a part of the public superstition since the Sermon on the Mount...I confidently predict that in a hundred years he will be remembered solely for his cravats...
Capitol Records has just released a pop song that may well cause 45 revolutions per minute. Called Big John, it is a teenagers' tribute to the new President of the U.S., filled with sensual sighs and a syncopated rhythm. Sample stanzas...
...common. Chemist Tizard, who at times "looked like a highly intelligent and sensitive frog," was the outgoing, very English son of a regular navy officer. The "very odd and very gifted" Physicist Lindemann was "repressed, suspicious, malevolent." A fanatic Englishman-by-adoption, he was a fierce ascetic who shunned sensual pleasures. Snow recalls him as "an extreme and cranky vegetarian who lived largely on the whites of eggs,† Port Salut cheese and olive...