Word: sensualness
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...most demonic sins, for Dante, are the sins of the spirit. Hence Brunetto Latini, since he embodies a sensual sin, does not merit punishment so severe as that meted out to the spiritually corrupt...
...history of his passion that was interspersed with some of the purest love lyrics in the language. Some time before 1294, still in his 20s, Dante married a Florentine noblewoman named Gemma Donati, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. He also instituted a series of sensual liaisons, and to one of these women he wrote some of the most ferocious love poetry ever penned...
...today, I fear," he starts, and in 28,000 words plunges forth to speculate on God, reincarnation, Proust, Balzac, baseball and the charms of the camp director's wife ("quite perfect legs, ankles, saucy bosoms, very fresh, cute hind quarters"), while insistently querying his parents about "what imaginary-sensual acts gave lively, unmentionable entertainment to your minds...
...highly sensual implications of big-beat dancing have some psychiatrists worried. Says one: "It's sick sex turned into a spectator sport." The voyeur aspects are considerable. Hollywood A-Go-Go, one of the six nationally aired rock 'n' roll TV shows (including ABC's Shindig and NBC's Hullabaloo) that have debuted in the past year, features a line of young nubile blondes whose dancing would bring a blush to the cheeks of a burlesque stripper...
...proficient cast, the drama is a historical curio that contains something of Brecht's sardonic mood but little of his subsequent theatrical-mastery. Seemingly hailing the life force, Baal paradoxically suggests Brecht's fear of it, as if the worship of life could only lead to sensual derangement. If ever a playwright had a split personality, it was Bertolt Brecht. In later plays, he seemed to revel in decadence and cynicism while mourning purity. His intellect was at war with his heart. His tongue sneered while his lips prayed. Embracing the tyrannical collectivity god of Communism, he remained...