Word: sensualness
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...laugh. Lenny recalled in his autobiography "it was like the flash that I have heard morphine addicts describe, a warm sensual blanket that comes after a cold sick rejection." He was hooked...
That kind of campaigning is basically a mindless operation -thus an escape from real work. No decisions are required, no memos need be digested, no concentration is necessary. A President can roll effortlessly from place to place, mouthing the same old baloney. There is sometimes a kind of sensual gratification from handshaking, being pressed by the crowds, waving arms and slapping backs...
...witness a struggle between Deeley and Anna for the possession of Kate. Deeley knows the emptiness of his marriage with Kate, and he is driven to the wall by Anna's sinister exploitation of this weakness, in order to win Kate back to the sensual and aesthetic lesbian relationship of twenty years before. Deeley's counter-attacks turn on his attempt to establish his male dominance by fabricating past confrontations in which women are degraded. If he can force the two women to subservient roles, his validity as a husband will be unquestioned...
...against sharing? I can believe it when you say that everyone comes back from an orgy-oops, I mean from a sharing -feeling "breathless, guiltless and ready to return to propriety." Maybe that's because "the main expedience in sharing is quietude, and the intention is sensual rather than sexual." I must say I don't really get this, probably because I am just a housewife, but it sounds uplifting and I guess that's the point...
...Sensual Fire. Plisetskaya's Odette is all shimmering ice; her Carmen is sensual fire. By and large, this version of the Prosper Mérimée story is downright ludicrous. Set to a percussive rehash of Bizet melodies (some from Carmen, some not), the choreography by Cuba's Alberto Alonso must have seemed madly daring when it was first shown in Moscow seven years ago. In fact, it is full of dated psychological posturings. Moreover, despite strong dancing by blond young (24) Aleksander Godunov, one of Plisetskaya's favorite partners, and Sergei Radchenko, the roles...