Word: sensuously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that an American woman may look at a King with more understanding than many a Briton. Married to former Under Secretary of State for Air Aidan Crawley, Author Cowles has been a newspaper correspondent in Europe since the Spanish civil war. The excellence of her biography lies in her sensuous, feminine appreciation of Edward...
...first novel a story firmly pegged to the news, and applied her newspaper training to the business of telling it straight and clear. Her brief, softspoken, painful tale is absolutely bare of dramatic flourishes, boasts only a few forlorn buds of poetic feeling. Author Daniels is not sufficiently sensuous a writer to breathe physical presence into her characters; yet they think their narrow-bound thoughts, talk their touching dreams and suffer their private agonies most convincingly. As a result, the novel reads rather like a play -it is all there except the actors and the lights...
Broadly and swiftly done, with more dramatic flair than sensuous feeling, his canvases strike right through the retina to the mind. Yet whether his pictures are sufficiently rich in color, firm in drawing and subtle in composition to live beyond the grave is another question. Masterpieces generally are constructed either with the utmost care and polish or else with what Transcendentalist Emerson himself called "nerve and dagger." Wight is too self-conscious to be really bold, too rushed to polish much...
...such young idolaters as Joe ("King") Oliver and Sidney Bechet were soon to hammer out the rudiments of instrumental jazz. Washington jazz tended to strings-pianos, banjos, violins-but it had the same ancestry: the sophisticated rhythms of African drums, which later took on a more succinct and sensuous character as they drifted through the Caribbean islands, gradually infiltrated the U.S. via New Orleans and the East Coast. The East Coast variety, with its own flavors added, eventually became the ragtime of Duke's childhood...
...best in all Italy. Many another superlative can be applied to Trastevere; its poverty is the deepest, its streets and alleyways the most crowded, its feasting the lustiest in all of Rome. It was in Trastevere that Raphael himself found the baker's full-bosomed daughter whose sensuous charms he bequeathed to the world in the painting La Fornarina...