Word: sensuously
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...cadence is a part of the mood; the power to evoke lyrically (with occasional lapses into tremolo) a moonlight night at Princeton, a summer dawn, reaches of land and water; a vest-pocket Proust's preoccupation with houses, furniture, streets. He had a masculine power to recreate the sensuous opulence of young women; a curiously feminine habit of seeing at a glance not only the color of people's hair and the shape of their chins, but of seeing at the same glance what color their hair would be, how many chins they would have ten years hence...
When she was 17, Clorinda had just become one of the three wives of bearded, Scotch-burred Abijah N. Maclntyre. She was pretty, sensuous, rebellious...
...find him. The visitor is a dead ringer for the archfoe of all that M. Bernanos holds valuable: Anatole France. By the bloodstains of self-mortification on the priest's bedroom wall, by the silent stone odors of his church, Anatole himself is beguiled to an impotent, sensuous prospect of personal saintliness. It is at that moment that he confronts, to his dismay, the ravaged face of the man who has tried...
...salute like Caesar, scowl like Napoleon, wear uniforms like the Kaiser. Of all his Cabinet portfolios, his favorites were those of War, Navy, Air Force. He raised a whole generation of young Italians-among them his own sons -to live dangerously, to consider pacifism a bourgeois vice, to take sensuous, esthetic pleasure from the pattern of exploding bombs and the music of gunfire. He told them time & again that supine neutrality is a cowardice fit only for decadent democracies...
...play-by-play description of the dim mental processes of the brothers-perhaps the most authentic imbeciles in U. S. letters-and of their borderline methods of staying alive. Author Litsey slops over a few times. But few books have matched his for its communication of utter loneliness, its sensuous clarity, its grave and unforced pity, the unpremeditated purity of its telling...