Word: sensuously
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...Amid sensuous swirls...
...variety of climate. There can be few more vivid ways of finding this out than to fly suddenly down from Peking to Canton in the early days of November, exchanging the brisk cold, the austere browns and russets of a northern autumn for the rich greens and the sensuous, languid heat of the tropics. The contrast is greater than moving from New England to Miami at the same time of the year. To leave Peking is to leave an almost Russian-style city ?monumental, dogmatically laid out along enormous avenues, dwarfing the population and evoking a sense of enormous power...
...sense." After the rhetoric and moral posturing of the Victorians, he declared early for a different approach -harder, saner, nearer the bone, Pound said, "austere, direct, free from emotional slither." Then as gadfly, teacher, prosodist and selfless promoter of gifted contemporaries (Eliot, Yeats, Frost), he encouraged the spare, sensuous verse, the ironic double vision that has helped modern poets consider and refine the challenges and confusions of a new and terrifying century...
...Games Sensuous Lovers Play" is a self-conscious attempt to be perverted and "The Empress' New Clothes" provides a look at the fall clothing lines of such imaginately named firms as COOP de la Cambridge and Skirt d'Issue, or Maurice de MassAve and Beachnut Buygum. The Cosmo parody does contain one fine cartoon carrying a cut line running "If you had said something funnier, this cartoon might have made the New Yorker." It might be the slogan for the issue...
...result is that when one approaches a Tsai or makes a noise in its vicinity, the thing responds. The rods appear to move; there is a shimmering, a flashing, an eerie ballet of metal, whose apparent movements range from stillness to jittering, and back to a slow, indescribably sensuous undulation...