Word: sensuousness
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...movie reinforces Kaye with four clever, bouncy songs by his wife Sylvia Fine, good-looking girls in fetching costumes, and skilled dancers in sensuous routines (by Choreographer Jack Cole). Together, under Walter Lang's smooth direction, they make On the Riviera the best cinemusical since 1949's On the Town...
Rubens did best when he stood alone before a vast canvas; his finest works are huge mythological scenes filled with cream-and-honey nudes, and Biblical illustrations done on an equally grand and almost equally sensuous scale. But he could also put his passion for people into a small portrait, as his head of curly-maned Francesco Gonzaga, who later became Duke of Mantua, proves. The young nobleman's good-natured mouth looks about to speak, and his eyes are bright with thought, as though Gonzaga were in the midst of a conversation that both he and the artist...
...main action takes place in a suburban home outside of London. Here a group of scheming characters seek to force a military here, Captain Prime, into marrying Blandina Wigmore, a dull girl who is being pushed forward by her mother. Unfortunately, the captain is much more interested in sensuous Mrs. Jasper, a beautiful young widow...
Does he enjoy his work? That, Blume says, is "an awkward question. By enjoyment I usually mean sensuous pleasure, and it certainly isn't that. You don't always enjoy the thing you're possessed by, but you have...
Miss Sitwell's earlier poems were hardly congenial to U.S. tastes. One critic thought of them as an artificial enchanted garden in which a rather nervous and overbred young lady trembled in a "trance of sensuous receptivity." Though brilliantly done, her first poems were excessively, lushly contrived. But as her work developed, another Edith Sitwell emerged, sensitive to human waste and moral agonies. In a play fragment which suggests something of Greek tragedy, she wrote such grandly simple lines as these...