Word: sensuousness
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...there was doubt of Artist Grosz's accomplishment in oil, the wiry strength, textural richness, clean color and solid finish of several still life and nude studies dispelled it. But the gaiety and sensuous life of these paintings made all the more striking a number of gruesome, garish or ruined landscapes and the latest, largest picture on view, A Piece of My World (see cut). This one harked back to the line drawings the artist made at 23, when he was a German pacifist who had been condemned to death but let off with front-line service...
...legend of Don Juan was invented by a Spanish monk in the 16th Century nominally in order to frighten young profligates into piety. In the original the sensuous, rakehell Don kills the father of Doña Ana, one of the girls he has violated. Later he invites the father's statue to sup with him. The statue comes, demands that Juan repent his many sins. Don Juan refuses, is snatched down into Hell...
This Epstein did not do. All but seven of the drawings shown were directly derived from the text, reflected its despair and horror as well as its sensuous music. Examples: Danse Macabre, a female skeleton posturing on a bed, and Flowers of Evil (see cut), which even conservative London critics, shocked again, conceded to be true to the poet...
...Girls On Probation" definitely does not live up to its advertisements, which depict a girl of decidedly sensuous cast smoking a cigarette in the approved seductive manner. It is a routine tale of woe, in which the heroine is framed by endless coincidences...
...theatrical producer who was shot by Fascist troops in Granada last year. His best poem, written in 1935, was the Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejias (a bull-fighter). Readers who have hair that is capable of rising will feel scalped at several points in this harshly sensuous, musically calculated and fiercely whole-hog song of death, even in the literal translation which A. L. Lloyd prints along with the original Spanish...