Word: sensuousness
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...then stole quickly down the garden path to a door in the old wall. The man opened it, the woman stopped through. He followed her, pulling the door behind him without turning. Over the garden wall, borne back on the fragrant darkness of the night wind, drifted the sensuous laughter of the lovers...
Scene, as well as subject, of course, is the U. S. Time-scheme will run from 1791 to 1933; the first two volumes cover 1884-1925, the last will go back to an earlier beginning. Readers of Look Homeward, Angel will remember its wildly sensuous account of the Gant family. In Of Time and the River Author Wolfe picks up his story, continues his method: he flays real life until the skin is off it and the blood comes. The skin-narrative can be shortly told. Eugene Gant, youngest of his family, at 19 leaves his Southern home and goes...
...allusion and implication that these realistic descriptions become more than more enumerations and the subtle skill of Bunin in arranging and presenting the details in an artistically wover pattern gives a latency of meaning that is forceful and compelling. He knows life and love and communicates the sensuous expression of these naturally and convincingly...
Bestirred with such ballyhoo, the aver age playgoer might have been justified in expecting more than the moments of sensuous beauty he got at Within the Gates. Mr. O'Casey's point is that the world has been considerably upset since the War, that Capitalism can offer no security, that in the crisis Mother Church has been discovered to be a humbug...
...search for power drives Sol from his love for Sarah Glassman; his restless soul is never satisfied; his confused ideals and desires lead him on in unceasing search for anything which seems inaccessible to him. Having achieved his goal of wealth and industrial dominance, having compelled the vacuous, sensuous mistress of his former employer to marry him, he suddenly attempts to regain the shattered affections of Sarah, but she resists him, knowing that happiness and peace shall never be his. He does not want the things which he has achieved; he merely wants to achieve them and call them...