Word: sensuousness
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...mayor's power of censorship. Leaving out of consideration the wisdom of this particular prohibition, there can be no doubt that there have appeared, unchallenged, numerous dramatic productions calculated to feed on human weaknesses. Such plays as the "Follies" which excite the baser passions of mankind by their sensuous dances and flippant jests in regard to breaches of the Seventh Commandment and to drunkenness have been allowed to vulgarize and debase their audiences...
...lover's homage to his beloved as the two sit together in a fragrant garden by the sea. The external situation is finely conceived--the reader feels the moonlight, the flowers, the booming of the sea, the isolation. Part of Milton's canon, that poetry should be simple, sensuous and passionate, the poem is faithful to; it has burning passion and sensuous description; but it has not simplicity. Simplicity involves clearness, without which a poem fails to produce its intended effect. Here I am not sure that I understand the emotional situation: what is the "pain" for which...
...former class, and it is wonderful that a mind so acutely intellectual as his should choose for its special province the Fine Arts--the domain, that is, where Beauty and not Knowledge is sovereign. But although his forte is intellectual, Mr. Berenson succeeds in interpreting much of the sensuous charm of painting...
...verse is not distinguished. Mr. Rogers's "Ride of the Hill Folk" is well told, but shows the weakness of much verse in the saga form in that it lacks story. Mr. Wheelock's "Serenade" does not show emotion; Mr. Dickerman's translation "Light" shows sensuous color, better at the beginning than the end; the fault is doubtless in the original. Mr. Reed's "Guinevere" reflects Tennyson...
...larger part of the number is composed of fiction. Mr. Simonson's "Unfinished Madonna" is a delicately told story, rich in sensuous suggestion; and has a symmetry of form and a subdued harmony of tone that give it artistic quality. The characters are on the whole so well imagined that one regrets the more keenly the lapse of imagination that compels him to conclude the story by a suicide. The same regret occurs to one in reading Mr. Carb's terrible but effective character study "Leri," though in this case the suicide is not only more clearly inevitable but better...