Word: sensuousness
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Somewhere between Gebel-Williams' caged and sensuous art and the author's own ritual purifications in the woods lies the real wild-that state of constant tension between freedom and control. It is the bewilderness, an inexhaustible human resource that Hoagland exploits while scarcely leaving a track on the forest floor. · R.Z. Sheppard
...going home, trudging. Her legs move, putty-like; but like putty poisoned with lead. The legs lift, one after the other; arch, and plummet down. The motion is achingly slow, or so it seems to her. To the world's eyes, it is graceful. To the world, incredibly sensuous. She is going home...
Exit the King, one of Ionesco's later and more elaborate plays, is a ritualized orchestration of one man's death. Beranger, the infirm king of a wasted nation, lapses into childhood memories, sensuous daydreams, and anguished tirades while trying to understand his impending doom. One of his wives, the hateful Marguerite, and the attending physician, urge him to "abdicate" his life. His second wife Marie stands opposed--consoling him with love and hope, beckoning him to resist death...
During her superbly sensuous "My Love's Gonna Take You Higher," Bette characteristically stripped the fushia, sequined mermain gown she had put on at intermission. She continued to perform--through her final rendition of "Friends," her incomparable "Chapel of Love" and a standing ovation--in her black lace strapless long-line bra and accompanying black satin skin-tight knee-length bloomers...
...missed the spate of Concerned Books: Soul On Ice, Deschooling Society, The Whole Earth Catalog-when Rip left, earth was only dirt-plus almost every float in Norman Mailer's Mr. America Pageant. Lose a few, win a few. He has also missed Love Story, Myra Breckenridge, The Sensuous Woman. He browses through the current paperbacks; words rise up and greet him like so much Urdu: ecology, software, encounter groups, moon rocks, body language, future shock, acupuncture, transcendental meditation, deep zone therapy. His trembling hands try the poetry shelf, but the words of Auden seem...