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Example sentences for "sensuality"

Lexicographically close words:
sensual; sensualism; sensualist; sensualistic; sensualists; sensuall; sensually; sensum; sensuous; sensuously
  1. Sensuality is always indicated when the foot is put forward and the shin bone lightly stretched out, when all the toes are drawn in toward the sole just as the cat does when she feels good.

  2. Thus, dread or fear is accompanied by disorderly impertinence, sensuality by cruelty.

  3. A hat worn on the back of the head signifies improvidence, easiness, conceit, sensuality and extravagance; the farther back the more dangerous is the position of the wearer.

  4. Degas would frighten them more than the sensuality which they condemn in Sir Frederick Leighton.

  5. Carlyle, Mr Robert Browning, and George Meredith are the three essentially northern writers; in them there is nothing of Latin sensuality and subtlety.

  6. She had gone away to be married, and after ten years of misfortune she had returned to her old mistress, this demure, discreet and sly New Englander, who concealed a fierce sensuality under a homely appearance.

  7. During all this time the same man and woman would dance together, half-stupefied with sensuality and drink.

  8. Does it belong to the noble region of the soul, where dwell philosophy and virtue, or does it cohabit with sensuality and with crude passion in the lower regions?

  9. A woman of notoriously bad character had somehow come in contact with Jesus Christ, and had by Him been aroused from her sensuality and degradation, and calmed by the assurance of forgiveness.

  10. Like the beasts that perish,' says one of the psalms, the men become who, by the acids and the files of worldliness and sensuality and passion, have so rubbed away the likeness of God that it is scarcely perceptible in them.

  11. Sensuality is the ferment of feminine nature: without this decisive gift, there might be angels, there would be no women.

  12. Then, the intensity of the emotional excitement doubled: their beings floated in a warm and caressing eddy, under the delicious downpour of a water-fall warmed by a mysterious sun, and the corporeal flowers of sensuality burned to open.

  13. Yet the spirit can for the time pervade and control every member and function of the body, and transmute what in form is the grossest sensuality into purity and devotion.

  14. In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.

  15. All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one.

  16. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

  17. The Flemish painter strives to add richness to the scene by Bacchanalian riot and the sensuality of imperial Rome.

  18. To Titian's association with Aretino some critics have ascribed the stronger vein of sensuality which is discernible in some of his later works.

  19. Although sensuality was very general, it was less obtrusive, and unnatural and eccentric forms had become rare.

  20. Fallacy of judging the sensuality of a nation by the statistics of its illegitimate births, 144.

  21. In an age of extravagant sensuality a noble lady, named Mallonia, plunged her dagger in her heart rather than yield to the embraces of Tiberius.

  22. This, too, was a long-drawn-out affair and ended in perfectly convulsive ecstasies and cries of the wildest sensuality that our most salacious passions could prompt.

  23. She turned up her lovely face to me, and tears of sensuality and voluptuousness filled her eyes.

  24. When Mrs. Evelyn arrived she occupied the spare room, where charming Mrs. Benson had so deliciously initiated me in all the pleasures of sensuality and passion.

  25. Sensuality often forces the growth of love too much, so that its root remains weak, and is easily torn up.

  26. The degree and nature of a man's sensuality extends to the highest altitudes of his spirit.

  27. There is no taint of sensuality in the purely spiritual," said the Cardinal reprovingly.

  28. The sensuality of men,’ Moll states, ‘is in my opinion very much greater than that of women.

  29. Should anyone bring against me an accusation of sensuality he would be wrong, for all the fierceness of my senses never caused me to neglect any of my duties.

  30. Helène’s hirsute adornment is in keeping with psychological precept--that hairiness and sensuality go hand in hand.

  31. Peculiar tendencies to avarice or sensuality inherited from one's immediate ancestry are merely wrinkles in native depravity which add nothing to its amount or its guilt.

  32. We do not excuse arrogance or sensuality upon the ground that they are family traits.

  33. The result of subjectivism is in theology antinomianism; in literature romanticism; in practical life sensuality or sensualism, as in Rousseau, Renan and Zola.

  34. Sensuality is selfishness in the form of inordinate appetite.

  35. Selfishness may embody itself in fleshly lust or inordinate desire for the creature, but this last cannot bring forth spiritual sins which have no element of sensuality in them.

  36. And he raged against himself, as a man bites on a sore tooth, in a heady sensuality of scorn.

  37. All sensuality might hold sway, if it was only purchased from the church.

  38. The distinction of this own thinking from free thinking is similar to that of own sensuality, which I satisfy at pleasure, from free, unruly sensuality to which I succumb.

  39. But is sensuality then the whole of my ownness?

  40. In their poetry that is left to us we find none of the degenerated, effeminate sensuality of the Romance and South German courtoisie.

  41. But in a German sensuality is invariably coarse, pronounced, and revolting.

  42. It rose unconsciously from the stage of crude sensuality to a free humanity.

  43. Sensuality did not preside at our little orgies, but joy, which was preferable, reigned in them all, and we enjoyed ourselves so well together that we knew not how to separate.

  44. Sensuality was the ground of the Israelites' apostasy from the severe and strict religion of Jehovah to the idolatry of their neighbours, which was soft, sensual, and licentious.

  45. Defiance curls on Byron's nostril, and sensuality steps his full large lips.

  46. To the personal insults and imputations of sensuality and so forth, which Henry VIII.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sensuality" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.