The Catholic areas had very visual and sensual aesthetics.
The same can be said of other imperiled objects with similar visual and sensual possibilities.
In the most luxurious examples, painstakingly illustrated folios transformed reading and prayer into intensely visual and sensual experiences.
Across the river, one of Munich's hidden jewels, Müller's Public Bath (Müllersches Volksbad), Rosenheimerstrasse 1, 49-899) 2361-3434, is a visual and sensual treat.
Petzold has the visual and sensual nous to support them, even as the plotting piles up to an abrupt, prosaic conclusion.
Jose Mazzotti, a professor of Latin American literature at Harvard University, described Mr. Padilla as one of the Latin American poets to develop a "conversational" style with strong visual and sensual images that was to mark a break with earlier European traditions.
This is not to say that there aren't superb, insightful passages to be found throughout the book, passages that often draw on southern Asia's visual and sensual collisions.
A more potent, angrier John (and a more complex Mary) would help this production by leaps and bounds, but it remains a fascinating piece of theater, one that adds layers of visual and sensual meaning to Miller's literate verbosity and thus freshens its point of view.
Glamour is brilliance, both visual and conceptual.
It has its ups and downs, both visual and emotional.
