In a way, though, that ride's preoccupation with sensation offers an extreme example of the museum's biggest weakness: it is so focused on the sensations of the ship, on the mechanics of living and the mechanisms of fighting, that almost no larger context is provided.
Yet such sensations offer confirmation that even when a limb has been severed or cut off from the nervous system, the nerves that once serviced it remain alive and well.
The first time he visited the town, he was bewitched by the sensation it offered of stepping out of time.
Outside Washington, Mr. Obama was a multimedia sensation — people offered free tickets to his book readings for $125 on eBay and contributed thousands of dollars each to his political action committee to watch him on stage questioning policy experts.
I call it a "safe haven" because--just like a calm harbor in a terrible storm at sea--this restful sensation can offer your mind a place to relax somewhat, feel some relief, and weather out the storm.
The inhalant's origins date back to the 1900s when they were used medically to treat blood flow issues, and since the dawn of disco they've been widely circulated in the gay scene for the sensation they offer during sex.
The joy of sake is not so much in the analysis of flavors but in the different tactile sensations sake offers from sip to swallow.
However, the perceptual theorist can still claim that whatever the explanation might be in the case of other intransitive bodily sensations, the explanation offered for pain is essentially correct, and such a theorist may thus conclude that she has discharged the burden of proof in claiming that experiencing pain is engaging in genuine exteroception.
With the tsunami of e-books where traditional and self-published writers are beefing up reading choices to astounding levels, the book business has become a competing stew of infinite taste sensations that are offered up increasingly sliced and diced, and composed for an increasing segmented reading public.
By the time I reached Only Skin, I felt perhaps the loveliest - and rarest - sensation music can offer: the sense that it's carrying you along with it, that you have absolutely no idea where it's going to take you next, and that there's nothing you can do but succumb.
