Sentence examples for sensual agony from inspiring English sources
The novel describes in visceral detail the experience of trench warfare, including the carnage of the battle of the Somme, and juxtaposes the physical agonies of battle with the sensual delight of a passionate love affair that took place in the same part of France a few years before.
Her agony, fierce resistance, and infrequent joy in sense memories and sensual movement are all believable, yet it is only at the end of the evening-length work that she begins to discover a mode of expression adequate to her subject.
A wealthy, religious spinster (Harriet Andersson) is dying of cancer in a formal nineteenth-century manor house, attended, in her final agonies, by her two worldly sisters — a tense, enraged, masochistic diplomat (Ingrid Thulin) and a ripely sensual adulteress (Liv Ullmann) — as well as by a peasant maid (Kari Sylwan) who bares her flesh to comfort the dying woman, whom she loves.
Neither looked particularly sensual.
