For a time a reader may anticipate that she will turn out to be an Israeli Molly Bloom, because we enter her sensual stream of consciousness, but in the last analysis Dita is driven by ambition more than lust.
At the beginning of "Cold Mountain," Inman is a lazy, sensual boy; his consciousness develops slowly, and Law's eyes, as the movie goes on, grow more inquiring and expressive, as if he could see clearly only at the end.
He described the feelings MDMA induced as "an easily controlled altered state of consciousness with emotional and sensual overtones".
Mr. Dorfman has nice moments vocalizing music that Hal once composed, and Ms. Young's Kate glows with an appealingly apologetic self-consciousness, especially after a sensual kiss with Angie.
Pondering standards in a quiet, confiding alto with a rolling, sensual vibrato, she turns lyrics into intimate overheard streams of consciousness.
Once in a while, the reader is taken unawares by the author's reverting to standard English, especially in the lyrical "stream of consciousness" passages that describe the coming of summer and its sensual and sensory beauties.
Sensual restraint and stilling of the mind assist one in turning inward to understand and experience consciousness.
The novel was also deeply sensual; as literary scholar Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin would write in 1979, "The sensuality arises from Alabama's awareness of the life surge within her, the consciousness of the body, the natural imagery through which not only emotions but simple facts are expressed, the overwhelming presence of the senses, in particular touch and smell, in every description".
Our consciousness, which is deeply shaped by sensory perception and associated memories, is in fact intimately sensual.
