Sentence examples for sensual effects from inspiring English sources

Boucher's paintings make you laugh out loud with their extravagant piling-on of sensual effects.

Brown's ambition and achievement in "Audubon's Watch" lie in the sensual effects of his ornate, overripe language.

If the girl in your arms does not have long hair or if her hair is up in a bun, you can still achieve the sensual effects of this move by gently running your fingers along her lower hair line.

Dresses with draped, delicately beaded tops had a more sensual effect.

The latter particularly inspired him to introduce a softer, more sensual effect into French painting, which was then dominated by the austere sculptural style of Jacques-Louis David.

But in LaPlante's vivid prose, her waning mind proves a prism instead of a prison, her memory refracted to rich, sensual effect.

This last style, together with the new approach to the rendering of women's bodies, led quickly to a deliberately sensual effect in statuary and hastened the decline of the unemotional Classical conventions.

He also employed humming and the variability in timbre of singers' voices as techniques in reaching a desired emotional or sensual effect.

A songwriter does not use language as a poet or a novelist does, because he chooses his words to fit into some larger, more sensual effect; an artist who elects to work in a mass medium communicates in a different way from one who doesn't and must be judged according to his own means, purposes, and referents.

It features two harmonious Gabriel vocals, one of which is a shadow vocal which is an octave below the main vocal, intended to give a sensual, haunting effect, although this was hard to capture except when Gabriel had first woken up.

Like Alan Hollinghurst (though somewhat less emphatically), she brings a neo-Jamesian sensibility to bear on sexy, distinctly un-Jamesian subject matter; some of the sharpest lines in Married Love occur when she traces the emotional and psychological effects of sensual activity.