Sentence examples for sensual material from inspiring English sources

"I think leather is an incredibly sensual material," he continued.

"Bronze is a sensual material," Ms. Poilane said.

As this example indicates, the very ecological protest against the ruthless capitalist exploitation of natural resources is already caught in the commodification of experiences: although ecology perceives itself as the protest against the virtualisation of our daily lives and advocates a return to the direct experience of sensual material reality, ecology itself is branded as a new lifestyle.

Sustainable and modern architecture, when done well, provides a kind of balance between the natural and the artificial environment by blurring the lines between indoor and outdoor in sensual material palettes while offering the expansion of smaller and more efficient spaces.

Ms. Roy's work takes the sanitized aesthetic of the medical lab and fleshes it out with sensual materials, a dash of humor and a whiff of risk.

But it also conveys a powerful sense of individuality and place, bringing home the sensual and material reality of Rwanda, a country that functions, for many in the West, as a near-abstraction, a synonym for unimaginable cruelty.

The Prince, through whose consciousness virtually all the movie's action is filtered, runs the risk of seeming (as he sometimes does in the novel by the Sicilian nobleman Giuseppe di Lampedusa, on which the film is based) rather too Olympian in his detachment, too far above the sensual and material things of life.

Mencius acknowledges that moral development is hindered when a person pays more attention to the "small" parts of the self that include desires for sensual and material satisfaction and fails to use the heart-mind to reflect on the great parts that have normative priority.

For me exhibitions are a place for inventing: for encountering objects, images and events, in all their sensual and material complexity and imagining things about them why they were made, and what could they mean.

By the age of 45, he never again needed to be deprived of a single sensual experience or material object.

This chapter draws together the ideas developed in the book, with emphasis both on the technical and on the sensual aspects of material usage.