The word "sensuality" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe the physical or emotional qualities of someone or something that produces a strong, enjoyable sensory reaction. For example: "The sensuality of the music made me feel euphoric."
It bewilders me that a translator of a Chekhov play should concern themselves with accurately replicating in English the Russian of the early last century even if this comes at the expense of the vitality, sensuality, pathos, rage and compassion of the spirit in which those plays were first made.
She stalks the stage, cheekbones gleaming, singing with fire and moving with a profound sensuality.
I look for a level of sensuality that has to do with the sweat and the reality of flesh".
While technically Emma Hill, Brown's second wife and favourite model, was a working-class "stunner" chased from his studio into his bed, she departs from the bruised sensuality of Lizzie Siddal or Jane Morris in important ways.
What makes it beautiful is a gentle sensuality quite rare for her, a dipping of the head, a skimming of the feet that to an English viewer is reminiscent of Frederick Ashton.
These sculptures brilliantly make cold materials seem soft and warm, and magnificently open up vistas of soft sensuality.
Throughout "Sensation and Sensuality" we see prints of his works by dozens of artists next to paintings based on these prints: a fascinating pictorial version of Chinese whispers.
And he appears literally to believe (a video shows him saying all this to students in 2008) that Satan is roaming the United States, "using those great vices of pride, vanity and sensuality" to undermine its institutions.
"Sensuality," writes Maryan W. Ainsworth in a catalogue essay, "runs through Gossart's paintings, drawings, and prints as a leitmotif".
In a picture nearby an elderly couple fly up into the air together, her arms clutch his legs, his outstretched hands clack castanets, associated with music, sensuality and sex.
This firebrand in tight jeans brings out both Nazneen's dormant sensuality and some of the most overwrought writing in the book: "Though they began with a gentle embrace, tenderness could not satisfy her, nor could she stand it, and into her recklessness she drew him like a moth to a flame".Such purple passages aside, Nazneen emerges as a credible, quietly dignified character.
