The word 'sensuous' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that evokes a pleasurable physical response or stimulates the senses. For example, "The sensuous aroma of the jasmine tea filled the room, and everyone breathed in its calming scent."
Carter's later prose writing has what Clapp describes as an "unforgettably sensuous" voice, coupled with the "sardonic wit" that was to earn her the title of the "White Witch of English Literature".
His use of the airbrush soon became integral to his art, bringing a slick smoothness to images which oscillated between the grisly and the sensuous, often accommodating both.
The lavish food, wine, clothes, cars and sensuous self-indulgence – the easy grace of the true aristocracy – is deeply envied by the middle-class upstart Ryder: the outsider, looking in – who yearns to emulate such consummate style.
Whether he's writing about his adult alienation at a toddler's birthday party or the memory of trying to get hold of alcohol as a teenager on New Year's Eve, Knausgaard is prepared to go into extraordinary sensuous detail that can last 50 pages or more.
Often they would paint the same subject, he delicate with the brush, she sensuous.
Flitting through Bauby's sensuous visions like a signature is the tiny image of a butterfly, the ancient symbol of the soul escaping its earthly cocoon through the power of consciousness.
Yet Benoît Mandelbrot's celebrity beyond the academy is largely due to art in its modern, sensuous, sense.
The brief liaison, whose sensuous recounting is one of the glories of this book, ends when Kemal becomes engaged to Sibel, the Paris-educated daughter of a diplomat.
We'll think of something Petersburg magic and Rio gangs Girl crazy ReprintsScientific experimentation in these times was a risky business, full of sudden bangs, sour smells and unexpected textures, and the author is marvellously good at capturing this sensuous world, far removed from white coat sterility.
Even those not overly fond of Matisse the painter cannot help but be bowled over by these joyous, sensuous final works.Seaweeds wave and swallows soar; the limbs of dancers and acrobats loop in arabesques.
YOU can safely assume that most Brazilians had more sensuous things on their mind on the last day of carnaval than their country's debt.
