Justin Cartwright

As I read 'The Infinities', with its magical, playful richness, its sensuous delight in the power of language to convey the strangeness and beauty of being human, I wondered if J. M. Coetzee, with his bleak, pared-down, elemental view of the world, had ever read a Banville and, if he had, whether he had envied him his astonishing powers.

British Novelist

Saint Augustine

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Saint

Simon Schama

The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do deep research to make the thought and utterances of lost time credible.

British Historian

Kate Chopin

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

American Author

Richard Wagner

I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.

German Composer

Robert Louis Stevenson

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Scottish Writer

Pam Dawber

I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.

American Actress

Philip Pullman

The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing.

British Writer

Eddie Rickenbacker

The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.

American Aviator

Riya Sen

Indian Actress

Emphasizes a deep physical pleasure or appreciation that involves the senses, often tactile.

Physical Experience

Implies a focus on bodily or sensory experience rather than mental or intellectual perceptions.

Not Intellectual

Can be used to describe something that provokes a strong emotional reaction through the senses.

Emotional Response

Refers to elements in art or design that give aesthetic pleasure through sight or touch.

Artistic Appeal

Indicates the gentle or subtle impact on the senses, especially when relating to art or beauty.

Subtle Sensation

Not just related to sight—can include any pleasing sensory experience, like texture or sound.

Beyond Visual

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On the Road With Andrew...

 capturing the blue light of dawn, tent-like white light of day, the gold light of the afternoon, and of course, at night, the sensuous,

Sensuous