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sen·su·al

(sen'shū-ăl),

1. Relating to the body and the senses, as distinguished from the intellect or spirit.

2. Denoting bodily or sensory pleasure, not necessarily sexual.

[L. sensualis, endowed with feeling]

sen·su·al

(sen'shū-ăl)

1. Relating to the body and the senses, as distinguished from the intellect or spirit.

2. Denoting bodily or sensory pleasure, not necessarily sexual.

[L. sensualis, endowed with feeling]

sen·su·al

(sen'shū-ăl)

1. Relating to the body and the senses, as distinguished from the intellect or spirit.

2. Denoting bodily or sensory pleasure, not necessarily sexual.

[L. sensualis, endowed with feeling]

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By the time the reader (and Bubi) reach the word 'pechos', it has become gently and specifically sensualized through associations with food and toys, and by focusing of the reader's attention on certain attributes.

From taboos to transgressions: Textual strategies in woman-authored Spanish erotic fiction

Stella's material desire was sensualized in the image of the longwe man - someone from far off, outside her endogamous ethnic group.

True transgressions: refusal and recolonization in the narrative of a Papuan migrant `bighead.'

Given the momentousness of the seventh coupling, it should not be surprising that in the adjoining scene the word "love" is transvalued by being sensualized. Having achieved sexual womanhood and having explored Mellors's manhood, Connie murmurs, "My love!

Revitalizing the reader: literary technique and the language of sacred experience in D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover.'

Her characters are suctioned to suffering that becomes sensualized, almost a source of pleasure, the ultimate affect.

My Brother

The sea is sensualized through its "voice," but also by its "odor" and "touch" (pp.

'The Awakening': struggles toward l'ecriture feminine

But one cannot examine sexuality in the text without confronting color and the way in which color itself becomes sensualized and sexualized.

Nella Larsen's 'Quicksand': untangling the webs of exoticism

In a world as blindingly fast and forgettable as ours, truth is what can be seen and heard and sensualized. Look into the pit, friends: Admit that Samuel Beckett's one-volume trilogy, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, will never get the "readers" it got as the theater piece Ill Go On, and that the recent seventeen-hour Bloomsday radio read of all of Ulysses was a rainfall to those who have never been able to get through the onslaught of print.