Read full poem →VII. v. 207. _That throughout the whole visible world, an universal_
order _and_ gradation _in the sensual and mental
faculties is observed, which causes a_ subordination
Dictionary Entry
Inducing pleasurable or erotic sensations.
In a Sentence
“That massage was a very sensual experience!”
Origin
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Common Phrases
pleasure sensualpleasures sensual. sensualgratification sensualindulgence sensualexperience sensual
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Poetry examples for “sensual”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →What has the artist caught? The sensual chin
That melts away in weakness from the skin,
Read full poem →But neither sensual passion, nor gay and cynical wit, nor scorn
and anger, is the dominant note in Donne's love-poetry. Of the last
Read full poem →Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Read full poem →motives by the Lady against their opposites in the mouth of the Lord of
sensual Revel." _Milton: Classical Writers_. In the third scene the Lady
Alice and her brothers are presented by the Spirit to their noble father
Read full poem →Still first to fly where sensual joys invade,
Read full poem →And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid,
Still first to fly where sensual joys invade;
Unfit in these degenerate times of shame
Read full poem →of the earlier type. Cyrenaic would be a juster epithet, the "_carpe
diem_" doctrine of the poem is too gross and sensual to have commended
itself to the real Epicurus. Intense fatalism, side by side with
Read full poem →Fresh sprung from Heaven in Raiment undefiled
Of Sensual Taint, and therefore call'd Salámán.
And who Absál?—The Lust-adoring Body,
Read full poem →Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,
Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,
No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,