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  • n  a sensuous feeling

  • Giving sizzle to this sweet-and-sour cinema was Gong Li, the star of Zhang's and Chen's best-known films, and a statuesque beauty whose defiant sensuousness roiled under her tight .
  • The dissonances of Wagner's life are scanted, but the sonic sensuousness of his work is served boldly, briefly and well.
  • On the other hand, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, it enhances a scene of lyric sensuousness in which a girl models for her artist-lover with her back to the audience.
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  • Eliane Elias and South Florida Jazz Orchestra at Miami Nice Jazz Festival
    Eliane Elias is often noted for the sensuousness of her music. Reviewers fall sway to her distinctive and seductive voice, which draws from her Brazilian bossa nova roots, as well as the great jazz pantheon, classical music and her own compositional skills. With 23 albums to date, she has been nominated for five Grammy awards, along with other international accolades. For this special concert to ...
    Sept. 24, 2013 - Miami Gardens News
Quotes

  • Cecilia Bartoli in NPR
    The age of the castratos was one of the most dazzling and remarkable in European music history,Bartoli says. "Seldom has there been such a complete fusion of sensuousness and splendor, form and content, poetry and music and, above all,...
  • Thom Mayne in New York Times
    I've shown a softer side; my wife is really teasing me,Mr. Mayne, 62, said in an interview at Morphosis, his firm in Santa Monica. "The sensuousness of Paris found its way into the project."
  • Robert Hughes in Washington Post
    Noland's circle paintings, in particular, seemed to expel everything 'inessential' to painting,critic Robert Hughes wrote in his book "American Visions." "A blazing sensuousness of color carried them, intensified by the circular format;...

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