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sensuous and quality
* Description: A more supple soprano, capable of legato, portamento, and some agility ; generally has a more soulful and sensuous quality than a soubrette, who tends to be largely flirtatious and somewhat tweety.

sensuous and natural
Marx thus departs from Hegel by insisting that " the fact that man is a corporeal, actual, sentient, objective being with natural capacities means that he has actual, sensuous objects for his nature as objects of his life-expression, or that he can only express his life in actual sensuous objects.
Instead, Marx said that fetishism is " the religion of sensuous appetites ", and that the fantasy of the appetites tricks the fetish worshipper into believing that an inanimate object will yield its natural character to gratify the desires of the worshipper.

sensuous and light
One contemporary described the young Catherine as " of medium height, with an elegant figure, silky ivory skin, the eyes of a frightened gazelle, a sensuous mouth, and light chestnut tresses.

sensuous and through
Thus, in the language of some Jewish poets, the beloved one's curls indicate the mysteries of the Deity ; sensuous pleasures, and especially intoxication, typify the highest degree of divine love as ecstatic contemplation ; while the wine-room represents merely the state through which the human qualities merge or are exalted into those of God.
The dual perspective that results acknowledges the sensuous attraction of a dazzling theatrical occasion, but also penetrates the showy surface ; for in it there is “ a huge zest for life and the moral strength to see through it its glitter, its hypocrisies, its shame and its rewards .”
The touch of melodramatic exaggeration, however, which runs through them finds an apology in the firm and brilliant play of line, in the freshness and vigour of the flesh tints, in the enticing softness of expression, by the alluring air of health and youth, by the sensuous attractions, in short, with which Greuze invests his lessons of bourgeois morality.
earth-fire-the picture shows in close-up a black African with large gold earrings and a ring through his / her nose ; the lips are full and pink, the eyes half-closed, sultry and sensuous ; the expression is warm and friendly.
# The Slave ( Earth and Fire ): A black African with large gold earrings and a ring through her nose ; the lips are full and pink, the eyes half-closed, sultry and sensuous ; the expression is warm and friendly.
We can intuit things a priori only through the mere form of sensuous intuition.
They are known only through sensuous intuition.

sensuous and art
Hadrian " turned to sculptors to perpetuate the melancholy beauty, diffident manner, and lithe and sensuous frame of his boyfriend Antinous ," creating in the process what has been described as " the last independent creation of Greco-Roman art ".
All accounts agree in representing Giorgione as a person of distinguished and romantic charm, a great lover and a musician, given to express in his art the sensuous and imaginative grace, touched with poetic melancholy, of the Venetian existence of his time.
That is, to approach art works with a strong emphasis on form, to “ reveal the sensuous surface of art without mucking about in it .”
Greco-Buddhist art is characterized by the strong idealistic realism and sensuous description of Hellenistic art and the first representations of the Buddha in human form, which have helped define the artistic ( and particularly, sculptural ) canon for Buddhist art throughout the Asian continent up to the present.
When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, when I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history, and its sensuous qualities, images of other places start to invade this process of precise observation: images of places I know and that once impressed me, images of ordinary or special places places that I carry with me as inner visions of specific moods and qualities ; images of architectural situations, which emanate from the world of art, or films, theater or literature .”
To viewers schooled in the Western tradition, Indian art may seem overly ornate and sensuous ; appreciation of its refinement comes only gradually, as a rule.

sensuous and with
Goethe believed that the Germanic spirit, with its grave strength but flagrant streaks of brutality and intolerance, should be tempered with the old sensuous wisdom and humanism of the Hellenic.
Trained by his father who was a lace designer, Boucher won fame with his sensuous and light-hearted mythological paintings and landscapes.
The once common " Orientalist " approach, with its the image of a sensuous, inscrutable, and wholly spiritual India, has died out in serious scholarship.
Striptease involves a slow, sensuous undressing, with the audience urging the stripper to remove more clothing.
Moreover, the sensuous juxtaposition of flesh with the texture of drapery, which seems about to slip off the figure, adds an insistent note of erotic tension that is thoroughly Hellenistic in concept and intent.
In the 12th century Razi's " Treatise of the Self and the Spirit " ( Kitab al Nafs Wa ’ l Ruh ) analyzed different types of pleasure, sensuous and intellectual, and explained their relations with one another.
According to this, happiness should coincide with the consciousness of virtue, though its reference to the relations of human life requires the additional condition, that it is only in the enjoyment of the good things and circumstances originally designed for it by nature that it attains to completion ; to these good things, however, sensuous gratification does not belong.
Becker suggests that Meyerbeer in all his grand operas often ' created a deliberately ' unbeautiful ' sound ..... with unusual orchestration designed to express ... content rather than produce a sensuous sound ' and opines that this explains much of the criticism he received from German writers on music.
Starting with Beyond Recall, the first half of the 1990s was the notorious " sample " period, when Schulze used a wide variety of pre-recorded sounds such as screeching birds and sensuous female moans in his studio albums and live performances.
Immanuel Kant in 1781 criticised this use and applied it in accordance with its classical meaning " the philosophy of sensuous perception ".
Rongali Bihu is also a fertility festival, where the bihu dance with its sensuous movements using the hips, arms, etc., by the young women call out to celebrate their fertility.
As in much moralistic genre painting, the enjoyment evoked by the sensuous depiction of the subject is in a certain conflict with the moralistic message.
Seeking to reconcile his thought with this earlier age, Herder sought to harmonize his conception of sentiment with reason, whereby all knowledge is implicit in the soul ; the most elementary stage is sensuous and intuitive perception which by development can become self-conscious and rational.
Knight ’ s emphasis on the roles of sensation and of emotion were constituative of later Romantic and Victorian aesthetic thinking, as was his vexed struggle with the relation between moral feeling and sensuous pleasure.
Although opposed to the conception of the corporeality of God, as being contrary to Scripture, he would consider it wrong to reject all the sensuous concepts of anthropomorphism, as there is something in these ideas which fills the human soul with the awe of God.
The right half-face ( west face ) shows him as a young person with sensuous lips, embodying life and its vitality.
Tall, voluptuous, with masses of auburn hair, slanting, heavy-lidded blue-violet eyes, alabaster skin, and a sensuous, sulky mouth, Barbara Villiers was considered to be one of the most beautiful of the Royalist women, but her lack of fortune left her with reduced marriage prospects.

sensuous and traditional
To these poets, good poetry meant simple, sensuous content, and traditional, conventional and dignified form.

sensuous and which
Marx sought to base human social organization within the context of the material reproduction of their daily lives, which he calls sensuous practice in his early works ( Marx 1844, 1845 ).
He referred knowledge ( episteme ) to that essence which is the object of pure thought, and is not included in the phenomenal world ; sensation ( aisthesis ) to that which passes into the world of phenomena ; opinion ( doxa ) to that essence which is at once the object of sensuous perception, and, mathematically, of pure reason-the essence of heaven or the stars ; so that he conceived of doxa in a higher sense, and endeavoured, more definitely than Plato, to exhibit mathematics as mediating between knowledge and sensuous perception All three modes of apprehension partake of truth ; but in what manner scientific perception ( epistemonike aisthesis ) did so, we unfortunately do not learn.
The theory of God is prefaced by a development of the view that human knowledge arises by degrees from the merest sensuous impressions to the most subtle concepts ; so that the idea of the divine, which transcends all other knowledge in subtlety, is itself a proof of its verity.
Marx dismissed that argument, and Hermes's definition of religion as that which elevates man " above sensuous appetites ".
With Plato, moreover, he distinguished between that which is the object of thought, and that which is the object of sensuous perception, between the cognition of the reason and sensuous perception.
His modeling is in a lyrical, classical art-deco manner which effortlessly combines sensuous curves with geometric line patterns.
Ironically, the sentiment of kaiho is central to the Finnish tango, in stark contrast to the Argentine tango, which is predominantly sensuous.

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