sensuous

Her flickering intensity and his full-bodied sensuosity are drawn towards each other like magnets.

Bodies in his paintings have a pre-lapsarian, pre-gendered sensuosity. Figures languish near ponds, zoom around on cloud banks, loll in gardens.

It takes a deft hand not only to make us believe in the varied flesh-and-blood cast of characters and their beknotted lines of action (unknotted at the very end) but also to make us smell Africa, feel the voluptuous contact between human skins of different colors, rejoice in a sensuosity at once voluptuous and coolly observed, its heat utterly controlled, like a glowing horseshoe under the blows of an expert blacksmith.