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  • Thumbnail for Rudy Vallée
    microphones, in this case, promoted direct access to "a vulnerable and sensuous interior," or in other words, "a conjured intimacy". Vallée was one of...
    33 KB (3,061 words) - 14:29, 16 November 2024
  • conservative than that of many of his contemporaries. It is characterised by a sensuous lyricism, highly skilled craftsmanship, and an original usage of tonality...
    9 KB (999 words) - 12:36, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joseph Conrad
    experiences; when he spoke of his work, there came over them a sort of misty, sensuous, dreamy look, but they seemed to hold deep down the ghosts of old adventures...
    165 KB (22,535 words) - 07:07, 16 November 2024
  • covers four sections describing classes of Women. Divided into classes of temperament and the same correspond with the four different phases of Moksha, or...
    101 KB (12,278 words) - 21:28, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Walter Pater
    particular temperament." Theory, hypothesis, beliefs depend a great deal on temperament; they are, so to speak, mere equivalents of temperament. — Marius...
    50 KB (6,114 words) - 10:56, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alex Mendelssohn
    Alex Mendelssohn art piece is the opalescent luster and an other-worldly sensuous quality that creates a sparkly zestful presence. In a video interview by...
    13 KB (1,557 words) - 12:26, 17 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Nobel laureates in Literature
    nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament" novel, poetry 1922 Jacinto Benavente (1866–1954)  Spain Spanish "for...
    109 KB (2,795 words) - 15:36, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Albert Roussel
    will never attain the popularity of Debussy or Ravel, as his work lacks sensuous appeal....yet he was an important and compelling French composer. Upon...
    17 KB (2,112 words) - 10:12, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ingrid Bergman
    way her face seems to have an inner light on film. Was there ever a more sensuous actress in the movies?" In 1956, Bergman also starred in a French adaptation...
    172 KB (19,249 words) - 23:27, 13 November 2024
  • training to become an MMA fighter. He is loyal and kind but has a quick temperament, often using his strength and fighting skills to solve disagreements...
    50 KB (4,787 words) - 07:01, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anton Rubinstein
    Rubini sang." Schonberg has assessed Rubinstein's piano tone the most sensuous of any of the great pianists. Fellow pianist Rafael Joseffy compared it...
    46 KB (5,845 words) - 05:29, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Claude Debussy
    progress. Marmontel said of him, "A charming child, a truly artistic temperament; much can be expected of him". Another teacher was less impressed: Émile...
    103 KB (12,020 words) - 06:34, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leaves of Grass
    sterile & stingy Nature, as if too much handiwork or too much lymph in the temperament were making our western wits fat & mean. I give you joy of your free...
    42 KB (5,275 words) - 19:43, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
    the face was equally true. His portraits of women range from the warmly sensuous Madame de Senonnes (1814) to the realistic Mademoiselle Jeanne Gonin (1821)...
    82 KB (11,403 words) - 18:25, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boléro
    with tragedy, observing that the snare drum "dehumanizes one of the most sensuously connotative aspects of the bolero", "instruments with the capacity for...
    38 KB (3,632 words) - 18:40, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Guido Cavalcanti
    through the poet's mind in a very detailed, personal manner, creating sensuous, autobiographic poetry. This is revolutionary compared to the rhetoric...
    30 KB (3,745 words) - 18:53, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kama Sutra
    Hinduism and its culture, rejecting as "filthy paganism" anything they found sensuous and sexual in Hindu arts and literature. The "Hindus were cowering under...
    81 KB (8,613 words) - 13:16, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Immanuel Kant
    independence of our will from the "coercion" or "necessitation through sensuous impulses". Kant finds it a source of difficulty that the practical idea...
    155 KB (18,987 words) - 18:37, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Painting
    make important works of art in a wide variety of styles and aesthetic temperaments—their merits are left to the public and the marketplace to judge. The...
    88 KB (9,381 words) - 19:54, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Friedrich Eduard Beneke
    sensations of the special senses are gradually formed from the primary sensuous feelings (sensliche Empfindungen); concepts are formed from intuitions...
    14 KB (1,731 words) - 08:01, 20 August 2024
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