At 42 Ms. Mattila conveys youthful sensuality and impulsiveness better than most singers in their 20's.

Several figures of Parvati, Shiva's wife, convey sensuality and dignity at the same time.

Flaubert uses many liquid images to convey sensuality, boredom, and even death.

And the ravishing and ravaged-looking Ms. Onat, though Turkish, expertly conveys Italian-style sensuality as Americans came to think of it through the films of Anna Magnani.

In the portrait of Asher Wertheimer, for example, they have suggested that a steely expression and moist lips convey miserliness and sensuality.

She has soft blond hair, soft brown cat eyes and a languid smile that simultaneously conveys sensuality and amused detachment.

Ingres instead favored long lines to convey curvature and sensuality, as well as abundant, even light to tone down the volume.

John Harbison's "Mirabai Songs," which convey passion and sensuality in a shifting density of chromaticism, are enchantingly sung.

But what sinks The Hi-Lo Country is Patricia Arquette's Mona, who's supposed to convey sleepy sensuality but seems merely to be on Quaaludes.

The music conveys sensuality and breathless drama though not, for me, the mysterious and obsessive dimensions of the story.