The sensation of driving ninety-five miles an hour over flawless roads, with towering mountains watching over you while music reverberated through the car was a sensuous joy.

Never had I known such a thrill of sensuous joy as came with that freshet of life.

As he grew more accustomed to amplified muscles he found a sensuous joy that he had not anticipated in this distance-gulping movement.

All his nightmarish thoughts and fearful worries fled for the moment as the sensuous joy of this wondrous Gift of Pleasure from the Mother filled him, leaving no room for any other thoughts except his love for her.

A youthful, vital body that makes every breath a sensuous joy...a century of rich experience, with the wisdom-if that is the right word-that age brings.

Elizabeth Harris Gallery 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea Through Oct. 5 Ah, the sensuous joys of wallowing in pigment, thick, gooey, luscious as cake icing, ready for a lick.

As the twelfth man slipped convulsively into death, Coeurl emerged abruptly from the sensuous joy of the kill to the sound of footsteps.

The key passages in that chapter reflect Thoreau's sensuous joys - walking barefoot, watching birds, even observing the depredations of woodchucks.

He had declined three dinner invitations in favour of this feast; but though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was reading, and one book after another dropped from his hand.

He went through that room like the great cat he was, silent but deadly, and emerged from the sensuous joy of the kill only when every man in the dormitory was dead.