Love is the poetry of the senses. From LearnThat.org. [Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), French writer.]
Wired for sound: How the brain senses visual illusions. From Wordnik.com. [April 11th, 2007] Reference
She's frightened by what she senses is happening to her. From Wordnik.com. [Becoming 'parent of your parent' an emotionally wrenching process] Reference
Amateurs -- in the laudable and the pejorative senses of the word. From Wordnik.com. [What They Do for Love] Reference
The science behind our 5 senses is really interesting educational fodder. From Wordnik.com. [I can’t believe my eyes!] Reference
The education of the senses is most important from both these points of view. From Wordnik.com. [The Montessori Method] Reference
This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was ‘finding his feet as a writer’. From Wordnik.com. [2009 May | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
And to what extent this virtual reality engages all five senses is not made completely clear. From Wordnik.com. [June « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy] Reference
The amount of time spent by the brain waiting for real data from your senses is considerable. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » Persistence of Vision : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
If not out of the goodness of their hearts, but out of longterm senses of lifestyle preservation. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
This is especially so when the jargon uses common words in senses that differ from their common meaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Beg the Question”] Reference
In long term senses losing any amount of money is bad; therefore learn to be careful with your betting and calling. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
The development of the main senses took place in OF., and is not free from obscurity (cf., however, couth and known). From Wordnik.com. [Two letters] Reference
Words of this class fortunately never make their way, in their slang senses, into literature (except, of course, dialogue). From Wordnik.com. [Slang.] Reference
It required little to recall the senses of Eleanor. From Wordnik.com. [Rookwood] Reference
Which of my senses was the prey of a fatal illusion?. From Wordnik.com. [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference
But each of the senses is a boon, particularly sight!. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
To love, there are those things which words name senses. From Wordnik.com. [Don Juan] Reference
"Our senses are the landing-ports of our spiritual enemies.". From Wordnik.com. [Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow] Reference
One of the very first objects which arrests your senses is the. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2] Reference
In this case I discerned it by all five senses, which is unusual. From Wordnik.com. [Raspberry Jam] Reference
It might truly be said that with them the senses were the intellect. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
Yet I could not bear to think that his senses should be the victims of such delusion. From Wordnik.com. [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Taste] Reference
The senses are the single source of our ideas, and furnish its models to the imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot] Reference
Reft from my senses are the laws which gave order and place to their old questionless realm. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference
The senses are the interpreters between the material universe without and the spirit within. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes] Reference
The senses are the first of our faculties to mature; they are those most frequently overlooked or neglected. From Wordnik.com. [Emile] Reference
The senses are the aching doors to the greatest mystery of all, the mystery of our tyranny over one another. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
He wondered vaguely if the strange, dull feeling that was creeping over his senses was the result of extreme fatigue. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of the Lamp] Reference
What brought me to my senses was the boat hook, which had been lying on the seat beside me, suddenly falling to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Roscoe Paine] Reference
The musicals share several unfortunate traits, not least the belief that assaulting the senses is the same as engaging them. From Wordnik.com. [UH-OH! TOMMY TUNES OUT] Reference
He even knew at times a stirring of the senses, which is the farthest that many of his kind ever progress in the direction of love. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
If their senses are the same, their associations and dispositions similar, then the same thing will certainly be beautiful to both. From Wordnik.com. [The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory] Reference
Since our senses are the first instruments to our learning, corporeal and sensible bodies are the only bodies we directly apprehend. From Wordnik.com. [Emile] Reference
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