Amrita Sher-Gil did not sensualise her women but instead portrayed them as facing great adversity yet having the spirit to transcend a destiny that they were unable to change.

You're not allowed to breed, but you can sensualize, so long as you wash yourself afterward and don't do it where they can smell you at it.

Asmahan, the protagonist, is presented as a well-to-do independent woman who is able to sensualize the beauty of the land, the concept of home, and the country in itself, even in times of war.

Two silk-and-fur corner sculptures by Lizzie Scott soften and sensualize the gallery's functionalist architecture, while Patricia Smith's cartographic drawings propose the dubiously utopian design of an ashram that doubles as a corporate retreat.

In Qom, unlike in the other Iranian cities I visited, I noticed little greenery, few water channels, few attempts, in short, to sensualize the urban landscape in the way that Persians usually do so brilliantly.

'True to Modernism' "He remained true to modernism, but managed to sensualize it with soft and rich forms, textures and colors -his work was brilliant and his research, ongoing and open-minded," said Michael Sorkin, the architecture critic of the Village Voice and a New York architect.