Literary notes about sensate (AI summary)
The term "sensate" is often employed to evoke both physical responsiveness and a vivid, almost animate quality in objects or beings. In one context, it suggests heightened awareness or the capacity to feel danger, as seen when a character becomes so attuned to peril that he senses an unseen threat [1]. It is also used to animate non-human entities, imbuing them with restless, almost desperate energy—as when a coat or even a leaf is portrayed as capable of struggling for refuge [2, 3]. Moreover, the word can extend to describe the luxuriant, life-affirming quality of beauty, rendering a woman’s hair full of palpable, renewed life [4]. In more abstract or metaphysical discourse, "sensate" is questioned in relation to divine perception, prompting reflections on whether such enriched capacity to feel applies even to God [5, 6]. Overall, its varied usage enriches the texture of narrative by bridging the tangible and the transcendent [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15].
- I think that he had grown so sensate to dangers that he felt one then, but couldn't locate it."
— from Wings of the Wind by Credo Fitch Harris - Even his hat and coat were sensate things, struggling madly to get away to a safe refuge.
— from David Malcolm by Nelson Lloyd - Barely a leaf in the big maple was astir, not a single sensate thing.
— from The Dominant Dollar by Will Lillibridge - Her glorious black hair had not the dampness of death in it now, but was luxuriously sensate with renewed life and health and possible happiness.
— from Eleven Possible Cases by Maurice Thompson - Is there anything beyond "God" for "God" to sensate?
— from A Few Words About the Devil, and Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Charles Bradlaugh - Is there anything beyond “God” for God to sensate?
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh - With shrinking eyes she saw the beast Rolling in agony, until At last the sensate struggles ceased, And all that mighty frame was still.
— from Indian Legends of Minnesota - At the horror of feeling one of his own manacled hands attacking his face savagely as if it were itself a sensate thing, Ortiz opened his eyes.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 by Various - "No! we were breathing, sensate things, were human kin and kind.
— from The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars Being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap - We had also some very pleasant little suppers with pretty sinners in company with Don Francesco Sensate and Count Ranucci.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - He seemed to tear his eyes from the writhing hands that [248] were peculiarly sensate, as if under the control of in intelligence alien to his own.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Various - Its long, funnel-shaped form dipped and lifted, trailing back and forth like some sensate thing.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter - It is the declamation, when the model is alive or sensate; it is the tone, when the model is insensate.
— from Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 - Yet out upon the sun-drawn sensate sea Of elemental pain, there came a word As if from Him who travelled Galilee, As fair as any Zion ever heard.
— from A Lover's Diary, Volume 2. by Gilbert Parker - He was hardly more sensate in his progress than a nail drawn irresistibly by a magnet.
— from The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer
