fleshiness

Example Sentences

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Because of their size and fleshiness, these water lilies are notoriously difficult to collect, preserve, and study.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 4, 2022

She had always celebrated the bodies of women – bruised, contorted or mutilated – in portraits that owed something to Lucian Freud’s images of female fleshiness.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2020

This surreal, disembodied effect heightens the impression of an abstract fleshiness, as if the nose has become a separate entity.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2016

From the late 1950s, when he began using a stiffer brush and moving paint in great swaths around the canvas, Mr. Freud’s nudes took on a new fleshiness and mass.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2011

Yet for all the splendor of his garb, he remained an ugly man, big-boned and slopeshouldered, with a fleshiness to him that suggested that in later life he would run to fat.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin