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fleshiness



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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

Rothko’s thunder is stolen by Isamu Noguchi’s striking 1945 sculpture “Kouros,” whose biomorphic pieces of pink and gray marble have a smooth fleshiness and a generally figurative configuration.

From New York Times Dec. 20, 2018

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

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




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