pulchritudinous

Example Sentences

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Unlike the fleshy, pulchritudinous and radiant nudes of Rubens and Renoir, Mr. Pearlstein’s models are painted as ordinary human beings.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022

Camera angles, special effects and editing preserve the illusion that it is a pulchritudinous star leaping off a building or driving through a window rather than a man in drag.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2018

The pulchritudinous guitar player has lately become the achy heart of Nashville—as well as most of its connective tissue.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2013

"She was, I decided, the most astonishingly self-contained, pulchritudinous, remote, removed, inaccessible woman I had ever seen," Burton wrote in a diary passage quoted in Melvyn Bragg's 1988 biography of the Welsh actor.

From Chicago Tribune • Mar. 23, 2011

In Eugene Maleska crossword terminology, he's braw and pulchritudinous, while Will Shortz, current puzzle editor for The New York Times, might define him as a "wower," the clue being "Turns heads, in a way."

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris