voluptuousness

Example Sentences

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Though conducting from the harpsichord, Haïm was mostly on her feet, in vivid contact with a small orchestra and bringing her unique combination of modern-day fire and voluptuousness to Handel.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2020

Whip the cream until thick and airy but still with a soft voluptuousness about it, and set it aside for a mo.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2017

The great abstractions of existence — capitalism, say, or evolution, or the expanding universe — are no more consequential in our lives than, as Gide insisted, “the voluptuousness of objects.”

From Time • Mar. 2, 2014

Like the other excellent moments of the film, it bristled with the unpredictable energy and decadent voluptuousness of a Fellini movie.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2011

He who does not restrain voluptuousness is in the category of the beasts.

From Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo da Vinci