voluptuousness

Example Sentences

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They lack the voluptuousness of perfume or actual flowers, and arrive at the table filtered and secondhand, attenuated and almost austere.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021

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

Blowup: The Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni brought an intellectual voluptuousness to Europe’s postwar anomie; his English-language debut film also defined Swinging London’s new generation of cool kids who have it all and still feel empty.

From Time • May 17, 2012

Besides ambition and cupidity, the motives commonly attributed to the poisoners, it was imagined that this action included an indefinable, diabolical voluptuousness of enjoyment, an attractiveness stronger than the will.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro