voluptuousness
Example Sentences
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The hair remains longest on top, and a fade, undercut, or harsh disconnect enhances the style’s potential for voluptuousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
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
But when I had it, Mr. Weissman’s challah, although toasted, was going stale and the eggs didn’t have the voluptuousness achieved at, say, Jean-Georges.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2014
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
Even supposing that an avaricious, ambitious, or timid man refrains from an excess of eating, drinking, or sexual intercourse, avarice, ambition, and fear are not therefore the opposites of voluptuousness, drunkenness, or lust.
From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Joseph Ratner