voluptuousness

Example Sentences

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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

They included Miuccia Prada, who used fuller-figured models on her runway, and Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton, who staged a Parisian love story around a shooting fountain, with clothes designed with voluptuousness in mind.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2015

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

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

Louis XIV. had created for himself a sort of elysium of voluptuousness in the celebrated gardens of Marly.

From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)