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

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

There, all is order and loveliness, Luxury, calm and voluptuousness.

From The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles