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
Strauss’s score is an irresistible mix of voluptuousness, bristling modern harmony, heaving orchestral intensity and high camp.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2014
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
In this respect the passion-flower would be the fittest symbol of Christianity itself, whose most awe-inspiring charm consists in the voluptuousness of pain.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine