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
And yet there were moments of astonishing liquidity, voluptuousness, delicacy and fullness, and her Protean mystery became more evident than ever.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2015
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
In the eighteenth century this ideal became mere desire; love became voluptuousness, which was to be found in art, music, styles, fashions--in everything.
From Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) by Hugo Paul Thieme