fleshiness

Example Sentences

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Because of their size and fleshiness, these water lilies are notoriously difficult to collect, preserve, and study.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 4, 2022

At the end of this, I don’t need some crazy new fleshiness.

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2021

She had always celebrated the bodies of women – bruised, contorted or mutilated – in portraits that owed something to Lucian Freud’s images of female fleshiness.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2020

Rothko’s thunder is stolen by Isamu Noguchi’s striking 1945 sculpture “Kouros,” whose biomorphic pieces of pink and gray marble have a smooth fleshiness and a generally figurative configuration.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2018

Yet for all the splendor of his garb, he remained an ugly man, big-boned and slopeshouldered, with a fleshiness to him that suggested that in later life he would run to fat.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin