gorgeousness
Example Sentences
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“One of the most beautiful vegetables to grace our planet,” Selengut says of romanesco’s alien gorgeousness in her book, noting that it’s “also the mathematical nerd’s veggie of choice,” given its Fibonacci sequence formations.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024
It was “a revolutionary production” that was “renowned for its realism, the intimacy and the gorgeousness of the setting, the painterly qualities,” said Mr. Fisher of The Times.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2024
Over a 70-year career, Freud concerned himself almost exclusively with getting paint to convey the living weight and mortal gorgeousness of the human body and of other things close at hand, living and dead.
From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022
It’s an ignoble thing we’ve done to a landscape whose gorgeousness brought us here in the first place.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021
A more general and surely less parochial view was that his face had been just barely saved from too-handsomeness, not to say gorgeousness, by virtue of one ear’s protruding slightly more than the other.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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