sexiness

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Christina Ramberg and Martha Edelheit upend notions of sexiness in their paintings, thumbing their noses at the “male gaze.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Streisand’s boundlessness, her capaciousness — the lack of precedent for her whole-enchilada ambitions, the daffiness, the sexiness, the talent, orchestration, passion, originality; her persistence and indefatigability; the outfits; the hair — were a watershed.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2023

Through headphones, for instance, the haughty and haunted “Still Your Best” tries at sexiness, but ends up sounding surly.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2021

She doesn't feel like feminism and sexiness are contradictory, but, she admits, there's also a part of her that feels like "resistance is futile, at this point."

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2016

Sometimes the representamen is price, which is supposed to reflect the elements listed above, as well as other pricing criteria: a trend, a product's sexiness; a buyer's gullibility, ego, or lack of economic sense.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai