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voluptuous

[vuh-luhp-choo-uhs] / vəˈlʌp tʃu əs /


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“It’s a film noir that is also starring cartoon characters, and it’s got this collision of tones,” Green says of Zemeckis’ landmark, a movie that somehow bridges bonk-on-the-head mania with a voluptuous femme fatale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

From the beginning of her fame she was unlike anyone else: skinny, flat-chested and big-footed in an era of such voluptuous icons as Marilyn Monroe and Sophia Loren.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Its narrative arc is as thoroughly well-documented as that voluptuous lobster spaghetti.

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2024

Fernando Botero, the Colombian whose voluptuous pictures and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes, housewives and other products of his whimsical imagination made him one of the world’s best-known artists, died on Friday in Monaco.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

The skyline was intricate and voluptuous and enchanted and absurd.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut


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