voluptuousness

Example Sentences

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The hair remains longest on top, and a fade, undercut, or harsh disconnect enhances the style’s potential for voluptuousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023

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

Strauss’s score is an irresistible mix of voluptuousness, bristling modern harmony, heaving orchestral intensity and high camp.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2014

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

Therefore the poet may just as well sing of voluptuousness as of mysticism, be Anacreon or Angelus Silesius, write tragedies or comedies, represent the sublime or the common mind—according to humour or vocation.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur