voluptuousness

Example Sentences

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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

And yet there were moments of astonishing liquidity, voluptuousness, delicacy and fullness, and her Protean mystery became more evident than ever.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2015

They included Miuccia Prada, who used fuller-figured models on her runway, and Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton, who staged a Parisian love story around a shooting fountain, with clothes designed with voluptuousness in mind.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2015

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

There, all is order and loveliness, Luxury, calm and voluptuousness.

From The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles