voluptuousness
- a word derived from voluptuous.
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
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
Tuesday’s Titania was Maria Kowroski: although there is more power and voluptuousness to this choreography than she shows, it always does this dancer good to be part of a comedy.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2012
All the wealth and fashion of Laodicea were there, Christian and heathen; and all that the classic voluptuousness of Oriental Greece could give to shed enchantment over the scene was there.
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
