voluptuary

How To Use voluptuary In A Sentence

• In place of some Hollywood voluptuary, she gives us a Cleopatra who is a working queen and ruler: at one point we even see her in specs sitting at a desk signing state papers. Antony and Cleopatra - review
• A display cabinet of ornaments, including a china voluptuary bathing in something foamy, is to become a particular favourite.
• He himself, who has been described as a voluptuary, delighted in the endurance of cold and heat and of severe labor. Famous Affinities of History — Volume 2
• She had become an accomplished voluptuary; indeed, many said she was destined to become a diva. THE BROKEN GOD
• She defies all convention by playing the character not as some swaggering voluptuary but as a gracious, humane woman whose mission is to prevent her daughter repeating her mistakes.
• I had become what is called a voluptuary; and to be a voluptuary is a physical condition like the condition of a victim of the morphine habit, of a drunkard, and of a smoker. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories [a machine-readable transcription]
• But he had already realised the tragedy of the voluptuary, which is, after a little time, not that he must go on living, but that he cannot live in two places at once. The Works of Max Beerbohm
• The injury to the child would be far less if the voluptuary said frankly "I beat you because I like beating you; and I shall do it whenever I can contrive an excuse for it.
• A massive nude such as Seated Woman is less constrained by social identity than the businessmen, yet her stilted and impassive air suggests not a voluptuary but a studio model.
• They were so at home that a complaint was sent to the East India Company headquarters, ‘that the household of a Factor bore a stronger resemblance to the harem of some Mussulman voluptuary than to the household of a Christian trader.’