How To Use Voluptuous In A Sentence

It was one of these dishes that are a tasting menu in and of themselves, giving you the sensory pleasures of a voluptuous feast - only in tiny, manageable portions.
It's not sort of limp, it has a voluptuousness to it. Opulently Hidden, In Plain Sight
Colorado Plateau sandstone is nearly totemic in texture and color: voluptuously carved by wind and water, bared to a glory of sunset colors.
Nevertheless, the voluptuous figures that adorn his ormolu mounts and the fluidity of his designs gave Linke's pieces their characteristic blend of ancien regime and Art Nouveau, that made them stand out.
It contains, among other things of merit, a lullaby, called "Sleep, Little Tulip," with a remarkably artistic and effective pedal-point on two notes (the submediant and the dominant) sustained through the entire song with a fine fidelity to the words and the lullaby spirit; a "Nocturne" in which Nevin has revealed an unsuspected voluptuousness in Mr. Aldrich 'little lyric, and has written a song of irresistible climaxes. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and

I'm perfectly happy with the voluptuous curves of the woman I love.
I have been told that many of them wear patent complexions, "boughten" bangs, and pad out scrawny forms until they appear voluptuous Junos, and thereby deceive and ensnare, bedazzle and beguile the unsuspecting sons of men. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful bodies, those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of middle-agedness, Linda advanced into the room, coquettishly smiling her broken and discoloured smile, and rolling as she walked, with what was meant to be a voluptuous undulation, her enormous haunches. Brave New World
Sexual excitement is accompanied throughout by a sensation of pleasure, specifically known as _voluptuous pleasure_, the _voluptuous sensation_, or simply _voluptuousness_ (in Latin, _libido sexualis_). The Sexual Life of the Child
Ellen" is an anime-looking voluptuous mannequin that's been adapted to house a PC. Boing Boing: May 4, 2003 - May 10, 2003 Archives
By which means it is, yet by my courtesy, that scarce any kind of men live more voluptuously or with less trouble; as believing that Christ will be well enough pleased if in their mystical and almost mimical pontificality, ceremonies, titles of holiness and the like, and blessing and cursing, they play the parts of bishops. In Praise of Folly
She had a smile that could light up a street full of people and was extremely lively, had a particular type of voluptuousness - a Rodin sculpture come to life. She reminded me of a libertine heroine. She was just my type.
His works are known for a certain voluptuousness and ripe sensuality, his figures lacking much of the grace and elegance of earlier bijin prints, but emphasizing in their place worldliness and a less disguised or mediated sexuality.
So we stirred in a voluptuous, decadent rum fudge.
IMAGINE that you are a teacher of Roman history and the Latin language, anxious to impart your enthusiasm for the ancient world – for the elegiacs of Ovid and the odes of Horace, the sinewy economy of Latin grammar as exhibited in the oratory of Cicero, the strategic niceties of the Punic Wars, the generalship of Julius Caesar and the voluptuous excesses of the later emperors. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
The backless gown was flattering; she was not a very voluptuous woman, but she was certainly not shapeless either.
She wasn't a glutton in the ordinary sense, but her pleasure in food was voluptuous, especially in dainties like sugared seeds of various kinds, and every kind of confectionery, which seemed to have no effect on her figure. Flashman and the Dragon
His videos invariably feature a harem of voluptuous, bikini-clad lovelies positively gagging to get down with the self-styled Mr Lover Lover.
If you think you are not voluptuous enough, then a belted coat with an oversized collar makes the waist look smaller.
It has a mild, soft, voluptuous flavour and creamy but springy texture. Food Watch
-- 'Specimens of the British Poets', by Thomas Campbell, London, 1819, ii. 134, 'sq'.] [Footnote 5: Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset [1637-1706], esteemed the most accomplished man of his day, was alike distinguished in the voluptuous court of Charles II. and the gloomy one of William III. Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1
Intense red colour with blue tones. Big fruit intensity mainly blackberries, prunes and black cerise aromas. On the palate has a soft, wide and voluptuous attack.
I wasn’t “thick,” as they called voluptuous girls, I was invisible. Fired!
It goes without mentioning that for people who are attracted to voluptuous female sexpots, hands down, it's her body and the way she gyrates, wiggles and shakes her newly-acquired parts that keep eyes glued to her.
Executed in a mixture of black and white marble, red, orange and brown terracotta and blue and green glass, the mosaics retain their voluptuous, dazzling intensity.
He has left it on record in one of his letters that he was a victim at one period of "the worst voluptuousness, an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages. The Art of Letters
He rebukes himself for his abandonment to 'the worst voluptuousness, which is an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages.' Figures of Several Centuries
a voluptuously curved woman
If you are expecting voluptuous women, cascading flesh, and all the excess of full-blown Baroque painting, you will be disappointed.
Reverend J.T. Becher, prebendary of Southwell minster, who objected to what he considered the too voluptuous coloring of the poem Fugitive Pieces
He has worked on the theme since the early 1990s: from small buns to voluptuous ones, from the ordinary to the sensual, working with various materials.
She wandered out of the small washroom only to run into a rather voluptuous woman wearing flaring robes of red and black.
Even as I leave, feeling bosomy and floaty and voluptuous in the nicest possible way, it's there in the back of my mind.
He likes the fleshy folds in a voluptuous woman's body.
Bank of England was flocci nauci to the voluptuous spendthrift, Gabriel Lucretia — Volume 06
Moreover, there are millions of people who think voluptuous is breathtaking and beautiful. Lacey Schwimmer Flu; Anna Trebunskaya Dances With Mark Dacascos
Cialikate had once been as skinny as a stick, not the voluptuous, busty woman she was now at eighteen.
But when the association between the processes of detumescence and those of contrectation has not yet occurred, the voluptuous sensation is independent of the contrectation impulse. The Sexual Life of the Child
They are full-bodied, voluptuous whites that stop just short of being floozies. New and Old Worlds Meet in Decadent Viogniers
Richard Haryson (1535) was fain to confess, in the deed of surrender, that the monks had, “under the shadow of their rule, vainly detestably, and ungodlily devoured their yearly revenues in continual ingurgitations of their carrion bodies, and in support of their over voluptuous and carnal appetites.” {243b} We cannot but suspect that such language was that of their enemies, put into their mouths, when resistance was no longer possible. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
The high street is packed full of bright stripes that should not be avoided just because you have a more voluptuous shape. The Sun
Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence
This ‘boyish’ and youthful ideal reigned during the 1920s, succeeded by a sensual and voluptuous ideal in the 1930s.
The sparse, tilelike geometry of a 2009 work by Bernard Piffaretti parses the voluptuous blues and greens of a 1977 canvas by Joan Mitchell. NYT > Home Page
But we must always remember that in the child more often than in the adult the voluptuous acme and the sense of satisfaction occur independently of the processes of contrectation. The Sexual Life of the Child
The taste in my neighbourhood was for voluptuous women.
She was barely dressed, with just a white kilt around her waist and jewelry ornamenting her voluptuous body.
The lyrics rarely scratch below the surface - "Looks like Cupid just showed up," she later exults, referring to a budding romance - but Evans's voluptuous alto and unwavering conviction help compensate for the frequently lightweight sentiment. Album review: Sara Evans, "Stronger"
Sticking a couple of partially inflated balloons up the front of it only made him look even worse, deformed rather than voluptuous.
My wife and girls fell instantly into dreams while I navigated a causeway suspended between an indigo sky and the sable sea, two voluptuous bodies winking at each other like old lovers.
She is brassy, voluptuous, flirtatious, and fun-loving.
I sank into the bed's voluptuous warmth.
Instead of the elegant simplicity which once characterized this sweet secluded retreat, an air of voluptuousness reigned in every quarter: the paintings, the artfully concealed recesses in which the sofas were placed, the mirrors — all, in short, evinced a taste repugnant to the nicer feelings of true female delicacy — all breathed a fascinating influence, rather calculated to derange the virtuous sensations of the heart, rather than to render them more permanent. Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
The high street is packed full of bright stripes that should not be avoided just because you have a more voluptuous shape. The Sun
= The vulva and the clitoris have no special functions to perform; but in them, in the clitoris particularly, but also in the labia minora, resides the feeling of voluptuousness, the pleasurable sensation experienced during the sexual act. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
Ginny was half a block away, her voluptuous bottom sheathed in coppery velvet. MORE FROM GINNY BATES -- MYRA GETS READY
Nevertheless, her particular conception of, and attitude toward, love does not in the least harm her extreme sensuousness and desirability as a wonderfully voluptuous bed partner.
True to the tradition of convent-educated girls in fiction, Aurora flings herself into a voluptuous life of lunches and lovers.
Lots of times, gals get in hackles about voluptuous panty-flashing video game vixens and the game camera's decadent worship of their rendered flesh. Archive 2008-02-01
These images of voluptuousness made him clench his fists, and a shiver run along his spine.
It's made in Berkshire from unpasteurised sheep's milk, usually reserved for firmer cheeses, but Wigmore is soft and voluptuous.
She wasn't very tall and looking at her voluptuous body and curvy figure I definitely would have guessed her to be older then a high school student.
Or perhaps the weather decides to cloud over for several days straight and without so much sun the zucchinis and tomatoes, for the briefest moment, have decided to stop falling of the vine in voluptuous ripeness. Obscene Fist-Full of Basil
The luxuries of a natch, and the peculiar Oriental beauty of the enchantresses who perfumed their voluptuous Eastern domes, for the pleasure of the haughty English conquerors, were no less attractive than the battles and sieges on which the Captain at other times expatiated. The Surgeon's Daughter
It was that softness, that voluptuousness of her bodily movements, that catlike noiselessness. The Brothers Karamazov
The actress admitted dressing to flatter her voluptuous figure and hourglass curves is by no means an easy task.
A silent crier, tears rolled down her face and her lush, voluptuous mouth shrunk into an old woman's mouth. FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS
Stygian Banks staying for waftage, 'I melt into the air with a voluptuousness so delicate that I am content to be alone. The Enjoyment of Art
Chastity is the third monastic virtue, the opposite of voluptuousness.
Her stick figure turned into voluptuous curves.
a voluptuous woman
Loren was 5ft 8in of Italian voluptuousness, while Ladd was 5ft 5in tall and, in his own words, a man with "the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight".
The heat brings out the scents; not just the crambe, but the dry undertang of artemisias and southernwood, and the bold, voluptuous wafts from lilies, roses and nicotiana.
True, the same power which in the purer age of art embodies gods and heroes only, may be made to express the voluptuous image of a Corinthian courtezan. The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
The Chinese-style dresses, skirts and tops come in shimmering silk and voluptuous velvet.
Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is tickled in his self-love. Les Miserables
Shortly after collapsing into the voluptuous embrace of a velveteen sofa, your body may shut itself down and try to enter a coma.
In woman very often voluptuous pleasure is entirely lacking; certainly such absence is far commoner in women than in men -- a condition of affairs which must on no account be confused with _absence of the sexual impulse_. The Sexual Life of the Child
Just a few years from her death, she's unbelievably voluptuous, which just makes you feel sorry for all the stick people currently embodying our culture's ideal of beauty.
Her voluptuous face, raised as if at the approach of one she has been waiting for, is lit up under the shade of the flat Woffington hat by the reflected lights from her dress, a quilted rose-colored slip with lace over it, a black lace apron and mantilla, and a sacque of striped blue silk. Archive 2010-04-01
She pressed a hasty kiss on my burning lips, giving and prolonging it with the violent voluptuousness of fear, as the spurred boots of her sweetheart made the wooden steps of the stairs creak, and the intriguer was in fear of losing her Dutch linen trousseau and her godroon silver pot. The Queen Pedauque
Officer Robeson inquired, not sure if the woman was referring to the voluptuous breasts bulging from a shirt that strained to hold them in place, or the two young girls in the car, who were now silent and pretending not to be paying attention to their mother. The Punany Experience
Asiatic" temperament, of that voluptuousness, which is connected perhaps with his appreciation of the intimacy, the almost mystical communion of touch, between nature and man. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
Small amounts of oxygen are trickled through the fermentation tank causing the yeasts to thrive and produce a Chianti almost unrecognisable for its voluptuous concentration of fruit.
But at the same time you had these fantastic, voluptuous women everywhere.
This I made account: I began early, when I understood the study of our laws; but was diverted by leaving that, and embracing the worst voluptuousness, an hydroptic immoderate desire of human learning and languages; beautiful ornaments indeed to men of great fortunes, but mine was grown so low as to need an occupation; which I thought I entered well into, when I subjected myself to such a service as I thought might exercise my poor abilities; and there I stumbled, and fell too; and now I am become so little, or such a nothing, that I am not a subject good enough for one of my own letters. The Life of Dr. Donne. Paras. 1-49
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Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy is a novel of voluptuous digressiveness, scornful of the straight narrative lines it keeps promising to adopt. The Guardian World News
Let there be everywhere heard the rustling of dancers, the loud, immodest laughter of the theatre; let a succession of the most cruel and the most voluptuous pleasures maintain a perpetual excitement.
Sexual excitement is accompanied throughout by a sensation of pleasure, specifically known as _voluptuous pleasure_, the _voluptuous sensation_, or simply _voluptuousness_ (in Latin, _libido sexualis_). The Sexual Life of the Child
he sniffed the perfume voluptuously
A clean-cut chilled gazpacho made an exhilarating appetiser, its sharp tomato edge juxtaposed with a mellow, voluptuous quenelle of crab and avocado.
She told the New York Times, "She's like a Page 3 girl," Neophitou said, referring to the scantily clad voluptuous women featured in the Sun, a London tabloid. Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
She was voluptuous and beautiful and blonde - a very appealing woman.
They are self-described voluptuous babes with full confidence in the sexiness of their forms.
With her long blonde hair, micro-dresses that may incite the prurient to hope for an occasional fleeting glimpse of her underwear and photographs on her book jackets of her in leather dresses, arms akimbo, like a stern but voluptuous school mistress, she is not, as Mr. Moore wrote, “faux glam.” Gamey indeed
He was to be wed to a beautiful voluptuous woman who was fresh, young, and full of life.
Hollywood nymphets cower in the jungle, vainly trying to hide their voluptuousness from James Brown as he looms in the background, poised for another brush with the law.
The dance is set up as wholesome bobby-soxer swing, but Hayworth projects a voluptuous energy that practically burns a hole in the celluloid.
Lawson has carefully crafted her image as a voluptuous food goddess and, let's face it, her cooking is not for the calorie-conscious. Letter: Nigella's burkini
Her perfect voluptuous figure with the right curves in the right places were accentuated by the tight black leather pants and top she was wearing.
The time of hymns to voluptuousness is past; gravity and sadness are now persistent moods. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1916 - Presentation
Doni insists, nonetheless, that Michelangelo's voluptuous simulations of sacred bodies are potentially divine in origin.
They are savoring the complex seasonings, the voluptuous stirrings and siftings, with an enjoyment formerly reserved for novels. American Pie
The items in her paintings are chosen for their visual voluptuousness, as well as their capacity to provide her with instances to showcase her prodigious painting skills.
His dating habits had been filler for gossip writers, who could always fill a hole in their columns with the latest doe-eyed model or voluptuous actress seen on his arm at the cancer ball or Kennedy Center awards. O: A Presidential Novel
But so keen for symmetry, for all the term formal beauty implies, is Chopin, that seldom does his morbidity madden, his voluptuousness poison. Chopin : the Man and His Music
And everywhere that tense and wiry quality of sound, that lack of sympathy with the natural voluptuousness of the cello.
But whether the voluptuous Vanessa undulated up and down the skewwhiff stairs in the middle of the night, was anyone's guess. TICKLED PINK
So Connie played with the child and was amused by its little female dauntlessness, and got a deep voluptuous pleasure out of its soft young warmth. Lady Chatterley's Lover
Her voluptuous face, raised as if at the approach of one she has been waiting for, is lit up under the shade of the flat Woffington hat by the reflected lights from her dress, a quilted rose-colored slip with lace over it, a black lace apron and mantilla, and a sacque of striped blue silk. Archive 2010-04-01
She wasn't tall, she wasn't voluptuous, she wasn't provocative.
Embrace the velvety, voluptuous bouquet, infused with Rose, Jasmine, Lily and Ylang Ylang, warmed by golden woods and Vanilla.
It has a mild, soft, voluptuous flavour and creamy but springy texture. Food Watch
The backless gown was flattering; she was not a very voluptuous woman, but she was certainly not shapeless either.
Like the film, the play follows the misfortunes of the Ekdahl family—in particular siblings Fanny and Alexander, who are forced to leave the splendor and voluptuousness of their happy family home after their father dies following a stroke suffered while playing Hamlet's ghost on stage. Bergman's Masks and Mirrors
Hedonistic, self-indulgent, voluptuous societies succumb to their enemies and go under.
The high street is packed full of bright stripes that should not be avoided just because you have a more voluptuous shape. The Sun
She was a tall voluptuous-looking woman of what is called a Junoesque type — decidedly plump, with firm white hands and well-formed feet. Madame Midas
Madame could not have chosen better foils for her own voluptuous style than the three women, all angles -- looking as she always did, as though she had been visiting Vulcan, and feeding on the red-hot coals beneath his hammer, while quenching her thirst from a cantharus given her by the hand of Bacchus himself. A Heart-Song of To-day
It is a voluptuousness only the novel knows, and the elusive grail we poor scribblers helplessly chase. An Interview With Cynthia Ozick
I married a voluptuous woman. The Sun
Her long legs and voluptuous body attracted all the guys in her school.
Six extraordinarily voluptuous young women were attending him, rubbing oils into his skin, polishing his fingernails, even grooming his privates, which were supremely unaroused. Split Infinity
They could now portray the Pharaoh and the voluptuous Nefertiti (who may have shared the throne with him) in a far more casual, realistic way.
When dissoluteness is condemned, it is so in natural and undisguised terms, but such are never used to stimulate voluptuousness or pleasantry. A Philosophical Dictionary
He rebukes himself for his abandonment to 'the worst voluptuousness, which is an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages.' Figures of Several Centuries
And the contemporary focus includes some seductive objects that resonate with earlier pieces, such as a voluptuously curved jar of glistening micaceous clay by Lonnie Vigil of the Nambe Pueblo, displayed near a superb assortment of more traditional Pueblo pottery. Shows That Defy Stereotypes
She wasn't very tall and looking at her voluptuous body and curvy figure I definitely would have guessed her to be older then a high school student.
The effect of the treatment appeared at once in soft, voluptuous sighs of relief, deep and long-drawn; in the magnetic showers of the body I recognised a sure token which that mysterious disorder in the veins, lymphs, and nerves reveals in the ganglia. Dr. Dumany's Wife
We've been married 35 years, and I'm not saying he's not human, and I'm not stupid enough to think he's never "undressed" a voluptuous little lollypop with his eyes, but I'm seriously insecure and it's not fair, that at our age, he looks like a mature, gracefully aging Clark Kent and I look like an old Peppermint Patty. Pat Gallagher: Post-50 One-Night Stands: Don't Try This at Home!
At that time many artists in Indonesia still painted pretty pictures of volcanoes and voluptuous women.
You don't have to have the so-called ‘perfect’ body to be voluptuous and sexy.
She was a tall voluptuous-looking woman of what is called a Junoesque type -- decidedly plump, with firm white hands and well-formed feet. Madame Midas
The voluptuous frame is slender enough to weave through city congestion and it's lively enough to propel you to the hole shot at the traffic lights. The Sun
In the rose garden was an arbour smothered in riotous bloom, and in the arbour was a divan, wide and low and voluptuously soft, meet for the repose of an invalid on a languorous afternoon, or indeed any other time. The Definite Object A Romance of New York
Largely because of such enterprises, American entertainment had become a “welter of sensuousness” and “voluptuous abandonment.” A Renegade History of the United States
Then you made mummy, who is already shapely, even more luscious and voluptuous and reubensesque.
I'm up for any of these dishes -- or for her voluptuous eggplant parmigiana -- next time Lidia plans to spend an afternoon at the stove. Rozanne Gold: Lidia's Italy in America
The Moon in Pisces refers to a voluptuous and sensual nature and is often cited as indicating numerous attachments.
He lifted her by the waist, her curves full and voluptuous as he edged her towards the bed.
Of the many women I have known, she was, perhaps, the least beautiful - less graceful than her I have loved most, less voluptuous than another, less reginal far than Thecla. The Shadow of the Torturer
A voluptuous black girl in leather and a thicket of beaded dreadlocks jumped in front of him and mirrored his strokes, his bumps and grinds.
If ever Balanchine had re-choreographed the full four-act "Swan Lake," I'd like to imagine he'd have made the scene for the antiheroine Odile like this: voluptuous, intoxicating, with the ballerina leading a female throng whose energies all grow increasingly wild around the bewildered but overwhelmed hero. NYT > Home Page
In the Old Testament the incubus was viewed as a voluptuous being eager to mate with women.
We often describe the sensuality of cuisine as luscious, voluptuous, decadently indulgent, luxurious, hedonistic.
I could only see her from behind but her long, glorious, thick, voluptuous wavy chevelure was enough for me to ostensibly distract my eyes from the enfolding spicy lingerie runway show and sinful striptease session. Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News
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Beneath this window is a broad divan, and here, laved in tepid sea winds and soothed by rippling whispers against the ship's side, I sleep – the langorous, voluptuous sleep of the tropics; ... sink softly into that dim warm flood where one lies drenched, submerged in unconsciousness; a flood that ebbs slowly, slowly – bearing with it all fatigue and satiety – and leaves me on the shores of life again in a pale lilac dusk glimmering with great stars .... In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
Every true icon of the last couple of centuries has smoked, from voluptuous fifties film stars to odd-looking French philosophers.
But what's with the garish red walls of the underpass and the ridiculously clingy dress hugging Alex's voluptuous frame?
The music, pulsating throughout like a tone poem and the voluptuous costuming render Cracks complexly delectable. Melody Breyer-Grell: Cracks is Girls Gone Wild ala The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (in a Good Way)
This explains the fact that in the child both the peripheral voluptuous sensation, and also the voluptuous acme and the sense of satisfaction, are more frequently independent of the processes of contrectation than is the case in the adult Gradually the two groups of processes become associated with one another; and, as we have learned, this association frequently occurs even in childhood. The Sexual Life of the Child
It is a visual and sensory pleasure, choked with dazzling flowers of every variety, from the voluptuous deep blue of the jacaranda tree, to the multi-coloured bougainvillea or the bountiful hibiscus and begonias.
Plus, having hundreds of voluptuous women on their side would make it easy to recruit more men.
I married a voluptuous woman. The Sun
In La Belle Rafaela, 1927, de Lempicka provocatively posed a Parisian prostitute in a close-up image as voluptuous female odalisque or reclining nude.
It has a mild, soft, voluptuous flavour and creamy but springy texture. Food Watch
With these voluptuous gifts have come difficult, troubled lives.
A legend for voluptuousness almost from the time filming began on "The Outlaw," the Howard Hughes production that marked her movie debut, Ms. Russell made many other well-remembered movies, had a productive singing career and remained active in the entertainment world to the end of her life. Jane Russell, film siren who sizzled on-screen in 'The Outlaw,' dies at 89
She had a 40s voluptuousness that fit the role perfectly.
The fitted and shaped waist styling really suits hour glass figures and can only be welcomed by women who are not stick thin and have voluptuous curves to show.
She smiled and slipped out of her clothes, stretching her white voluptuous body out on the bed. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
He sketched out a body for a 1930 Mercedes-Benz SSK with a stretched, slender front end, voluptuous coachwork, and a graceful tail, resembling the fanning train of an evening gown.
Shortly after collapsing into the voluptuous embrace of a velveteen sofa, your body may shut itself down and try to enter a coma.
Rimsky-Korsakov's phenomenal skill as an orchestral colourist shines out nowhere better than in the voluptuous, Arabian Nights-inspired Scheherazade, an all-time concert favourite and one that has charmed thousands of pairs of innocent ears into the earthly delights of classical music speaking as one ensnared by it early. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Russian Easter Festival Overture – review
He seems to have enjoyed to the full the gay and easy life of a courtier, and sung so voluptuously of love and wine and festivity that the term "Anacreontic" has come to be used to characterize all poetry over - redolent of these themes. General History for Colleges and High Schools
A clean-cut chilled gazpacho made an exhilarating appetiser, its sharp tomato edge juxtaposed with a mellow, voluptuous quenelle of crab and avocado.
The warm tint added to Cytherea's face a voluptuousness which youth and a simple life had not yet allowed to express itself there ordinarily; whilst in the elder lady's face it reduced the customary expression, which might have been called sternness, if not harshness, to grandeur, and warmed her decaying complexion with much of the youthful richness it plainly had once possessed. Desperate Remedies
It is an experience that concerns itself almost exclusively with tone, with the use of darkness and light, the gruffness of man with the voluptuous beauty of woman.
She was naked except for a beplumed helmet, armbands, anklets and a girdle of colored ostrich feathers and she sprawled upon the silken cushions with her limbs thrown about in voluptuous abandon. The Moon of Skulls
Hedonistic, self-indulgent, voluptuous societies succumb to their enemies and go under.
Executed in a mixture of black and white marble, red, orange and brown terracotta and blue and green glass, the mosaics retain their voluptuous, dazzling intensity.
It bulged voluptuously in luscious and supple ripples and folds, and the spruce band gave a pleasant, cedar-like aroma.
Ever since I have studied women, my incognita is the only one whose virginal bosom, whose ardent and voluptuous forms, have realized for me the only woman of my dreams The Thirteen
She is hopelessly indentured to her wicked stepmother who treats her like a voluptuous doormat.
I believe, however, that this voluptuous acme is, at any rate in children, much less common than the equable voluptuous sensation which can be aroused by all kinds of manipulations and stimulations of the peripheral genital organs, and more especially of the glans, the penis, the clitoris, and the labia minora. The Sexual Life of the Child
His co-star is a voluptuous, dark-haired young woman with cinnamon skin wearing a negligee.
She smiled and slipped out of her clothes, stretching her white voluptuous body out on the bed. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
Let's face it: size 10 isn't exactly huge, and I have lots of guys that appreciate my toned and curvy and voluptuous figure.
I found besides, that his maxims were very good for him, but felt that I had no use for them; I needed another kind of voluptuousness, of which he had no idea, and of which I not even dared speak, as I was sure, he would only make fun of me. The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Days of delicious dreaming were these, -- days of roaming on the emerald green turf under the stately and odorous pines, listening to the dash of the waterfalls, or watching the crimson sunset burning redly through the darkness of the branches, -- and in the moonlit evenings sitting under the trees to hear the entrancing music of a Hungarian string-band, which played divine and voluptuous melodies of the land, -- "lieder" and Thelma
It is partly in reaction to this trend that my friend and I are now celebrating the return of the voluptuous female.
It is true that нега has two distinct nuances: voluptuous languor and simple enjoyment; but, instead of using any of the obvious equivalents, Mr. Nabokov has dug up from the dictionary the rare and obsolete mollitude, a word which his readers can never have encountered but which he uses for the first of these meanings; and for the second he has discovered dulcitude. The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
One seems to see him, a languid-limbed "revenant," with heavy-lidded drowsy eyes and voluptuous lips, emerging all swathed and wrapped in costly cerements out of the tomb of some Babylonian king. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
The interest of 6,000 pounds invested in the Bank of England was flocci nauci to the voluptuous spendthrift, Gabriel Varney. Lucretia — Complete
It has a mild, soft, voluptuous flavour and creamy but springy texture. Food Watch
To satisfy this genus of men, women are made systematically voluptuous, and though they may not all carry their libertinism to the same height, yet this heartless intercourse with the sex, which they allow themselves, depraves both sexes, because the taste of men is vitiated; and women, of all classes, naturally square their behaviour to gratify the taste by which they obtain pleasure and power. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The stranded strings and low winds arrived by Act 2 but in the meantime, conductor Peter Mark and his reduced forces offered a clarity of texture and prominence of inner voices that almost made up for the loss of voluptuousness that the full group mustered. Performing Arts: Kelli O'Hara lights up the Kennedy Center
He played the old Irish air so simply and tunably that Rolfe leaned back in his chair, with half closed eyes, in soft voluptuous ecstasy. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day
Your backyard becomes voluptuous with pomegranate and almond trees, lemon groves, and hedges of flowering cactus, dazzling banks of azaleas, marble - basined fountains, in which chestnut-and-white pond-herons step daintily amid exotic water-lilies, while golden pheasants strut about on alabaster terraces. The Toys of Peace, and other papers
The organic version available from Mustapha's adds a voluptuousness to salads and soups $39, mustaphas.com . Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut Oil
The Chinese-style dresses, skirts and tops come in shimmering silk and voluptuous velvet from his suppliers in China.

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