The sensual lusciousness was burned off: age purified him (as it has purified Paul Newman).
Briony has grown into a tall, severe, not quite beautiful young woman (played by Romola Garai, who tamps down her customary lusciousness) with ambitions to be a novelist.
Such lusciousness strikes him as "middle-brow" and "enabling," the side of Keats that the Victorians loved — tendencies that "reinforce rather than resist convention".
In 2009, we were engulfed by the purple-green floricultural lusciousness of "Avatar".
Earthy tarragon fingerling sweet potatoes, slicked with uni and washed down with a musky Spanish sherry, made for a thrilling forest-meets-ocean effect, while the lusciousness of seared foie gras, served with rosemary, caramelized shallots, and salty-sweet black-olive shortbread, was cut perfectly by chilled, sweet Pineau des Charentes.
(Ideally, however, the Summer ballerina needs yet more upper-body lusciousness than the grand Ms. Reichlen brought to it. Mr. Ulbricht's stellar virtues of witty timing and bouncing élan are undercut by his coarseness of line).
But the most breathtaking version of this dish, which has tender meat and all the lusciousness of the fat under the skin, is at the bright and friendly Fu Run, formerly Waterfront International, on Prince Street.
And the sensuous richness of Ms. Rudner's quality of motion makes me feel, as I have often felt over the decades, that there simply is no greater dancer in the world: the bend of her knees, the lusciousness of her feet, the rippling of her spine, the endless variety of her rhythm — these are, even now that she is in her 60s, without equal.
The "Manon" scene shows MacMillan's flair for connecting both the intimate and the sensational in a pas de deux, and at this performance Diana Vishneva, partnered by Jose Manuel Carreño, was lusciousness incarnate.
By now, other classics have followed it into the mists of time, especially if they involve the flaky, labor-intensive lusciousness of a pastry shell.
Tuesday's performance showed me how much of that sense of weight occurs in the foot, using the floor with such lusciousness.
