Do the women, their ripe bodies glowing like lanterns, even exist for the men, except as projections or muses?
Here, Pescheux used bitter orange oil, peppermint oil and immortelle, a flower that gives an astonishing combination of peachy-apricoty fruit, green leaf and ripe human body.
More overtly sexual than the Pre-Raphaelite visions of Edward Burne-Jones, Rossexpressedessed a frank, even shocking sexuality through the ripe-fruit body of his mistress Fanny Cornforth.
Heads pop like ripe grapes, bodies flail as they are sucked into jet engines and arteries spray all over white staircases.
The sculpture of Moore, Gaston Lachaise, and Henri Laurens during the 1920s and '30s included mature, ripe human bodies, erogenic images reminiscent of Hindu sculpture, appearing inflated with breath rather than supported by skeletal armatures.
When we consume a ripe banana, our bodies are better able to break down the sugars quickly, turning them into energy we can use to live our daily lives.
A sweet smell like that of rotten bananas, or of bodies ripe from iniquitous exertion, could pervade an entire age, at which point someone came along to give voice to how messed up things were and, in so doing, made them beautiful again.
The HLA genes Homo sapiens acquired via interbreeding likely helped them survive in a new climate, ripe with viruses their bodies had never encountered before.
In a program note Mr. Botstein cited "a remarkable body of work ripe for rediscovery".
On his second album, 2012's "Put Your Back N 2 It," he sings, above a faintly iterating piano chord, of his body as a "ripe swollen shape"—which is stuffed into the body of a violin, strung up on a fence, and covered in semen.
