The recovered poems display the same contrasting voluptuousness and sense of humour.
Calvin likewise warned listeners against the musical dangers of chaos, voluptuousness and effeminacy.
Rembrandt's "Bathsheba Bathing" stops the viewer, not because of the voluptuousness of her naked body, but because your eyes focus on her face rather than her flesh.
The 19th-century European mind was consumed with titillating notions of eastern voluptuousness.
The soul, in the course of its fall through the planetary spheres, was thought to acquire the qualities of the planets: sloth from Saturn, combativeness from Mars, lust for power from Jupiter, voluptuousness from Venus, greed from Mercury.
But Baudelaire's escapism had been of an essentially emotional and sensual kind a vague dream of tropical islands and peaceful landscapes where all would be "luxe, calme et volupté" ("luxury, calm, and voluptuousness").
They symbolized what one modern author called "the peculiar mixture of cruelty and liberalism, barbarity and sophistication, magnificence and voluptuousness, that made up Persian civilization".
Elected censor in 184 to protect Roman mores, Cato vowed "to cut into pieces and burn like a hydra all luxury and voluptuousness".
She blasted her way through the score, and her innate voluptuousness was no bar to turning "As Long As He Needs Me" into the sad valedictory of a (literally) beaten woman.
Ludwig's new photography collection explores where just a few of these cars spend their long evenings Eugène Delacroix was wildly underappreciated in his own lifetime, but now is recognised for his supernatural voluptuousness Was Hilma Af Klint the first abstract artist?
In Sogni di Sogni (1992) and Gli ultimi tre giorni di Fernando Pessoa (1994), published in English as Dreams of Dreams and The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa, Tabucchi wrote: "Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.
