Sentence examples for zaftig figure from inspiring English sources
Carmen's blithe cruelty comes out of love; she's ashamed of her daughter's zaftig figure and whittles away at Ana before the entire world.
Nyro always wrapped her zaftig figure in black, and songs such as Captain for Dark Mornings have a ripe sensuality not heard again until Kate Bush almost a decade later: "If I could, I'd live inside a Gauguin," she told reporters.
The show includes daintily zaftig figures on pedestals as well as disembodied legs that the artist describes as "a little bit sexy, a little bit coy".
Discrimination against zaftig figures is so rampant, it's often openly aired, as in the case of Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel, who commented recently that the singer Adele is "a little too fat".
Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Pittsburgh have released a zany study on the zaftig, positing that men are drawn to hourglass figures not only because they look alluring, but because hips plumped up by omega-3 fatty acids could mean smarter women bearing smarter kids.
In their place is a perspective that looks upon Marilyn Monroe as suspiciously full-figured instead of pleasingly zaftig and insists on an undeviatingly lean aesthetic as the beauty ideal.
She says she was never fat, referring to herself as having been "zaftig", a Jewish word meaning "having a well rounded figure or pleasingly plump". None of her lifestyle choices seem to have taken their toll on her well being.
Take this musical number by Maxie, a zaftig supporting character.
Dan Monahan, "Pee Wee": There's an urban legend that the Porky's set was flooded with zaftig hookers to get the cast in the right frame of mind.
This substantial display of mostly small, mostly female figurative sculptures includes lithe dancers by Degas; a scarily emaciated person by Giacometti; a headless, zaftig goddess by Lachaise; an athletic, contemporary heroine by Robert Graham Elie Nadelmann's bulbous, pink doll-like figure of a woman inspecting her foot; and a big, muddy, Rodinesque bronze by Eric Fischl Johnsonn).
