Literary notes about Voluptuous (AI summary)
In literature, “voluptuous” is used to evoke a rich tapestry of sensuality, physical abundance, and indulgence, often blurring the lines between beauty and excess. Authors employ the term to describe not only the curvaceous allure of characters and the seductive quality of their features ([1], [2]) but also to imbue scenes with a lush, almost tangible, sensory atmosphere ([3], [4]). At times, it conveys the luxuriant enjoyment of life and physical pleasure, as well as an air of decadent, even political, commentary on the nature of desire ([5], [6]). This multifaceted usage transforms “voluptuous” into a powerful descriptor that captures both the aesthetic and the emotional intensity inherent in the human experience.
- Her lips uttered words of which I could not catch the meaning, but her voluptuous aspect told me of what she dreamt.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - Phidias could not have modelled his Venus on a finer body; her form was rounded and voluptuous, and as white as Parian marble.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - Venus lingers in the west with a voluptuous dazzle unshown hitherto this summer.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - The night was sweet, very clear, sufficiently cool, a voluptuous halfmoon, slightly golden, the space near it of a transparent blue-gray tinge.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - An Oriental thinks that women are by nature peculiarly voluptuous; see the violent abuse of them on this ground in Hindoo writings.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill - “That may be through a defect of temperament, for whenever I see well-painted voluptuous pictures I feel myself on fire.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
