What's the difference between buxom and curvaceous?

Buxom


Definition:

  • (a.) Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble.
  • (a.) Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are the early "fairy" paintings shown in London in 1841-42 – in a genre then very fashionable in which the fairy folk are of different sizes, from tiny to buxom, and dance and fly in animated crowds among vegetation that dwarfs them.
  • (2) His wishes were fulfilled as the industry prudently moved away from the sombre neo-realism of the immediate postwar years towards mildly saucy comedies and the sub-De Mille-style epics, set in antiquity with their cast of thousands of buxom Roman ladies.
  • (3) Historian Tom Booker says : "Future civilisations will look back at our news websites and think our academics were all skinny, buxom females with borderline lesbian tendencies."
  • (4) Arsène Wenger Raised the temperature by posing for photos in retro Speedos on the beach – then performed a Robin van Persie tribute header and kissed a Brazilian comedy buxom housewife character called Milonga during a game of beach volleyball.
  • (5) Except that he's barely deigning to speak, communicating his thoughts and wishes through buxom Beyonce.
  • (6) The comment piece argues that it "becomes difficult to argue the necessity of honouring 'do not publish' conventions when royals like Prince Harry are photographed cavorting naked in Vegas with buxom women".

Curvaceous


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hugging the other side of the Dora Riparia river in Vanchiglia is Foster + Partners ’ curvaceous new Campus Luigi Einaudi, while to the west in Borgo Dora is performance venue Cortile del Maglio and writing school Scuola Holden .
  • (2) Among other Hepworths on show is Sculpture With Profiles, a curvaceously hewn piece of white alabaster on which eyes and noses have been etched.
  • (3) Conceived as a reaction against the pernicious sprawl of American suburbia, Arcosanti was planned as a dense, car-free development, in which curvaceous organic dwellings were linked by a network of winding footpaths.
  • (4) A curvaceous steel skeleton, draped with a shimmering golden lattice, the Fish was designed using Catia (computer-aided three-dimensional interactive application), which has since become the staple of many architecture practices grappling with complex geometries.
  • (5) When a curvaceous version of the young Princess Merida from Brave was designed for a Disney toy line, another Change petition railed against it , winning the support of the film's director Brenda Chapman – the company backed down from the designs.
  • (6) Female bodies marketed to men – in Nuts or Zoo – are more curvaceous than bodies circulated and admired among young heterosexual women.
  • (7) In the 1950s, Citroën’s DS car came to be known as the Déesse – a goddess of sleek metal and smooth leather, so curvaceously aerodynamic that it seemed, according to Roland Barthes’s description in Mythologies , to have “descended from the sky”, not driven up the highway.
  • (8) She is, as we would expect from a Bond girl, a fantasy figure – curvaceous, unspoiled and, as her name promises, sexually eager.
  • (9) That the curvaceous curtain wall has the simultaneous effect of converging the sun's rays into a magnified beam of heat, capable of melting cars, might be seen to be a fluke byproduct of this architectural flourish, an unfortunate consequence you could never predict.
  • (10) For a young woman struggling with the pressures of perfection – to get good grades, to have a body that manages to be a flawless mix of skinny and curvaceous – it was something of a revelation, and now girls’ schools are getting in on the act.
  • (11) However, this property of limited penetration of electrons poses the problem of self-shielding in the curvaceous human body.
  • (12) The early metro's other leading light was Hector Guimard, one of the creators of Art Nouveau, who designed the curvaceous, cast-iron "dragonfly wing" entrances to scores of the new metro stations.
  • (13) Mad Men's appeal lies not just in its strong acting and witty writing but in its uncanny re-creation of a particular era in American history, a time when men were men, women were curvaceous and the national pastime was proving that you could smoke a cigarette with elan.
  • (14) The curvaceous figure of Joan Holloway has changed modern visions of female beauty.

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