(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(6) The comment piece argues that it "becomes difficult to argue the necessity of honouring 'do not publish' conventions when royals like Prince Harry are photographed cavorting naked in Vegas with buxom women".
Voluptuous
Definition:
(a.) Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual.
(a.) Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Summer had had a hard time singing Love To Love You (only when Moroder cleared the studio and dimmed the lights did she finally capture the voluptuous feel she was after), listening to the thing presented an even stiffer test.
(2) We have diligently done this, with one exception: today's star-in-waiting, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, with whom we have been in email contact but were unable to speak to in time for this column.
(3) The Voluptuous Horror ... are purported to be converts to a movement known as "anti-naturalism" and they've got an album bearing that phrase, but they don't sound especially transgressive or perverse, which is fine – just think of their music as a way in, an access point, to an art netherworld so out-there it prompted one onlooker to hail the band's live extravaganza as "an unholy stage show of such immense countercultural gravity that I just want to scream 'Hail Satan' at the top of my lungs".
(4) The interior of the £40m shop, grouped around two voluptuous escalator wells, is the stuff of Vincent Korda's 1936 film Things to Come brought up to date.
(5) A DVD of the first series was spotted next to presidential candidate Barack Obama on his campaign plane, fashion designer Michael Kors has called the drama an inspiration and the catwalks at New York fashion week were filled with the sort of brightly coloured and simply structured dresses that Sterling Cooper's voluptuous office manager Joan Holloway would be eager to wear.
(6) They were not her invention, but they are now identified with her uncompromising, demanding vision and it shapes the way we in our turn see them: seductive, voluptuous, speaking of an uncorseted ease.
(7) In Borgen, Nyborg is shown trying to struggle into a pre-approved black suit, ahead of a debate; she also worries about having been called "voluptuous" in another dress.
(9) Or as ex-Parisian and writer Adam Gopnik puts it in his book Paris to the Moon: "Paris marries both the voluptuous and the restricted.
(10) No one today, least of all myself, can begin to match Tynan’s voluptuous prose.
(11) She begins to sew her shroud from her first chapter, when she copies out the Brontë grave tablet in Haworth church, voluptuously listing those who died of consumption: Charlotte's mother, Maria, her sisters Maria, Elizabeth, Anne and Emily, and her brother Branwell.
(12) Here was architecture as tourist magnet; travel agents offered weekend breaks to Bilbao simply to see Gehry's voluptuous sensation.
(13) I came to know and love them in reverse order: first the incandescent and subtly erotic Gertrud (1964), discovered in my early 20s shortly after it premiered; then the gut-wrenching Ordet (1955), which I initially hated when I first saw it in my teens, misconstruing its climactic miracle as a tool of religious propaganda; and finally the voluptuous and mysterious Day of Wrath (1943), which I didn't appreciate or understand until my 40s, when I finally saw it in a decent 35mm print.
(14) Listening to the voluptuous precision with which he articulated his dream of feasting "on the swelling, unctuous paps of a fat, pregnant sow", it was good to be reminded of the matchless clarity of the Richardson voice which remains one of the great treasures of my theatre-going lifetime.
(15) On Friedrichstrasse: “A bodily dream rising and falling with voluptuous breath then descends upon the street, and everything races, races, races with uncertain step in pursuit of this all-encompassing dream.” 7.
(16) A generation of postwar cinephiles rhapsodised over her earthy voluptuousness, her hourglass figure, her "bedroom eyes", her cascading brunette tresses.
(17) For someone so attracted to the irresistible nature of the horrible – what one commentator labelled "abhorrent sublime" – Kembra's band, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, so-named because one of her favourite movies is the eponymous actor's 1975 film Trilogy of Terror, aren't the uneasy listening experience you might imagine.
(18) She has offered her voluptuous cleavage and fine facial features as a way to glamorise the female labour of feeding family and friends.
(19) He did a production of Cymbeline with Vanessa Redgrave at Stratford that was sort of voluptuous in its lucidity … And his Richard III [with Christopher Plummer and Edith Evans] was very striking.” Vicky Featherstone, the Royal Court’s current artistic director, described Gaskill as a “brilliant, uncompromising theatre director, and a legendary figure as artistic director of the Royal Court in the 1960s.
(20) A voluptuous, young and healthy looking American Eagle model adorned with a bright pink bra and a sparkling smile, several stories high above Times Square in New York City, is asking us to "show your support".