sultriness

1 The uniform, unvarying stream of hot air from a Russian stove vibrated around him with suffocating sultriness, increased by the fragrance of numberless flowers grouped in hot-house fashion in the lofty windows of stained glass.

2 Ms. Thomas seesawed between sultriness and ache in “It’s Raining” and “Ruler of My Heart.”

3 The sultriness of the August afternoon weighs upon the dusty vegetation of the late summer.

4 It was June—but only just June—and the air, balmy and life-giving, knew no suspicion of sultriness.

5 But BAM is devoting a whole series to Southern sultriness onscreen.

6 The funky divas have gone through more changes than we dare try to count, but the ladies haven’t lost any of their signature sultriness.

7 He also captures the sultriness of Wind Gap in unconventional ways, evoking the conflicting sensations of grace and dread in every color-saturated daytime scene and cutting it into its evenings.

8 She looked at him with a sultry glance.

9 Rap-R&B collaborations have been plentiful for almost two decades, but typically it’s a female singer called in to add sultriness to an aggressive song.

10 Beyond her prodigious vocal skills, Ms. Bumbry brought a famous sultriness to her roles, a reputation she put to good use for a 1970 performance of “Salome” at the Royal Opera House in London.

11 The Summer Session—a few dozen boys being force-fed education, a stopgap while most of the masters were away and most of the traditions stored against sultriness—the Summer Session was over.

12 He felt strangely thus alone with her in this sweet-perfumed, melancholy, intoxicating sultriness, alone with this happiness that was so near him, and which he was afraid of frightening away by an unseemly imprudence.

13 “No sleep,” he wrote, “The sultriness pervades the air / And binds the brain.”

14 So Angelina broke down sultriness like any other move — as if it were a jump or a turn — and practiced it with her other choreography in her living room at night.

15 But the sultriness was the breath and atmosphere of her own spirit, and everything beautiful which met her became to her to-day a benumbing poison-flower.

16 The crash and the tremor were succeeded by a sultriness that was almost unbearable.

17 This night, and in one or two following it, the ashy sultriness overhead was hint of some latent storm.

18 The phenomenon of colour was due to the fact that, prompted by the sultriness of the day, Alexander had adopted in his garb a temporary variation of the Highland costume.

19 Augie and Margo kept the sultriness and the elegance and added a stunning dose of athleticism, integrating slides, turns and dizzying spins worthy of a figure skater.

20 “AGENCY” milks the sultriness of amplified strings — here the American Contemporary Music Ensemble — against an electronic backdrop that is, as in “Haunt,” ominously droning and dark.

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