...they seem embarrassed by their own stupid beauty./Erect, with those decorous irridescent [sic] rings/around their throats and e...yes,/theirs is the plump strut of royalty/parading dutifully among the poor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all th...e ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And to your more bewitching, see the proud, Plump bed bear up, and swelling like a cloud,... Tempting the two too modest; can Ye see it brustle like a swan, And you be cold To meet it when it woos and seems to fold The arms to hug you? Throw, throw Yourselves into the mighty overflow Of that white pride, and drown The night with you in floods of down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hail, hail, plump paunch, O the founder of taste For fresh meats, or powdered, or pickle, or paste;... Devourer of broiled, baked, roasted or sod, And emptier of cups, be they even or odd; All which have now made thee so wide i' the waist As scarce with no pudding thou art to be laced; But eating and drinking until thou dost nod, Thou break'st all thy girdles, and break'st forth a god.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow... dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: MIntroibo ad altare Dei.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose--selling--that it operates without tha...t painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise. We almost never think of calling a television show "beautiful," or even of complaining about the absence of beauty, because we take it for granted that television operates without beauty. When we see on the television photographic records of the past, like pictures of Scott's Antarctic expedition or those series on the First World War, they seem almost too strong for the box, too pure for it. The past has a terror and fascination and a beauty beyond almost anything else. We are looking at the dead, and they move and grin and wave at us; it's an almost unbearable experience. When our wonder or our grief are interrupted or followed by a commercial, we want to destroy the ugly box. Old movies don't tear us apart like that. They do something else, which we can take more of and take more easily; they give us a sense of the passage of life. Here is Elizabeth Taylor as a plump matron and here, an hour later, as an exquisite child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the plump of my belly, the hollow of your... groin, as a constellation, how it leans from earth to dawn in a gesture of play....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had a broad face and a little round belly, That shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.... He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »