One sees at once why this fragrant Old World has so dominated the affections and the imaginations of our artists and poets: it is saturated with human qualities; it is unctuous with the ripeness of ages, the very marrowfat of time.
It is produced, he says, from an unctuous matter that transpires through the body[339]; but I am rather inclined to think it proceeds from the extremity.
Numerous similar elaborations betrayed by their banal, unctuouscontents their origin in some tract or other.
Ah, these indefatigable and unctuous fornicators, rolling their eyes piously between orgasms; embroidering noble mottoes on their pleasure towels!
Stretching themselves on their backs and seducing egoists with the unctuous lie of possession.
And then, with her unctuous laugh, "An' ah suttinly does keep dat man busy at hit!
They hurriedly left her before her noble purpose could do so, and Genevieve Maud, left to her own resources, made unctuousmud pies and fed them to her family.
Even as the flame of unctuous things is wont To move upon the outer surface only, So likewise was it there from heel to point.
From off his face he fanned that unctuous air, Waving his left hand oft in front of him, And only with that anguish seemed he weary.
This, it cannot be too much repeated and insisted on, this and no prurience of porcine appetite for rotten apples, no vulgarity of porcine adoration for unctuous wash, is what lies at the root of Blake's sensual doctrine.
Now, the wife of a clever man who had married her for her fortune, she wallowed in unctuous piety, while her husband devoted his energies to the anti-clerical and secular parties.
The only precaution necessary was to allow no mixture of any unctuous materials, which destroyed the efficacy of the soap.
The Carolina tobacco is less unctuous than the Virginian, but in the United States it ranks next to the Maryland.
A SUIT able woman of SUIT able age," that unctuous brother of the cloth had said, in his far from subtle hint.
Once, when he was delivering himself of an unctuous remark to Jerry, Faith broke in rudely with a flat contradiction.
That corpulent old gentleman used to smile with an unctuous scorn over the long letters with which Lady Alice occasionally favoured him.
Beatrix smiled, and looked on the unctuous old gentleman with an indulgent eye, comparatively.
His temperament, like his person, was justunctuous enough to enable him to slip comfortably through life.
Rumors of it stole up to the city, and down came reporters and special correspondents to describe it with an unctuous eloquence and picturesque splendor of style known only to them.
Brother Ware smiled faintly in decorous response, and bowed in silence; but his wife resented theunctuous beaming of content on the other's wide countenance, and could not restrain her tongue.
The animal may break into the preserves of some unctuous hypocrites and trample a few choice flowers of sacerdotal folly; but I opine that no honest man of average intellect will find herein occasion for complaint.
The surface is granulated and black, and there escapes from it an unctuous fetid discharge.
Under these names are commonly included various mixtures of oils and other substances that possess an unctuous appearance.
Olive oil is a nearly inodorous, pale greenish-yellow, unctuous fluid, with a purely oleaginous taste, peculiarly grateful to the palate of those who relish oil.
Plasters are chiefly composed of unctuous substances united to metallic oxides, or to powders, wax, or resin.
Formerly proposed as a substitute for mercurial ointment, but in practice it has been found useless as a friction, owing to the unctuous matter only being absorbed, whilst the oxide is left on the surface.
Sodium sulphovinate crystallises in hexagonal tables, which are slightly unctuous to the touch, and very soluble in water and in alcohol.
The volatile or essential oils are usually more limpid and less unctuous than the fixed oils; but some of them are butyraceous or crystalline.
When greasy matter is present in any considerable quantity, it may also be detected by the suspected sample having an unctuous feel and a disagreeable taste.
These solemn unctuous debates were her detestation, in public even more so than in private.
There was an unctuous satisfaction in this outburst, the exposure of a malicious heart's innermost feelings, an explorer's hallelujah of wildest delight.
One never knows what may happen, dear Captain," says his Eminence to me, with his unctuous Smile.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unctuous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
