zaftig

• She looked nothing like the zaftig tourist in the Bermuda shorts the previous October. —  Blindfold Game
• The much-produced lithograph portrayed the American State as a fair-haired, zaftig female precariously clad in a diaphanous robe, her alabaster brow garlanded with the "star of empire," gazing westward with an expression of benevolent resolution as terrified Indians are driven in terror before her. —  Pro Libertate
• The Diary of Anne Frank and 1965's A Patch of Blue, and was also nominated for 1972's disaster flick The Poseidon Adventure, in which she played a zaftig, former champion swimmer who strips to her skivvies and plunges underwater to save her fellow passengers. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
• At times she's almost zaftig, other times statuesque, she changes scene to scene, moment to moment, but is always present, accounted for, and -- in one way or another -- ravishing. —  Bright Lights After Dark
• Booming-voiced, zaftig darling - and newly minted Best New Artist 2009 Grammy winner - Adele hits Warehouse Live next week for an already sold-out show. —  Houston Press | Complete Issue

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