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  • Comforting in a way that tuberose can be sometimes, warmly, envelopingly maternal....a quality you wouldn't expect from such a femme fatale flower.

    Perfume Review: Guerlain Mahora Marina Geigert 2008

  • Comforting in a way that tuberose can be sometimes, warmly, envelopingly maternal....a quality you wouldn't expect from such a femme fatale flower.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Marina Geigert 2008

  • I shrink with bone-chilling horror at the deathly shroud of moribund prose that dangles limply from the author's limblike arms, as he threatens ominously to envelopingly enwrap me in it ... or it in me.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Ann Althouse 2006

  • There was a pillow, a car travelling rug and a clean sheet awaiting me, and although the sofa was a bit short for comfort it was envelopingly soft.

    Twice shy Francis, Dick, 1920- 1981

  • Google has a certain yammering ubiquity for internet searches, but nothing's stopping Mr. Brooker using a less envelopingly full-service search engine; in times of work he could always turn off his internet connection, and nobody is forcing him to compose his scripts on his laptop rather than, say, an exquisite mahogany typewriter. wakeupbomb

    The Daily Mashup 2010

  • There was a positive to the changes: If the string sound was not envelopingly warm, it was toned and firm.

    Kentucky.com: Homepage 2009

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