While Twombly was alive and working – and his last paintings of flowers were ripely beautiful – it was possible to see a connection between the art of today and the noble legacy of Greece and Rome as it has been perpetuated by artists such as Raphael and Picasso. ❋ Unknown (2011)
She was old, and her touch held such wisdom that it put babies to sleep, but she was young and rode wildly and she rode fast, or maybe she rode in her own time, ripely ❋ Grey Johnson (2010)
It's obviously empty: how unlike the slim but ripely crammed Morris Louis case she carries in Hitchcock's Rear Window, from which she produces, to tantalise the stricken James Stewart, the flimsiest of nighties and a pair of slippers with peepholes for her curious big toes. ❋ Unknown (2010)
OK, so maybe there's an underlying awful secret -- he participated in aboriginal genocide, or ratted out Reds in Hollywood, or upheld apartheid in South Africa but ... while the camera rolls, the focus of the scenes is the sex and intimacy that occurs in bed and bathtub, between two beautiful bodies, one experienced and dominant, the other ripely pubescent. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He's still Jack's gofer, living on Jack's charity in Jack's house, in agonizing proximity to Jack's ripely beautiful wife, Catherine (Susan Sarandon), an actress a bit past her prime. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Costanza is caught as if unaware, her chemise falling open over a very touchable breast, her eyes staring in shock and desire, her hair in lusty disarray, her ripely curved lips slightly open, revealing a bit of tongue. ❋ David Littlejohn (2008)
She slapped the lad, turned — flashing a ripely rounded breast before she yanked tight the gaping robe — and strode off through the crowd, swearing at anyone who got in her way. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Inside the carriage a pair of bright eyes looked from a ripely handsome face, and though behind those bright eyes was a mind of unfathomed mysteries, beneath them there beat a heart capable of quick extempore warmth — a heart which could, indeed, be passionately and imprudently warm on certain occasions. ❋ Unknown (2006)
(Gee, remember the ripely terrible "Dance of the Vampires"?) ❋ Unknown (2004)
Most distressfully (but, my dear, how successfully!) to wail he did, his locks of a lucan tinge, quickrich, ripely rippling, unfilleted, those lashbetasselled lids on the verge of closing time, whiles ouze of his sidewiseopen mouth the breath of him, evenso languishing as the princeliest treble treacle or lichee chewchow purse could buy. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The stems of mottled and dimpled wood, with twigs coming out like elbows, hung and clung together closely, with a mode of bending in, as children do at some danger; overhead the shrunken leaves quivered and rustled ripely, having many points like stars, and rising and falling delicately, as fingers play sad music. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Brown dusk was ripely settling down among the mossy apple-trees, and the leafless alders of the brook, and the russet and yellow memories of late autumn lingering in the glen, while the peaky little freaks of snow, and the cold sighs of the wind, suggested fireside and comfort. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
At the bottom was an intricate signature done in two colors of ink, followed by a tasteless postscript exulting over how ripely Alyssum was swelling with Sorcor's seed. ❋ Hobb, Robin (2000)
And hated Taina, for that matter, to serve them up so ripely to the witch. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1999)
Dylan Thomas came down to earth in his ripely sensuous stories. ❋ Shattuck, Roger (1992)
The body under his was thin, not at all like the ripely curving barmaid, and he was just beginning to realize that something was horribly wrong when the door burst open and a harsh, angry voice filled the room. ❋ Putney, Mary Jo (1990)
But one wouldn't expect an angel to be so ripely erotic; more likely Madeline had gone in the other direction. ❋ Putney, Mary Jo (1990)
Halfway down the row Cutter saw the ripely curved black woman standing by fire and stirring something in a big iron pot. ❋ Janet Dailey (1985)
And the second day they were deep in open fields where patches of self-sown grain rippled ripely under the sun. ❋ Norton, Andre (1952)
