sultriness

Yet there was a sultriness in it that could not be ignored.

The sun came out, increasing the sultriness of the day, while the dead calm still held.

The breeze into which they beat was pleasant after the morning's sultriness.

His blood, it seemed, had been fevered by the sultriness of the summer night.

"The sultriness of this air mass has been noticeable," he added.

He hadn't been able to stand it himself, I guess - the sultriness.

Much of the cast seems to have been selected for its heavy-lidded sultriness.

Sara emerged from the sea and walked toward him with a conscious sultriness.

H. There was a hateful sultriness in the narrow streets.

The mood was an island sultriness combined with New York attitude.

As I surrender to the democratizing sultriness, however, she becomes unspectacular.

This summer's sultriness finally led him to stores all over the Bronx and Manhattan, he said.

There is a damp and oppressive sultriness under the thick, leafy canopy.

Despite the sultriness of the day, she had pulled on a lightweight cloak and tugged the hood low over her head.

Not that spectacle and sultriness exhausted their appeal.

But they also indicated that some of the choreography has a tinge of sultriness.

"The deadly sultriness of these nights," she sighed.

No embellishments are in evidence, and the picture reveals that Monroe, wearing a simple black sweater, came by her sultriness naturally.

The sultriness of the sullenness of these fashion-ad men defeats me.

The piece had a Bejartian sultriness to it, but none of that choreographer's sophistication.

Her men and women went at one another with silky sultriness in "Just One Time."

Her eyes, as she said it, took on a heavy-lidded sultriness - or an unreasonable facsimile thereof.

The sultriness with which they invested some curving, swaying movements implied that this was a dance of the tropics.

There's genuine sultriness in "Liebestraum," but there's also a lot more heat than light.

Although she's playing a stock character, Basinger exudes a sort of chaste sultriness.