Word: luscious
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...seen as a hopeless hick who can't get the hang of English or even much pidgin and is unable to make the cultural struggle into a girdle. She is about to be supplemented by a "parlor wife." Odili, a man of many resources, wants this luscious literate for himself, despite the "bride price" being negotiated for her back home in the village by his patron, the gallant and ever-jovial Chief Nanga. Meanwhile, he attends cultural events, not the least of which is a night of instant integration with the wife of a U.S. information officer...
MAME. Practically everybody has already met Auntie in a book, a movie, and a play, but as impersonated by Angela Lansbury in a musical version, she's the kind of luscious and loony relative who makes reunions...
...ageless advantage of Grant himself, a galloping 62 and perfectly cast as the anything-but-tired tycoon. A sort of magnate cum laude, Grant herein relinquishes his customary Romeo role to play Eros by proxy, and no man could play it better. Instead of making passes at his luscious roommate, Samantha Eggar, he sublets half of his half of her apartment to a lanky Olympic race-walker (Jim Mutton) and starts showing the younger generation how one thing can lead to another...
Perhaps it's just that I'm an incurable Ravel fan. His harmonies include the most luscious, delicious chords in the history of music. His instrumentation is wizardly: the slow buildup from one section of instruments to another in the opening bars of Daphnis puts you, magically, right in the middle of a mythical forest. And his dexterity in creating, and changing, the most emotional of moods affects the glands like nothing after the Baroque...
...central implication of The Hunt is tediously obvious from the opening shot of luscious Ursula Andress ducking bullets: what if a Hunter falls in love with his official Victim? Every hack science-fiction film I've seen since the 50-Foot Woman has provided less predictable dilemmas...