The quest for the callipygian ideal. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He rather belabors the point on those occasions when Tom experiences empathy for others an emotion which he describes as feeling sorry for himself while pretending to be someone else, and really, Portman is being more than a little disingenuous when a kid whose vocabulary includes the word 'callipygian' can't put a name to empathy when he experiences it. From Wordnik.com. [King Dork by Frank Portman] Reference
Tiffany, I worship at your altar of callipygian perfection. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
Clearly it is a picture of a callipygian women bending over. From Wordnik.com. [Regretsy – Whitewash] Reference
But after purusing the list, callipygian might be in the running. From Wordnik.com. [No Escape From Words « So Many Books] Reference
Usage: I endure squats and lunges in my effort to reach the callipygian ideal. From Wordnik.com. [Word of the Week #1] Reference
Nice drawing, looks like she's skinnier than my favourite blogger, and quite callipygian. From Wordnik.com. [Oxygen concentrator, I try to go begging (again!), and Seattle!] Reference
Watching me from behind the chicken wire are two callipygian women who are also in orange jumpsuits. From Wordnik.com. [Click Here for Torture] Reference
He also would have admired Swihart's recent paintings: callipygian female nudes, with no traces of visible brushwork. From Wordnik.com. [John Seed: Jon Swihart: Jean-Leon Gerome Is His Master] Reference
“Her gown clung damply to her body, clearly revealing her callipygian curves, and the entire shapely length of her legs.” oneiric. From Wordnik.com. [More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books] Reference
More importantly, is it wrong to hope that my Indian-Ocean sailing medievalist literary critic is also either epicene or callipygian, or maybe even both/and?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
Hey, Rob, I love your far-out "what if -?" scenarios, Naturally, I'd enjoy the tiger getting his tail really twisted, but don't you feel Nancy would make a fine female first fiddle, a commendable, callipygian coryphaeus?. From Wordnik.com. [Will Republicans Find the Courage to Tell Bush and Cheney It Is Time To Go?] Reference
There is a carefully calibrated gross-out factor, often having to do with regurgitation; a certain level of nudity generally involving the backsides of the least callipygian cast members, and a particular quantity of beer-swilling, always by those incapable of holding their liquor. From Wordnik.com. [In 'Hamlet 2,' failure is made fun] Reference
As much as the news may break the hearts of thousands of Democratic men, Obamagirl, in reality, is not the pulchritudinous callipygian who riffs on policy with Akon-esque beats, singing "you're into border security/let's break this border between you and me/universal health care reform/it makes me warm.". From Wordnik.com. [Karen Russell: "I Got A Crush...On Obama!" How Should Campaigns Respond To Voter Generated Content?] Reference
Can I use the word "callipygian" somewhere?. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
(3, 4, 1, 7) 25Of the greatest callipygian charms?. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1] Reference
One is mystified by callypgian (twice), perhaps a misprint for callipygian. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1] Reference
(this is entry number 3 for today. ack!) haiku callipygian -- her: rain, two tears just before they become one drop. From Wordnik.com. [mousepoet Diary Entry] Reference
She was game enough to learn Esperanto and would trap words like butterflies: in Try Anything Twice readers will find sesquipedalian, callipygian, macrocephalous. From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
Or, put another way, Esurient bankers have been impeded and brought to a shuddering halt by the fugacious suffering of negative namastes and their adjuvant, callipygian twittering. From Wordnik.com. [Technology, Science, Entertainment, and Business News] Reference
For to-night at least I intend to cherish a vision of myself marching triumphantly down the years, toasting-fork in hand, in person eupeptic and callipygian, on paper brilliant and profound. From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
I’m most likely to succeed with oneiric and callipygian I think. From Wordnik.com. [More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books] Reference
But now, after flooding the stage with surfeits of estrogen and feminine pulchritude – observed from various angles and callipygian points of view — we’re down to the last ten. From Wordnik.com. [TRUMP PIMPS "MEMORIAL DAY" MISS UNIVERSE! OPRAH SHILLS "THE SECRET." AND CINDY SHEEHAN WEEPS FOR US ALL!] Reference
There is a carefully calibrated gross-out factor, often having to do with regurgitation; a certain level of nudity generally involving the backsides of the least callipygian cast members, and a particular quantity of beer-swilling, always by those incapable of holding their liquor. ". From Wordnik.com. [In 'Hamlet 2,'] Reference
M o u s e p o e t callipygian. From Wordnik.com. [mousepoet Diary Entry] Reference
O - callipygian. From Wordnik.com. [mousepoet Diary Entry] Reference
2001-08-16 - callipygian. From Wordnik.com. [mousepoet Diary Entry] Reference
callipygian - kal-uh-pij-ee-uhn–adjective. From Wordnik.com. [Word of the Week #1] Reference
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