How To Use Lavishly In A Sentence

This gorgeous, homemade tiki fireplace complete with smoking nostrils is lavishly documented in this build log. Boing Boing: February 12, 2006 - February 18, 2006 Archives
Each image in this lavishly illustrated book is accompanied by a detailed explanation.
The Toronto art-rockers have a tendency to go for the extreme, whether it is a lavishly orchestrated children's record or a rock opus telling the story of the Group
Oh! -- to the really 'consecrate' in heart and thought I could give my life so easily, so slavishly even! Marcella
We should listen to expert advice, but to slavishly follow it on every occasion defies logic.

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Everything else in the novel slavishly follows a simple formulaic adventure plot.
Several meals out have been lavishly enjoyed by the couple and their family at this stage!
It was lavishly furnished, and behind its wide oak desk, sat a burly and stout man.
We followed her through a series of large, lavishly furbished rooms that each put my entire house to shame.
In their place are lavishly appointed, spacious and airy new ships. Times, Sunday Times
Neither his friend's pathetic loneliness, nor the inducements he so lavishly offered, would have tempted Gerrard to leave the capital had it not been that he had ascertained from the Nawab that the _jaghir_ which he had granted to Rukn-ud-din as the Rani's representative lay in the direction in which Charteris was now to be found. The Path to Honour
lavishly decorated
His text is full of redundant capital letters and is lavishly verbose.
As on the fish serving fork, the terminal of the fork is formed by a thick quahog clamshell with a tiny crab on it, and the stem is lavishly encrusted with marine elements.
Either the valorization of accumulation, profit, and the subjection of human beings to mechanistic systems will wind down into the sort of dystopia so widely and lavishly depicted to scare us witless; or we will awaken from our trance, take a deep breath to dispel the catecholamines, use our big neocortices to recognize that we still possess the resources, intelligence and skill to enact a redemptive vision—and then do it. Annals of The Culture of Politics: Tea and Empathy
We know from grim experience that footballers slavishly follow the lead of their manager.
his followers slavishly believed in his new diet
The sets were lavishly grungy: all rusting metalwork, peeling plaster and torn posters.
Not as lavishly talented as Coulter, the bullish midfielder ran himself into the ground with an aggressive never-say-die 60 minutes.
As always, the booklet is lavishly produced. Times, Sunday Times
The Fatherland Party was lavishly financed by Rhineland industrialists, but it was no mere front for the ruling classes.
It is lavishly furnished with outstanding collections such as Chinese porcelain and Renaissance paintings.
Extra daughters were sent off to live in respectable refinement at convents, so that the family would not have to dower them as lavishly and divide the family patrimony.
At a time when much of his work was slavishly adulated, they caught his eye and appealed to his own sense of independence. Fanzine The End anthology is Liverpool's best-selling Christmas book
Along with the industrialists and merchants of Glasgow and Edinburgh, they assembled in Edinburgh dressed lavishly in tartan, wearing kilts, singing Robert Burns songs.
That his endless permutations jar the sensibilities of lavishly paid footballers is hardly in itself a cause for complaint. Times, Sunday Times
The people on both sides who slavishly follow the ideology WITHOUT remembering the humanity of those who believe differently only succeed in dehumanizing their opponants. Nancy Reagan illuminates Kennedy-Reagan friendship
I scattered my gold lavishly, nor did I chaffer over prices in mart or exchange. The Dignity of Dollars
As usual they were lavishly equipped, bristling with the latest electronic gear, and kept in immaculate condition.
The handsome, lavishly illustrated catalogue costs ￡19.95 in hardback and ￡12.95 in paperback.
CoffeeGeek: what you'd expect, a nanopublishing venture slavishly devoted to discussing the minutae of the bean in mind-numbing, exuberant detail. Boing Boing: May 11, 2003 - May 17, 2003 Archives
Was this the MSM, craven as ever, slavishly following the lead of the artistocracy - those who decide which frauds and daubs, which slabs of self-obsessed upper-middle-class logorrhea - constitute Art and Literature? Tony Hendra: George Carlin: The Last Words You Can't Say on Television
Oddly, there's a sense that some current contenders are simply slavishly imitating their post-punk forebears.
Grilled sturgeon is lavishly drenched in black vinegar and eggplant.
Though lavishly illustrated, the photos are marred in many cases by inaccurate captions or even moiré patterns that any skilled scanner operator could have avoided.
All this time I was slavishly imitating a TV character and she thought I was a fashion trendsetter (albeit a disastrously failed one).
Lavishly rendered scenes can overcome a lot of obstacles, but nothing can distract us from the non-existence of a coherent story.
Do not slavishly adhere to traditional scale and arpeggio fingerings, especially in repertoire written after the mid-nineteenth century.
We should listen to expert advice, but to slavishly follow it on every occasion defies logic.
Maybe it's the juxtaposition of gobby punk attitude alongside such a slavishly swotty excavation of rock'n'roll mythology that attracted attention.
Shadow Skill slavishly follows the rules of the fighting anime genre as if it expects a test later.
He lived lavishly in exile. Times, Sunday Times
Smear the inside lavishly with butter. Times, Sunday Times
Smear the inside lavishly with butter. Times, Sunday Times
The result also reveals that kids from more well-off families tend to spend their money lavishly while those whose parents are unemployed are more thrifty.
That's a place for films that rewrite genre conventions, rather than slavishly tick them off. Times, Sunday Times
Now, thanks to a slavishly Bush-poodling Labour government with a startlingly authoritarian bent, Britons are beginning to recognize that this sceptred isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, this other Eden is about to become this surveillance state, this database depot, this green and pleasant centre of preventive detention, this precious home of biometrically-keyed national identification cards set in a sea of CCTV cameras. Jamie Malanowski: Bringing Freedom to Great Britain
She finally settled on a pale blue blouse lavishly embellished with cutwork embroidery, and a long, navy skirt, worn with three-inch DKNY heels.
Phil Harris, a lavishly tattooed, chain-smoking, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, veteran crabber with a big heart, suffered a stroke aboard the Cornelia Marie while in port. Rev. James Martin, S.J.: They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships: The Death of Capt. Phil Harris
No lavishly expensive expert panels were held in total consensus about how necessary icemen were for the entire economy. Notable & Quotable
Dark Horse releases Okimono Kimoni, written and illustrated by Mokona with assistance from the rest of CLAMP. “a fun and lavishly illustrated book full of drawings and illustrations, interviews (including an interview with Ami of the J-pop duo Puffy AmiYumi!), and even short manga stories from the CLAMP artists.” 12 « November « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
She consumed lavishly herself, showered expensive gifts on her dealers, and promoted Tupperware as part of an affluent suburban lifestyle.
Its doors opened last year in a house dating from the 1920s, with decor that is reminiscent of the times to which its name refers, in a way that is retro without being self-consciously or slavishly repro.
She entertained lavishly for her husband at Mentmore, at Landsdowne House and at the London home in Berkeley Square which Rosebery bought in 1885. Rothschild, Hannah de, Countess of Rosebery.
Although he did not invent the technique of lavishly veneering furniture with marquetry of exotic tortoiseshell, pewter and brass and variously coloured woods which is named after him, he was, without doubt, its greatest exponent.
Only in 1950s movies are the rooms lavishly painted and upholstered, spacious and crammed with flowers.
Besides discussing foraging, the book is a lavishly illustrated tour of cutting-edge wild cuisines, from Mateo's roasted veal chop with morel and cacao sauce to a cuitlacoche and squash blossom quesadilla, using the corn smut that Mexican cuisine honors and Midwestern farmers abhor. Food foragers find fun and cash amid the wild fungi
When this lavishly illustrated volume was first published in 1971, it was highly praised.
She was a silky, martinet of a woman when it came to her money, which she would gladly take in and spend only the amount to feed and clothe the ones who worked under her and furnish the house as lavishly as was needed.
His feature-length art films, lavishly shot and propped and edited, veer from images of a classic-car demolition derby in the Chrysler Building, to a gorgeous amputee slicing potatoes with her knife-edged prostheses, to melted Vaseline pouring down a chute at the Guggenheim Museum. Movies: Matthew Barney's 'Cremaster Cycle' comes to E Street Cinema
The chateau was a frame structure of twenty-eight rooms, lavishly furnished with Oriental rugs and imported Sheraton furniture. THE AMERICAN WEST
To escape his aesthetic dilemma, Ambrose must find a form that neither repudiates the past nor slavishly imitates it.
A fantastic range of modern and traditional architecture, with the modern architecture being sympathetic to the traditional, while not slavishly emulating it.
Artists cannot use photographs too slavishly, however, because the shadow on a sail in one photograph may be out of sync with the light source in the painting, the action on the water inconsonant with the direction of the wind. Daniel Grant: Artwork That Is Judged on the Basis of Accuracy
He lived lavishly in exile. Times, Sunday Times
Profuse with cobbled streets, the steeply pitched roofs, prominent cross gables with the structures lavishly covered with ornamental half-timbering, this part of town gave her an archaic feeling.
With the discovery that rose water could flavour food, the Arabs began to use it lavishly in their dishes.
Printed on glossy paper and lavishly illustrated with photographs and artists' drawings, it cost no less than 50 shillings when published.
He went on spending lavishly until his money was at the end.
Guests were treated to a magnificent buffet lunch, most lavishly set up in a huge white air-conditioned tent.
And that is the reason why in the things nearest our hearts we praise so little and criticise so lavishly.
Fully realized blossoms -- blatant and blowzy, lavishly colored and shamelessly, intoxicatingly scented like the blooming sexual organs that they are. Donna Henes: Summer Fevers
I could have lived without Annie Sullivan's writhing and lavishly bruised and sore-pocked young brother dying noisily in her arms in the middle of the second act, but I'm sure she could have, too. The Miracle Worker
Entertaining in style needn't mean spending lavishly.
That's a place for films that rewrite genre conventions, rather than slavishly tick them off. Times, Sunday Times
Critics in Britain appear to be having an ongoing contest to see who can offer this writer the most lavishly fulsome praise.
Though uneven and a bit inchoate, it shows an awareness both of the more complex, radical aspects of Debussy and the Strauss of Salome and Elektra, without being slavishly imitative of either.
You don't need to stick slavishly to the recipe.
The kindness which the lame ropedancer showed to the fragile child was lavishly returned to her by a thousand proofs of the warmest attachment. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
Katrina had already dug her way through the table and was lavishly plundering the scrumptious food before us.
A black feather boa, perhaps bought for the Black Ascot, curved lavishly round to cancel any suggestion of nakedness.
The real news, however, is that Imelda Marcos - sometimes accused in the plot to assassinate Ninoy, and as lavishly pompadoured and aggressively fluttering as ever - also won her race for Congress. Phil Bronstein: Ninoy, Noynoy, No-No.
Not slavishly or fanatically (as a compulsive overeater with a daily reprieve, I don't do well with fads and tangents). Victoria Moran: Veg and the City: The Life Changing Effects of a Raw Food Diet
It did not classify plants in quite the most slavishly simple manner.
Add the juice from half the lemon and season lavishly with nutmeg. Times, Sunday Times
The best novels always say something other than what they appear to say; they speak most eloquently from the side of the mouth; they are cunning, double-dealing, and lavishly deceptive.
Lavishly butter a 23cm flan tin with a removeable base. Times, Sunday Times
We acknowledge the glamour and modernity of eating and drinking in American cities by slavishly imitating them in ours.
He, Grey, O'Hara, Harris and O'Hara's work friends (who had there and then agreed to join the Party) were in Unsuri's lavishly accoutred inner-city apartment.
It's The Irish Today and it's a massive tome, lavishly produced and a great celebration of Ireland and our people.
The studio is lavishly kitted out with camera equipment.
By night the city becomes a lavishly evocative backdrop to leisurely trawls round its restaurants, clubs and bars.
Like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the South American writer with whom she is being lavishly compared by her rather over-enthusiastic publishers, Enright is interested in the fictionality of history.
She couched it in luringly affectionate tones and apologized lavishly for scratching his face when he called. We Can't Have Everything
While we were studying the display, a man, lavishly bearded in the Darwinian style, said g'day.
A combination of impeccable service, lavishly decorated public rooms and fine cuisine make the St. Francis a landmark in itself.
During the war and afterward, Jewish leaders lavishly praised the wartime pontiff.
Whereas in previous paintings she featured lavishly-painted structural elements of defunct worlds, in her new work Gualdoni sheds the nostalgic architectural references and authoritative facture to find meaning in the process itself. Sharon L. Butler: NYC Gallery Visit: Angelina Gualdoni at Asya Geisberg
With the discovery that rose water could flavour food, the Arabs began to use it lavishly in their dishes.
The results are a stunning mix of surprisingly wearable garments that develop, rather than slavishly follow, current trends.
My publishers are farting around at the moment but they will bring it out in a kind of lavishly tooled arty-farty volume.
It's now a lavishly refurbished and rather expensive gastropub.
It's a classic showstopper: dramatic, lavishly orchestrated, and catastrophically over-the-top.
Juditha" is filled with beguiling music very lushly orchestrated and filled with exotic Baroque instruments that have ceased to be used in modern orchestras, like the chalumeau sounds like a cross between a flute and a clarinet or the lavishly strung theorbo, giving the score an exotic sound always filled with Vivaldi's sensuous, graceful lyricism. DesignerBlog
The framers of the American Constitution believed that under a system of direct election the president would become slavishly responsive to popular passions.
While Today was obviously the industry standard, the editors didn't slavishly follow its format or style.
For all that, the 11 lavishly gifted "stars", plus actor Paul McGann reading out the instruments and adding a certain low-key sensuality to the word "glockenspiel", were a revelation. Evening Standard - Home
He has created a lavishly stunning, sweeping story of the little wooden doll's many adventures on the road to boyhood.
The room was lavishly decorated with tinsel and holly.
In explaining the term ward heeler, you described a heeler as “derived from a dog that a master brings to heel,” used to describe “a minor politician who slavishly followed his ward leader.” No Uncertain Terms
These great artists, so dissimilar in the outward aspects of their creations, agree in considering that the only way of advancement open to the aspirant is the attempt to form himself on the example of others, by imitating them not slavishly or mechanically, but in the same spirit in which they imitated their forerunners: even as the Albert Durer
Cream voile has been lavishly draped around the metal four- poster bedstead to make an attractive centrepiece.
You uncultured rubes probably think that having a vast army of servants slavishly waiting on you hand and foot is some great luxury.
The lowest cylindrical section was the most lavishly decorated, with a wide turquoise-glazed epigraphic band set between geometric medallions and palmette motifs.
A lavishly illustrated 18th century book of medicinal herbs has been digitised and animated by the British Library.
Local hospitals and drugstores selling traditional Chinese medicines are pleased to see people spend their money lavishly on the expensive paste.
The lavishly hand-stitched electric front seats are like easing into your favourite armchair. The Sun
I'm uncertain whether the Millennium Dome is a smart thing to have on one's CV, but I see it as a stepping stone to Ensign Ewart, my fully horsed spectacular, soon to be lavishly mounted at Covent Garden.
There are also slavishly deferential entries on various historians and political scientists.
They lavishly on fresh meat, while I am forced to eat dry cereal.
You may as well slavishly follow skateboarding trends. Times, Sunday Times
This is bathing as entertainment; the bathing area is lavishly decorated and contains numerous pools featuring water of various temperatures and mineral content.
I scattered my gold lavishly, nor did I chaffer over prices in mart or exchange. The Dignity of Dollars
boomer" of Oklahoma exploits and spends lavishly because of a sublime confidence in the illimitability of the resources of nature and in the resourcefulness of the coming generations. The French in the Heart of America
While we were studying the display, a man, lavishly bearded in the Darwinian style, said g'day.
Lavishly renovated, the three-story cylinder is now the Canopy Tower hotel, a mecca for serious birders. Strange Paradise
The dining room was lavishly decorated.
The lavishly hand-stitched electric front seats are like easing into your favourite armchair. The Sun
Steeped in culture, hazy summer-weight cottons and shantung silk in luxurious shades of spice, henna and amber are embroidered and lavishly decorated.
We should listen to expert advice, but to slavishly follow it on every occasion defies logic.
As I wrote in Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, "what makes a cult cultish is not so much what it espouses, but how much authority its leaders grant themselves -- and how slavishly devoted to them its followers are. Cult scene: New Zealand and Africa - Boing Boing
They also slavishly accepted the amnesty that Pinochet and his generals had granted themselves to avoid trial for their crimes against humanity.
The drawing rooms are splendidly accoutred, the 19 bedrooms individually designed and lavishly furnished and its restaurant is, simply, second to none.
The problem is compounded by the fact that pretty much all orthodox religious establishments tend to be well organised, lavishly funded, and take a robust line against dissenters and apostates.
We throw billions at banks and the rich, spend lavishly on weapons to kill people, giving the military and its lobbyists an orgy of affluence in wars we can't afford, but can't insure nearly a third of our citizens, can't manage a policy to keep people from foreclosures due to policies that allow banks to pigout on bailouts ... John O'Kane: Freed Empire
As the wife of the president, Mary spent lavishly and entertained on the scale of a royal consort.
He too pronounces ex cathedra upon the characters of his contemporaries; and though he scruples not to deal out praise, even lavishly, to the lowest reptile in Grubstreet who will either flatter him in private, or mount the public rostrum as his panegyrist, he damns all the other writers of the age, with the utmost insolence and rancour — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
The one upside to the fact that we no longer have any real leaders, only ersatz ones slavishly addicted to following public opinion, is that at the end of the day, public outrage really matters.
He argues that a ruler who wishes to avoid a reputation for parsimony will find that he needs to spend lavishly and ostentatiously.
Nor that so many New Labour ministers moved effortlessly from government to work for the same companies their own privatisation efforts had so lavishly featherbedded. The corporate grip on public life is a threat to democracy
Season lavishly with salt and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Times, Sunday Times
The trio came to a polite halt as a stately brown rat lavishly assimilated went ambling across their path: given the power of speech, this rat would have grunted out a perfunctory buona sera. 'The Pregnant Widow'
The word "supplement" in v5 is the Greek word επιχορηγησατε, which describes one who gives lavishly and generously. Possessing the Treasure
Eighteen candles, plus one to grow on, on a pink-and-white princess cake, decorated lavishly with fake jewels and mini crowns.
I was shown into one of these and curtly introduced to the masseur, a man lavishly oiling his hands over a masseur's bench.
The bedrooms are lavishly upholstered, and the basement ones get a surprising amount of light. Times, Sunday Times
Then, prior to roasting, they're lavishly glazed with pure honey.
The male and female lavatories on each floor are lavishly treated, with stainless steel basins, marble floors and dramatic lighting.
Although opener ‘Pressure Drop’ begins with a hint of sparky, Sea and Cake-style discordance, it blooms into a gloriously euphonic chorus of ringing guitars and viola swoops spread lavishly with Archer's bedhead vocals.
Season lavishly with salt and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Times, Sunday Times
A large oil painting of the chatelaine hangs in the dining room, overlooking a lavishly laid table.
The room had three beds set in a row, the last next to a lavishly curtained window with a breathtaking view of the buildings and roads below.
There is evidence of the sheer silk called ‘tiffany’ often used for women's hoods, and of bone or bobbin lace, forbidden to common people in sumptuary laws, but displayed lavishly on the waistcoats and petticoats of merchant families.
As usual they were lavishly equipped, bristling with the latest electronic gear, and kept in immaculate condition.
He had just discovered Maira Kalman at the library, and he had eight of her lavishly illustrated books in Myra's pack. MORE FROM GINNY BATES: MYRA AND GILLAM
Harris quickly catapults the reader into a world of striking authenticity with an armchair tour of Pompeii as it looked almost 2,000 years ago, including an aristocrat's sumptuous townhouse (the House of the Citharist, named after its statue of a lyre-playing Apollo), a lavishly designed new public baths facility (the Central Baths, uncompleted at the time of the eruption), and a dank two-story lupanar (the largest of at least nine brothels in Pompeii). Love Among the Ruins
The Bradfords always entertained lavishly at Christmas.
Perhaps it was just purple eye-shadow lavishly applied, he decided eventually.
I enjoy the fact that I live in a country where I can bitch about the coffee and find one that slavishly responds to my infantile wheedling and I am infantile about my cuppa jobe. It's the coffee!
Lavishly supportive of his stars, Buss wasn't used to one attacking him personally.
His priceless collection of first editions and lavishly illustrated volumes is expected to attract the attention of book collectors all over the country when it goes under the hammer this week.
I followed the recipe slavishly.
the United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap
You don't need to stick slavishly to the recipe.
The actors were turned out lavishly
Suddenly, all my lavishly packaged concept albums seemed pointless, irrelevant, sterile.
When a political columnist describes a cabinet minister in slavishly adoring terms, shouldn't we be told whether the two are pals?
Yet all its lavishly stylized violence is not enough to compensate for the flaws in the source material.

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