How To Use Lavishness In A Sentence
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He is, to this day, associated with extravagance and regal lavishness.
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It contained an exquisite screen, a French ormolu desk, some elegant chairs and a certain lavishness of porcelain amoretti.
Tied Up in Tinsel
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Next day, the show opens, with many speeches and compliments, and a dinner of faintly embarrassing lavishness.
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Few of the 10,000 foreign couples expected to marry in Italy this year are likely to rival the Agarwal nuptials for lavishness.
In Search of Happily Ever After
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The king commanded a tomb be built for Hephaestion that rivaled any previous memorial in cost and lavishness.
Alexander the Great
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But account director James Wright said that, while pre-GFC "lavishness" was nowhere to be seen in 2010 - and unlikely to make a rapid return - companies were back on the bandwagon for new strategies to retain workers who might be looking at a career change.
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True about UTC revenue, point is that a typical govt contractors modus operandi seems to be to maximize revenue from the customer (the govt) while appearing to cut costs (apparently to support execs lavishness & maybe shareholders).
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Oscars goody-bags are renowned for their lavishness - with up to £60,000 of gifts for nominees and presenters earlier this year.
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Mr. Glegg; his eyes would have watered with true feeling over the sale of a widow's furniture, which a five-pound note from his side pocket would have prevented; but a donation of five pounds to a person "in a small way of life" would have seemed to him a mad kind of lavishness rather than "charity," which had always presented itself to him as a contribution of small aids, not a neutralizing of misfortune.
The Mill on the Floss
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With a huge staircase dominating the stage, and coupled with the outrageous lavishness of the monarchy, this is a truly grand affair.
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I know the super rich and some have worked really hard -- I can think of one billionaire who came from nothing and if his lavishness has been a bit gross, I know his bank account got a good kick recently.
Betsy Perry: It Isn't "Chic" to Cut Back -- It's Crucial
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Confucius said, ‘Lavishness leads to arrogance, frugality leads to shabbiness, but it is better to be shabby than arrogant’.
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Lavishness of decoration, mastery of execution, expansion of palettes with mixed colours are some of the characteristics of Assam's manuscript paintings.
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The long association with Jogis had bred out canine slavishness.
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The effort put in by everyone involved, the scope and the lavishness of the production are evident and can be mistaken for greatness.
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There was no humbug or hypocrisy about Mr. Glegg; his eyes would have watered with true feeling over the sale of a widows furniture, which a five-pound note from his side pocket would have prevented; but a donation of five pounds to a person in a small way of life would have seemed to him a mad kind of lavishness rather than charity, which had always presented itself to him as a contribution of small aids, not a neutralizing of misfortune.
XII. Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home. Book I—Boy and Girl
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Lavishness lives on among the audience members, whose gaudy fashion sense the evening I attended was in stern defiance of Mr. Zapatero's plan de austeridad.
In Madrid, the Party Goes On, Austero Style
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a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness
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Stepping ashore, you see a long line of carriages drawn up in several rows, and of every conceivable variety -- from the Turkish araba to the most coquettish-looking Parisian coupé -- gilded and adorned in a style to make a French lorette stare with amazement at a lavishness of expenditure exceeding her own.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
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It is, rather, a smothering of the soul or a gallows boast, perfervid and florid - an unwitting confession of peewee excesses, of niggling lavishnesses, and of misapprehensions of the phony for the real and the swinish for the good.
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However, not everyone in the community is enamoured by the lavishness of the monument and some describe it as an eyesore.
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And you know the lavishness of the big ranches, then and now.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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Many speak critically of the lavishness of the modern day meals post the breaking of fast iftar, or footor, as it's know in the Gulf.
Global Voices in English » Qatar reflects on spirit, practice of Ramadan
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Higher again, upon a terreplein, are lines of tanks laid out with all that lavishness of labour which distinguishes similar works in Syria: it is, however, difficult to assign any date to these constructions.
The Land of Midian