How To Use Opulence In A Sentence
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If we take her unaffectionate term to mean a kind of stately opulence resulting in cinematic impotence, she has succeeded.
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A generation of consumers accustomed to ripe, sweeter fleshy wines from the new world will be astonished at the sheer opulence of these wines.
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I was wonderstruck when I learnt that the place now known as Silicon Valley once had an opulence of orchards.
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Man cannot live by roughing it alone, which is why the first part of my journey is spent in the five-star opulence of the Tanjung Aru Resort in the state capital, Kota Kinabulu.
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The opulence of the grey and gold dining room is reflected by the food - truffles, lobster, suckling pig, roast turbot and milk-fed lamb all feature.
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And beyond the glitter of opulence, it must also glow with the burnish of remembrance, light up with the luster of nostalgia.
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I have tromped through Roman ruins, ogled ancient frescos at Herculaneum and Pompeii, walked the crumbling streets of Palermo, been awe-struck in Turin and marveled at the opulence of Florentine art.
Rediscovering Italy in a Totally Silent Town
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Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. Doug Larson
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Of course, most people know the world doesn't ooze opulence and happiness in the way social media suggests it does.
Times, Sunday Times
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A city that has as much opulence as it does feculence, there are over 1250 miles of underground sewage piping in Paris.
The More Putrid Side of Paris
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Traditional with polished wood furniture and fine accessories to create a feeling of opulence.
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They have also established an entirely new paradigm in the staid world of cruising: that modernity and youth are not necessarily incompatible with opulence and class.
Times, Sunday Times
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As befits the theme and Gluck's intentions, the sets and costumes forego the company's usual baroque opulence for the clean lines of neoclassicism.
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The Italian-inspired architecture of the baroque period reflects a combination of religious piety and worldly opulence.
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European elites built pineries, pineapple greenhouses, in the 1700s because the fruit symbolized opulence.
Tiny pineapple, tiny queen.
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The return of florals and chintz is also a reflection of a new opulence and conspicuous consumption in interiors.
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The camera enters rooms of spectacular opulence, where men and women converse.
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The new regional assembly buildings rival the imaginary palaces of the fabled kings of Eldorado and the lost city of Atlantis, making the opulence of Nebuchadnezzar seem modest by comparison.
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Opulence exudes from each nook and cranny, and that can be seen in every scene in the movie.
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Ms. Sussman, who was born in England in 1961 but lives and works in Brooklyn, has the ability to subsume viewers in opulence with images as thick and sweet as molasses.
Taking Senses to the Extreme
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There are gorgeous scenery locations and magnificent sets and a real sense of opulence to the production, as if no expense was spared.
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The house was a surreal mixture of opulence and decay.
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It is how a celebrity is used that has changed between the past few years of opulence and today's straitened times.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lack of land and hunger made the neighboring landlords'opulence and luxury especially intolerable.
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This dazzling facade is not, however, what makes Elgar a great composer: for his mature works turn out to be threnodies on Edwardian opulence and might.
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His glance took in the opulence and serenity of the entrance hall, with its painted Adam ceiling and linenfold paneling.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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It is how a celebrity is used that has changed between the past few years of opulence and today's straitened times.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pictures are part of the “55 Blair Road” project, a work that stands out due to its elegance, opulence, contemporaneity and above all, style.
Casa Blair Road by Ong & Ong
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The faded grandeur of the original interiors of this country house has rich decorative schemes, grand reception rooms and private quarters reflecting the opulence of life for the landed gentry.
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Combined with sundeck, swimming pool and sprung sitting room flooring for dancing, these touches might have pushed opulence towards showiness.
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Born in Granada, the ancient Moorish capital of Spain to a family of Spanish artists, Mariano – named after his painter father – was to be forever influenced by the faded, slightly oriental opulence of the land of his birth.
Fortuny’s “Delphos” Gown | Edwardian Promenade
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Media shift the responsibility for sensationalized coverage to a prurient citizenry's market demands for more blood, gore and opulence.
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To be fixed at the mouth of a mine, and to have to descend it daily, and not to discover great opulence below; on the contrary, to be chilled in subterranean sunlessness, without any substantial quality that she could grasp, only the mystery of the inefficient tallow-light in those caverns of the complacent-talking man: this appeared to her too extreme a probation for two or three weeks.
The Egoist
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No wonder, then, that an air of peculiar respectability attached itself to the "wheel" itself which revolved in a corner of the barroom night after night, whirling into opulence or penury, such as entrusted their fortunes to its revolutions.
Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book
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A shameful amount of time was spent wallowing in the opulence of the place.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its very opulence destined it to a life in mostly book form.
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Canopies, finely executed pillars, draperies folded in gentle scallops and garlands lend to her pictures an aura of opulence.
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When you entered the foyer it was like going into a different world: deep, luxurious carpets, soft lights, plushy seats, an atmosphere of opulence and glamour.
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Labour is there so well rewarded that a numerous family of children, instead of being a burthen is a source of opulence and prosperity to the parents.
VIII. Book I. Of the Wages of Labour
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He likes the poem's blend of directness, ornateness and obliquity, unsurprisingly for an Ulsterman who is given to verbal opulence and is notoriously elusive in some of his opinions.
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The presumptuous weak who mistake the wish of distinction for the workings of talent, admire the eccentricities of the gifted youth who is reared in opulence, and, mistaking the prodigality which is only the effect of his fortune, for the attributes of his talents, imitate his errors, and imagine that, by copying the blemishes of his conduct, they possess what is illustrious in his mind.
The Life Studies And Works Of Benjamin West Esq
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Combined with sundeck, swimming pool and sprung sitting room flooring for dancing, these touches might have pushed opulence towards showiness.
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If you can't be bothered with digging a cathole, or find bagging your leavings too coarse, the Portable Toilet could allow you to leave-no-trace with relative opulence.
Undefined
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The Asylum was built between 1864 and 1872 to the design of architects in the Victorian Public Works Department – a gloomy, cut-price riff on Second Empire architectural opulence, initially standing in stark contrast to its function, but with each passing decade converging eerily with it.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Families, bred in opulence and luxury, were reduced to beggary.
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Purple roses: enhancement, magnification, opulence, majesty and glory, " I will always love you!
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How much did opulence films gross last year?
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That's what we tried to portray in the book, this feeling of opulence and grandeur.
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On Buis 'tune "Zest for a Zizz," he suggests the opulence of Ellington's dozen horns by skillfully arraying The Astronotes' five winds in background and foreground roles.
Joost Buis And Astronotes: Controlled Anarchy
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Pleased by the service of his devotee, the Supreme Personality of Godhead reveals his form and opulences.
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Early Victorian taste favoured opulence and eclecticism, so exhibition showpieces coexisted with simpler, compact items like Windsor chairs.
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And the grandness of D ownton Abbey is extreme, even by the standards of "Masterpiece Theatre" opulence — it is lushness unlimited, inside and out.
Pride and Privilege
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Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. Doug Larson
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But much of it also went into the unbridled and anachronistic opulence of the royal family and the main tribal chiefs.
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It's hard to say what you'll find most breathtaking about the eternal city - the arrogant opulence of the Vatican or the timelessness of the Forum.
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Now the spirit is Life, and throughout the universe Life ultimately consists in _circulation_, whether within the physical body of the individual or on the scale of the entire solar system; and circulation means a continual flowing around, and the _spirit_ of opulence is no exception to this universal law of all life.
The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science
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And yet this man he calls the basest of mankind, a name which no man is entitled to call another till he has proved something to justify him in so doing; and notwithstanding his opulence, his high rank, station, and birth, he despises him, and will not suffer him to be heard as an accuser before him.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
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A shameful amount of time was spent wallowing in the opulence of the place.
Times, Sunday Times
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The word couture is synonymous with extravaganza and opulence and with just two shows a day, one can expect elaborate, larger than life sets and detailed work on the garments.
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The members of the society called the faubourg Saint-Germain protected the princess by a respectful silence due to her name, which is one of those that all men honor, to her misfortunes, which they ceased to discuss, and to her beauty, the only thing she saved of her departed opulence.
Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
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The lack of land and hunger made the neighboring landlords'opulence and luxury especially intolerable.
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The opulence of such clergy as were close to the court expressed itself in the overripe late Gothic of the great collegiate churches at Stirling, Linlithgow, Rosslyn, and Perth.
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But there are few cases of ostentatious opulence amid the poverty.
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On the contrary, this bldg is purely a display of opulence, luxury and extravagance by someone who can afford.
Perkins + Will’s Antilla “Green” Tower in Mumbai | Inhabitat
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Known for opulence,the MSC Fantasia boasts the exclusive MSC yacht club featuring a staircase of Swarovski crystals as well as a private lounge with transparent ceilings.
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It's the perfect escape to glamour and opulence if the hippy vibe is all too much.
Times, Sunday Times
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Returning to his own unprepossessing patch of auto show real estate — five cars parked on a stretch of carpet — Zhou assessed the surrounding opulence: Those beautiful vehicles are for the very handsome men, those high in society.
A Car for the Everyday Man
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He enjoyed the best of the Old World's opulence and grace-plays and operas, symphonies and museums, soirées and cotillions.
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No, he takes Scrooge to the market, and shows him the abundance there, especially the fruits sometimes literal of foreign trade: There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence.
A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say
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The columned lobby which doubles as the main office, spells opulence.
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As they were both very conscious people, they recognized in themselves some sense of this, and presently drolled it away, in the opulence of a time when every moment brought some beautiful dream, and the soul could be prodigal of its bliss.
Their Wedding Journey
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It's the perfect escape to glamour and opulence if the hippy vibe is all too much.
Times, Sunday Times
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Martin SkeggWilliam Morris spoke of catering "to the swinish luxury of the rich", something that the five-star hotel has been doing since the words Savoy and Ritz entered the lexicon as bywords for opulence.
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Pleased by the service of his devotee, the Supreme Personality of Godhead reveals his form and opulences.
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Incense here has, to me, a definite "churchy" feel, more specifically, for some reason it makes me think of Orthodox churches with their combination of austere spirit and Byzantine opulence.
Archive 2007-04-01
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He did not mind the opulence, the smoke that permeated the place or the servants that hurried to and fro.
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On all sides he beheld vast stores of apples; some hanging in oppressive opulence on the trees; some gathered into baskets and barrels for the market; others heaped up in rich piles for the cider-press.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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This approach tries to weasel out of making any cross-cultural claims about what has value - although, notice, it does assume the universal value of opulence.
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If you want to dream of opulence, read a Victorian novel or certain Shakespearean plays.
Archive 2004-10-01
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Mutterings of the word "poor" and "rich" naturally create an image of insalubriousness versus opulence.
Accra by Day & Night
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The Italian-inspired architecture of the baroque period reflects a combination of religious piety and worldly opulence.
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In the moralistic atmosphere of 1950s Hollywood, it was tricky to present Colette's account of the risqué demimondaine, and its glorification of the courtesans who relied on wealthy playboys and aristocrats to live in a state of opulence.
France's Courtesan Queen Returns to the Silver Screen
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In a commercial society, according to Rousseau, the people are "scheming, violent, greedy, ambitious, servile, and knavish . . . and all of it at one extreme or the other of misery and opulence.
America's Enduring Ideal
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Her necklaces, also gold and ivory, seemed plain compared to Sevanna's opulence, her dark woolen skirts and white algode blouse drab, yet of the two women, Faile feared Therava far more than she did Sevanna.
Knife of Dreams
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Lenny liked a certain amount of opulence: glitz and glamour, an expensive sound and maximum pizzazz.
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That's what we tried to portray in the book, this feeling of opulence and grandeur.
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To see the private display, the prodigious number of pleasant dwellings erected in Paris and in the provinces, the numerous equipages, the conveniences, the acquisitions comprehended in the term luxe, one might suppose that opulence was twenty times greater than it formerly was.
The Ancient Regime
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A shameful amount of time was spent wallowing in the opulence of the place.
Times, Sunday Times
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The interior is modelled on the old Viennese grand cafés so there's opulence without too much glitz, great pastries, and a relaxed, sophisticated atmosphere.
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We are not demoralized or effeminated by the luxury and abundance which are ours, but elevated rather, and strengthened by the very magnificence and opulence of our circumstances, and by the perfect freedom, under healthful restraint, which we enjoy through the community's strong, vigorous, moral and intellectual tone.
The Dominion in 1983
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We are in the era of guarded opulence and while heads are rolling in town, a certain level of indulgence continues to continue in Napoleon's France.
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The functional simplicity of the gym contrasts with the opulence of the marble floors, the paintings and the drapes.