How To Use Opulent In A Sentence
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Of course the bulk of those opulent knick-knacks manufactured for the Carolingian and Ottonian Emperors, and now to be seen at Aachen, are as beastly as anything else that is made simply to be precious.
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Most of the cash went on supporting his opulent lifestyle.
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He relishes an opulent lifestyle with palatial homes in Europe and America, private jets, two yachts and a helicopter.
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The palate is an opulent offering of warm and delectable flavors that last long into the impressive finish.
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Opus X, Opus being a derivative from "opulent," the word "opulent," X is their Project X.
CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2002
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Of Oaxaca's twenty-seven churches, by far the most opulent is the Santo Domingo de Guzmán, built by Indian artisans in the 16th and 17th centuries and displaying much gold leaf.
Oaxaca: a festive city
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Opulent outfits and glittering statement jewelry pieces aren't just for night time.
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Ad ipsum fretum Herculis Hispaniae objacet Fessanum regnum, cujus caput Fez, urbs totius Barbariae princeps, ingens, opulenta, frequens, splendida ac magnificis superbisque aedificiis miranda.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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It is certainly much more opulent, with sweeter, jammier, richer fruit than the 1988 most recently rated 88 points.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates
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But the real highlight of the trip was dinner, served in the opulent dining cars by candlelight on linen, with crystal, flowers and silverware.
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Fanciful miniature fruits and leaves interpreted in carnelian, agate, onyx and rock crystal are skillfully fashioned into opulent bracelets and chains.
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With its opulent boudoirs, quaint cul-de-sacs and misty train stations, it's not the way France actually looked, but the way we wish it did.
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So if you crave something sweet, try its opulent fruit salad loaded with kiwi, mango, pineapple, grapes and strawberries or tinned lychees (the only fruit that is arguably as good tinned as fresh).
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This wine is deep, bright ruby colour an opulent ripe, blackberry fruit intensity.
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The day after the launch, Mara is sitting in the party's opulent election campaign headquarters in the National Treasury Building.
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There are 87 bedrooms, all in country-house style, and the newly decorated executive rooms, some with four-poster beds, feature darker, lusher colour schemes in opulent damasks and velours.
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Garcia Maquez's magic realism sheds a light on tyranny that is no less illuminating for its kaleidoscopic nature; Toni Morrison's opulent, curvaceous sentences give us a taste of the poison of racism, as do J.M. Coetzee's angularities.
Moral Fiction
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Beyond the crack, I caught a peak at a room built purely for comfort, decorated so richly as to be almost too opulent.
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Like many other Belgian architects he went from traditionalism to an opulent non-mainstream modernism - there don't seem to have been many Blomfieldesque ragers against Modernismus here.
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But the real highlight of the trip was dinner, served in the opulent dining cars by candlelight on linen, with crystal, flowers and silverware.
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Ringo has kept a home in LA since the mid-Seventies, luxuriating in the climate, the blissfully opulent lifestyle, and the presence of scores of fellow musicians.
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The little animals though fat were lithe; they were heavy, their coats shone, opulent and dense.
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One reality supplants another as a drab home is replaced with opulent apartments and decadent parties.
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Schwartz also recalled the remade movie version of "Oceans 11" featuring the opulent
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One of the most curious economic indicators is the surprising resurgence of that most opulent of habits - sending children to boarding school.
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We disregarded these gathering clouds – and pretended that a period we retrospectively dub opulent and irresponsible was normal – when we might at least have been enjoying their silver linings.
Whelk ice cream never meant we stopped being a Pot Noodle nation
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He was photographed and pointed out and banqueted and invited to speak at opulent charity events.
Mark Twain
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Under the opulent chandelier of the Continental Hotel, well-heeled characters try to simulate bourgeois normality in a world of chaotic street battles and high-level skulduggery.
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It was easy to grow—adaptable and prolific, not to mention stylistically diverse, ranging from the minerally, peppery style of the Northern Rhône, its ancestral home, to the headier, more opulent style of Australian Shiraz.
Can We Rekindle Our Love Affair With Syrah?
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About a month ago when my parents suggested they treat me to an opulent, all-inclusive experience over the week of Thanksgiving, it was an offer I simply couldn't refuse.
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Yet its opulent, mouldering furnishings appear intact, its books look down from the shelves, their spines unspoiled but their pages crumbled by termites.
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The Berkeley Court Hotel's opulent ballroom with its lofty ceiling, tall mirrors and huge chandeliers offers the perfect backdrop for a glamorous night.
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His mouth, settled between opulent, smooth shaven jowls, was full and sensual.
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It was currently dressed like a sultana, and a particularly opulent sultana at that.
Lips that Touch Liquor: The Gin Buck
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I also think it's fair to say most USians have never seen an "opulent" hospital!
Will they get fooled again? striking back at harry and louise
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He works from an opulent Beverly Hills headquarters, whose inner sanctum was modestly designed to resemble the Oval Office.
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Inside, the public rooms were sumptuously decorated in the florid style of old Venice with arching, beamed ceilings, sconced walls covered with opulent moire silks, and lush color everywhere - the wholly Venetian shades of blue, green, yellow and burnt orange.
The Kaisho
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I told him to reflect well that he was about to commit himself with a foe that was immortal, for a faculty never dies, and to rest assured that after having brought three monks to bay, he would have to defend himself against numerous legions, not only opulent and powerful, but, besides, very dishonest and very experienced in the practice of every kind of cheatery, who would never rest until they had effected his ruin, were his cause as just as Christ's.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4
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Both films are vivid riots of colour, rhythm and violence, full of gun-toting gangsters and visually opulent set pieces.
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Somehow, the Gance film is most startling in this department, as the women's bared breasts and the men's bared bottoms -- not to mention the devastatingly unleashed female libido portrayed -- are couched in an opulent production that marries the rustic fantasia of Cocteau's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST to a velvety color cinematography that recalls THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD or, better yet, one of the early Disney animated features.
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An opulent jewel in the dusty, cracked landscape, it became a haven for birds, being visited by pied kingfishers, mountain chats, spoonbills, bokmakieries, a pair of black-shouldered kites.
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A small and far from opulent country, Scotland remained a middle-ranking European power.
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The opulent, yet bright orchestration and the chromatic melismata around the tritone and the melodic minor scale all point toward the composer of Schelomo.
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Each location and set is opulent, textured and rich, portraying a period feel while keeping a morbid and often gothic atmosphere.
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[Footnote 1: "... intactis opulentior Thesauris Arabum, et divitis
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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It's bow was adorned by a woman's figure crafted by San Francisco sculpture Monica Maduro and it's inside was described as opulent, with gilded frames and velvet trim.
Merced Sun-Star: front
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The ceiling was enormously high with elaborate plasterwork round the remains of a nonexistent chandelier and an opulent floral dado.
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Very well: the "light" is more and more withdrawn; and for some time you have a general dusk, very favorable for catching mice; and the opulent owlery is very "happy," and well-off at its banker's; -- and furthermore, by due sequence, infallible as the foundations of the Universe and Nature's oldest law, the light _returns_ on you, condensed, this time, into _lightning_, which there is not any skin whatever too thick for taking in!
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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The ruins of churches and monasteries fascinated him, but he grieved to find the once populous and opulent capital of Portuguese India absolutely a city of the dead.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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Although Wainwright's aesthetic is opulent, it is never kitsch.
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One country I have increasingly championed is Portugal, which is emerging from a past dominated by the production of port to produce a swathe of wines from opulent reds in the Douro valley, to dry whites with a distinctive mineral core even further north in the Minho, to wines with a distinctly Portuguese character in the southern province of Alentejo.
Trawling for Bargains
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‘We are fortunate in Yorkshire and the Humber to have such a rich historic environment from high quality streetscapes, to mills, workshops, stately homes and opulent parks,’ he said.
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Just as the musicians' lyrics are violent, obscene and self-pitying, so is the generation that supports their opulent lifestyle.
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But I had felt no urge to buy a palace, live in the opulent luxury I could certainly afford, or buy flashy cars.
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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The family appears middle-class, living in attractive apartments, where the colours are warm and the flowers opulent.
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A professional and caring staff pamper spa and sauna members in the most opulent and grand setting.
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The recent spate of showbiz deaths only points to the fact that life, no matter how opulent or in debt, no matter how famous, infamous or unobserved is short and not always sweet.
Steven Weber: Pop Goes the King
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Civitas opulenta, dives, fecunda, in qua nemo vivat otiosus.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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If you're looking for a medium-sized bush for borders, four-foot-tall Madame Isaac Pereire, a blowsy Bourbon rose with arching canes full of opulent purplish-pink flowers is deliciously fragrant and reblooms throughout the summer.
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A relatively young dramatic soprano, her many-colored, opulent voice already has the heft for this part in a moderately large house.
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The blog began as a casual travelogue, with a brief video tour of an assaultively opulent bedroom in the Shah's palace narrated for Mr. Moore's wife Mary and photos of Mr. Moore getting a haircut at a Tehran barber shop.
Basketball, Iranian Style
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Her engaging survey and his fittingly opulent volume, an upbeat gambol through Bollywood's history, are both the work of knowledgeable enthusiasts.
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Fifteen years have passed away, and these old people, no doubt, have joined their ancestors; but I can see them still sitting in that _salle à manger_; the _buffets en vieux chêne_; the opulent candelabra _en style d'empire_; the waiter lighting the gas in the pale Parisian evening.
Confessions of a Young Man
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At the risk of being called penurious, I confess that I was immensely relieved when I learned that these precious jewels in the shape of fruit had been paid for in advance by the opulent mother of the Countess.
A Fool and His Money
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As we enter the Great Nicholas Hall, the opulent room is filled with thousands of aristocrats dancing the mazurka in gorgeous period costumes.
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His South African father urges him to take a job as a croupier in an opulent casino.
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Kelly Hoppen MBE is a world renowned designer who has pioneered a simple, yet opulent style that has permeated Interior Design at every level.
Inspirational Wallpapers Ideas from Ferm Living
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Formerly the personal estate of a wealthy British businessman in the late 1920s, Hengshan Moller Villa still retains elements of its distinctive and opulent past.
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She had quickly registered the difference between Archie's grotty residence and the opulent garage, but said nothing.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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While Dewar is seen as having been the most cultured First Minister, he was known as having found the style too opulent for his simple tastes in furnishings and decoration.
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Might have sent me on the same errand by daylight, mightn’t he? opulento homini hoc servitus dura est, hoc magis miser est divitis servos noctesque diesque assiduo satis superque est, quod facto aut dicto adeost opus, quietus ne sis.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
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Often have we occasion to behold great and afflicting re* verses in the external circumstances of opulent families, and miserable are they who have not been taught with virtuous equanimity to bear them, or who liave no re - sources in their own faculties, bodily, or mental, to apply them to other means of subsistence.
The Lectures, Corrected and Improved, which Have Been Delivered for a Series of Years in the ...
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Metallic mosaic tiles, opulently draped curtains, and fringed rugs and throws all contributed to the heady and exotic effect of an Ali Baba cave.
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In medieval and early modern times, male dress was opulent and highly erotic, as the Renaissance codpiece attests.
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His other subjects included nudes, landscapes, portraits, and opulent flower pieces.
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In this small Moslem cabaret I think there was nobody more opulent than a small shopkeeper, but the performers numbered a male gypsy who sang and played the gusla, a very beautiful Serbian singer, a still more beautiful gypsy girl who sang and danced, and this danseuse de ventre, who was called Astral When Astra came round and rattled the plate at our table I found she was a Salonica Jewess, member of another colony of refugees from Ferdinand and Isabella who still speak Spanish, and I asked her to come and see me the next day at my hotel and give me a lesson in the danse de ventre.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV
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The only sound is the purr of absurdly opulent motorised yachts cruising out of the harbour for a day messing about on the waves.
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I bring this to his attention in the opulent comfort of the living room of his Holland Park house.
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They're opulent, suggestible and effortfully sophisticated, but more importantly, they are not just wishful thinking.
Times, Sunday Times
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This lavish, opulent approach - one might call it ‘good taste with good humour’ - is typical of her style.
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Superbia major quam opulenti rustici, invidia quam luis venerae inimicitia nocentior melancholia, avaritia in immensum profunda.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Later fauteuils of this type by Jacob Freres and Jacob Desmalter are typically entirely gilded, rendering them more opulent than those designed for the Salle du Conseil.
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The Velingrad factory was able to provide replacements that respected the castle's classical tradition and opulent furnishings.
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Pour me a glass of rum and within the vapors rises a raucous and even romantic history of joy, tragedy and debauchery: tippling houses in Barbados in the early 1600's, where British settlers supped the earliest permutation of rum, which they referred to as "kill-devil"; jug wielding pirates careening through the streets of Port Royal in Jamaica, wildly spending their pieces of eight plundered from the Spanish and British empires; independence-minded American revolutionaries huddled in taverns drinking rum Flips and plotting their resistance against the heavy taxes imposed upon them by the British; Americans fleeing Prohibition downing Daiquiris and Swizzles in the jammed bars of Havana; opulent tiki palaces serving Mai Tais, flaming Scorpion bowls, Hurricanes and Fog Cutters to lei-festooned business-men and June Cleaveresque housewives.
Slashfood
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Bieito's setting is a palatial private bar furnished with black leather chairs and an opulent drinks table.
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Denim, linen, suede, and Italian suiting are the media in which his trademark sensibility for opulent detail is expressed.
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The peacock-blue gown she wore was opulently oversewn with pearls.
Ship Of Destiny
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The room is a feast of gilt and opulent yellow-patterned fabrics, and it has a floor of aged, biscuit-brown polished wood rather than the almost inescapable blond parquet.
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Touchy-feely fabrics such as fur, sheepskin, suede, crushed velvet and silk will dominate, in deep colours reflecting their opulent nature - aubergines, olives, purples and chocolates.
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The Di Fiore family is likewise desperate as they watch their once opulent estate crumble around them and fear their elevated social status hangs in the balance.
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Wear an embellished belt or glitzy cuffs with a plain knit or skirt, and use black to counterbalance an opulent shoe or bag.
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You could imagine that she only exists within the most glittering, buzzy and opulent of surroundings.
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This will not be determined by the home's value, but rather by subjective criteria such as opulent decorations.
Taipei's Politics of Envy
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He looks a bit like a courier, somewhat out of place in the opulent surroundings.
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The tiny, elfin figure that is Canada's most lauded novelist is sipping cappuccino from a china cup in an opulent hotel lounge.
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It features opulent sets, exquisite costumes and lush Busby Berkeley-style dance sequences.
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Many of the restaurants provide accommodation as well as a delicious menu, be it a cosy space above a local pub or large, opulent guest rooms.
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The trees were stately, an opulent mix of mature broadleaf and conifer marching alongside the water in an unruly column stretching to the end of Hillside Drive and beyond.
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The only sound is the purr of absurdly opulent motorised yachts cruising out of the harbour for a day messing about on the waves.
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But only Russian mafiosi can get hold of opulent, charcoal-grey, mild and civilized Beluga eggs nowadays. for the rest of us, paddlefish may look like a tarry smear, but in a blind tasting, they make many folks think they are eating sevruga, a prized Caspian sturgeon variety with small eggs and a buttery flavor.
Like a Sturgeon
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The costumes, which have to be rather opulent to fit the period of the play, fill eight trunks and that is not counting all the turbans they wear on stage, he adds.
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Hearing these versions is like enjoying a meal in one of Vienna's oldest five-star restaurants: there are no surprises, but traditionalism rarely has been upheld with such opulent perfection.
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Opulent Persian weavings smoldered on the floor, and there was a festoonery of incense burners and candelabra.
Another Roadside Attraction
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More BMW touches are evident in the interior, which has been spiffed up to truly opulent standards.
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Spacek’s clueless, baton-twirling Holly proclaims love for Sheen’s Kit and all his fake bravado in opulent romance-novel voiceovers.
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For all the opulent exoticism of his unique harmony, Alexander Scriabin was nothing if not meticulous about musical form and structure.
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However, Mr Dominguez says that by showing what he describes as the opulent lifestyles the Castros live in a communist country like Cuba he has achieved his aim.
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The musical is set in Depression-era USA and the costumes and scenery aptly depicted the contrast between soup kitchens of the down-and-outs and the opulent homes and lifestyles of the rich.
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Terrific .... nice balance of rich and opulent style with elegance and "drinkability".
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However, the interiors as they appeared after the house was completed in 1902 were rich with color and opulent materials.
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Igitur in locum ambobus placitum [422] exercitus conveniunt; ibi fide data et accepta Jugurtha Bocchi animum oratione accendit: Romanes injustos, profunda avaritia, [423] communes omnium hostes esse; eandem illos causam belli cum Boccho habere quam secum et cum aliis gentibus, libidinem imperitandi, quis [424] omnia regna adversa sint; tum sese, [425] paulo ante Carthaginienses, item regem Persen, post, uti quisque opulentissimus videatur, ita Romanis hostem fore.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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She did not loathe the shiny "quartered oak" dining-room pieces -- her father's venture in an opulent moment -- nor the dingy pine bedroom sets, nor even the worn "ingrain" carpets, as she did these precious relics of her grandmother's home.
One Woman's Life
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To them, recovering from a broken collar bone in the opulent surroundings of Clarence House, would be luxury.
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The corrupt and opulent nobles of Rome gratified every vice that could be collected from the might conflux of nations and manners, they lived without restraint in the patient and humble society of their slaves and parasites.
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Accordingly, the transitional period between the opulent baroque period and the less formal rococo era of Louis XV became known as French Régence, or Regency.
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His musical palette constantly overflows with colour, never garish yet sometimes opulent and sometimes sombre.
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Everything seemed to go on as usual in the quiet, opulent house; the good-natured mistress pursuing, quite unsuspiciously, her bustling idleness, and daily easy avocations; the daughter absorbed still in one selfish, tender thought, and quite regardless of all the world besides, when that final crash came, under which the worthy family fell.
Vanity Fair
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Colour predictions included lime green, with smatterings of orange for the retro fans and for more opulent effects, aubergine, brown and maroon.
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Zeng Li deserves praise for the sumptuous sets, and Jerome Kaplan for the opulent costumes.
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Anne Keers, from Ampleforth, went for an opulent feel, in a long black velvet jacket from Mexx and patterned shift dress from Pennita, Helmsley.
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By its sheer contrast to his usual surroundings, this place seemed opulent to Steil, rather than merely nice.
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Once the symbol of a rich legacy, they used to grace the opulent confines of sprawling traditional houses belonging to the aristocratic class.
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Containing preserved frescoes and opulent glass mosaics, this remarkable archaeological discovery provides a rare insight into the daily life and culture of the period.
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These venerable ladies had admitted that in marrying, even opulently, out of the family, Emma had once more shown velleities of self-sacrifice.
The Collectors
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The second entrance hall is bigger with more marble, a grim but opulent place.
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It should be said, in justice to the New Haven colonists, though they were the most opulent of the New England planters, save the wealthy settlers of Narragansett, that money of all kinds was scarce, and that the Indian money, wampum-peag, being made of a comparatively frail sea-shell, was more easily disfigured and broken than was metal coin; and that there was little transferable wealth in the community anyway, even in "Country Pay.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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Bernard Sun of the Jean Georges group called it "lively and opulent" and Belinda liked "the brioche on the nose"; Raj Vaidya of Daniel aka the class clown thought it smelled "like the air coming out of the subway on a hot day," or alternately, "a decaying dishrag.
The 1996 Champagnes: Great, but Just How Great?
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Opulent aromas of butter and spice are kept fresh by scents of preserved lemon that entice to a full buttery mouthful of succulent tropical fruits with a much needed refreshing lemony zing on the finish.
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Accordingly, the transitional period between the opulent baroque period and the less formal rococo era of Louis XV became known as French Régence, or Regency.
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The '94 sauvignon blanc is extremely ripe, in a figgier, fuller, more opulent style than the '93 vintage.
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This time it was a confectioner's shop, decidedly grandiose and apparently opulent.
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The bandeirante wrote: "The ruins well showed the size and grandeur which must have been there and how populous and opulent it had been in the age in which it flourished.
Signs of the Times
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I presume the aim is to provide an atmosphere that is inoffensively opulent, timeless and bland, so that nothing distracts you from thinking about the sensation in your mouth.
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Probably the most beautiful spectacle ever afforded by the natural world is that of a complete and far-reaching ice-storm, locally known as a glissade, transcending in delicate aerial fantasy the swiftly changing faint green panorama of early spring or the amber hazes of opulent autumn.
Ringfield A Novel
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Clinton thinks it is very important to raise taxes on the obscenely opulent, meaning families earning more than $200,000 (about 850,000 or .6 percent of the 115 million taxpayers).
Purring Along The Potomac
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Was it still the time of those opulent balls and of southern belles like Scarlett flirting with everyone?
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Even a plate of herb-roasted chicken speaks with assurance here: the bird moist and full of serious chicken flavor; a winy and nicely uninsistent sauce of chanterelle mushrooms making a bed of melted leeks taste even more opulent.
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This is accompanied by the trend towards opulent styling, mahogany panelling and traditional brassware.
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Jones, apparently feeling rather opulent that day, lit up a second cigar as soon as he had finished the first.
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The bolection profile imitates the opposing curves of a Baroque architectural façade, whilst helping to project the painting against a correspondingly opulent interior.
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Fanciful miniature fruits and leaves interpreted in carnelian, agate, onyx and rock crystal are skillfully fashioned into opulent bracelets and chains.
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So if you crave something sweet, try its opulent fruit salad loaded with kiwi, mango, pineapple, grapes and strawberries or tinned lychees (the only fruit that is arguably as good tinned as fresh).
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The portrayal of his relationship with his mother was moving, and the opulent domestic setting allowed the exploration of family relations to be even more cutting.
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The inside of each individually-designed bag is equally sumptuous, in baby silk pink or deep opulent red.
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Angustatur ex abundantia, contristatur ex opulentia, infelix praesentibus bonis, infelicior in futuris.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The next room is deeply wooded and leathered, luminously brown and opulent, gently mirrored and boothed and windowed.
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Chicago is an opulent display of glitz and glamour.
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Around them spreads not a desert but an opulent terrain.
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When the rich buy opulent second, third, and fourth homes, they drive up the price of land and housing and force the less fortunate onto the street.
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This province was beAowed by the emperor Charles v on the Velfers of Auglburg, the moit opulent merchants, at that time, in Europe, in confideration of large fums they had advanced to him.
The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the
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Formerly the personal estate of a wealthy British businessman in the late 1920s, Hengshan Moller Villa still retains elements of its distinctive and opulent past.
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Wear an embellished belt or glitzy cuffs with a plain knit or skirt, and use black to counterbalance an opulent shoe or bag.
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Regis dignitatis non est exercere imperium in mendicos sed in opulentos.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The opulent color of many of the works furthers their impact and feels like a recent development, even though his palette has been steadily intensifying over the last few years.
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But his home, built in the base of an old, hollowed-out vallenwood, was quite large by dwar - ven standards - opulent even, he reflected, with not a little pride.
Flint, the King
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I knew it was a compliment about something that was buttery rich, deliciously opulent and lip-smacking cool.
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The camera work is eye-poppingly opulent, but feels more self-indulgent than clever.
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He relishes an opulent lifestyle with palatial homes in Europe and America, private jets, two yachts and a helicopter.
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Anyhow… I have read about some slaveys that had very lavish opulent lifestyles because their owners were very caring.
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Acres of silk, satin, bamboo and quilted fabrics combined to create an opulent Oriental collection.
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It's a wonderfully opulent survey, providing the chance to bring together some rarely seen works, in particular Degas' epoch-making Absinthe.
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The album's best moments come in the form of opulent ballads that wallow in overproduction that actually works.
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Most of the cash went on supporting his opulent lifestyle.
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Figrured the '05 vintage would give a relatively opulent and heady sforzato, but this was more subdued and drier overall than my expectations.
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This lavish, opulent approach - one might call it ‘good taste with good humour’ - is typical of her style.
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One country I have increasingly championed is Portugal, which is emerging from a past dominated by the production of port to produce a swathe of wines from opulent reds in the Douro valley, to dry whites with a distinctive mineral core even further north in the Minho, to wines with a distinctly Portuguese character in the southern province of Alentejo.
Trawling for Bargains
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And the hotel's opulent dining rooms, with elaborately decorated gold columns and mirrored walls, serve good food.
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Armeniam maiorem, ad quandam ciuitatem quæ vocatur Azaron, quæ erat multùm opulenta antiquitus, sed Tartari eam pro magna parte destruxterunt: In ea erat abundantia panis et carnium, et aliorum omnium victualium praeterquam vini et fructuum.
The Journal of Friar Odoric
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It's based in the opulent Glasgow hotel, One Devonshire Gardens, thus guaranteeing a steady stream of starry names among the diners.
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Jobs are no longer guaranteed, even for the educated middle classes, and there is poverty right next to the opulent palaces of the rulers.
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As at any respectable chophouse, the menu is chock-full of opulent side dishes.
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Yet its opulent, mouldering furnishings appear intact, its books look down from the shelves, their spines unspoiled but their pages crumbled by termites.
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The couple live an opulent lifestyle and travel all the time.
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Fat, supple, and loaded with black cherry and curranty fruit and a dash of vanilla from new oak barrels, this full-bodied, velvety-textured, opulent wine should be drunk between now and 2008.
The World’s Greatest Wine Estates
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The Emperor was carried on his opulent palanquin across the centre bridge along the north-south axis on his journey through his city.
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The town became an opulent centre of a powerful and prosperous state.
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The wealth from oil enabled him to head an opulent and corrupt court.
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Opulent style, fine craftsmanship, and authentic details elevate Paris Las Vegas far above the ordinary.
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Yet its opulent, mouldering furnishings appear intact, its books look down from the shelves, their spines unspoiled but their pages crumbled by termites.
