How To Use Sumptuous In A Sentence
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The door opens onto a stunning, high ceilinged, light-filled apartment, its 17-foot-tall Austrian windows framed by the aforementioned black cast-iron arches, its finishes bespeaking a level of sumptuousness uncommon in the more cookie-cutter condos of the moderately rich.
Opulently Hidden, In Plain Sight
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Then came a sumptuous antepast; for we were all seated, but only
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
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Also on the program that night were the Marshall Dancers from the Lower Yukon, dressed in sumptuous headdresses that were trimmed with wolf and beaver fur.
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Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin.
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The sumptuous VIP room - the Krug Room - is an intimate setting where indulgence is accompanied by fine delicacies like oysters and caviar.
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The most sumptuous and heady of fragrances, these feature exotic flowers like Bulgarian rose, jasmine and tuberose, as well as mysterious musks, woods and other exotic essences.
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It is a sumptuous and intelligent film about love and thwarted ambition.
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Not only English society, but Indian princes and princesses, American millionaires, and Continental aristocrats attended this ball attired in sumptuous costumes worth thousands upon thousands of pounds.
Mansions of Mayfair | Edwardian Promenade
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A sumptuous garniture, we learn, was commissioned by Charles V to make his son Philip look more plausible as a candidate for emperor in 1550.
Armor as Wearable Sculpture
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What she offers for six lucky passengers is simple comfort, sumptuous meals and bags of character.
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Trompe Le Monde features classic French cuisine served amid sumptuous surroundings.
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Their rich, sumptuous food contrasted with the simple and plain food prepared by the ordinary people of Nepal.
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Maybe that's a bit presumptuous.
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It sounds very presumptuous to say I wish to purify Mahler, but I do think, in a sense, that Mahler now has to be purified of all these non-musical preconceptions that have become attached to him.
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At the end, the grandpas and grandmas were treated with a belated but sumptuous Onam feast which the aged from various day care centres and old age homes in the city enjoyed.
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In his encyclical on ecumenism, Pope Paul II speaks of the need to overcome our exclusiveness, our reluctance to forgive, our pride, our presumptuous disdain, and our unevangelical proclivity to condemn the other side.
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So how did it emerge as such a sumptuous musical feast?
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The dining car had oak woodwork, potted palms and sumptuous meals.
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From Thursday on, the television cameras will beam sumptuous shots of loblolly pines and blushing azaleas around the world.
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God, however, decided to punish them for their presumptuousness in erecting the tower by making them speak different languages.
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Ivy, candles and fruit arranged in a wire basket make a sumptuous centrepiece.
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We are in a sumptuous room of suede and fur.
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It was in his time that the use of rosewater as a flavouring for food came into vogue in the lavish and sumptuous cuisine of the Arabs.
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This is as well as having rooms at more sumptuous city centre bases.
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Nick Gevers said it best: "(the novel) tells in sumptuous claustrophobic detail just how alien -- and alienated -- a human society might become, portraying a mighty far-future city state driven by absolute standards of meritocracy turning against itself in hysteria and bloodshed
Jack Vance "To Live Forever" & other extravaganzas
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One group unpacked a sumptuous meal of steaming lasagna and other gourmet delights, along with the requisite bottle of vintage wine.
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It feels a little too presumptuous.
The Sun
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This is as well as having rooms at more sumptuous city centre bases.
The Sun
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Lo, Pythonic brethren and sistren sic, our sacred fools are back, bearing sumptuous gifts for the discerning comedic and musical connoisseur.
Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah : Monty Python Strikes Again!
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After a sumptuous five course meal the gathering danced the night away to some great music.
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This is as well as having rooms at more sumptuous city centre bases.
The Sun
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This was opera on the grand scale: historical drama, sumptuous costumes, complex stage machinery, a huge cast, dazzling solo parts, and ballet in the entr'acte.
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This visually sumptuous exhibition brings together some of the finest paintings the artist produced while in Britain.
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The rooms are sumptuously furnished with fine art and decoration.
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This sumptuous wine has a strong amber green colour and a honeyed nose.
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Sumptuous maybe, but these programmes were riddled with stereotypes - setting suns, crowds of smiling children, inexplicable crazed violence - and had little new to say.
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Yesterday, my solicitor entered my bed-chamber unsummoned, a presumptuous act for which I once would have had him flayed three times about the court-yard.
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This sumptuous bauble, appropriately named the Tor Abbey Jewel, was doubtless made for a wealthy patron.
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And so the population was gradually led into the demoralising temptations of arcades, baths, and sumptuous banquets.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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Upstairs, we had the run of the deck, from where we were served sumptuous meals.
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Two grand staircases frame the 50m long ramp, sumptuously sculpted with coiled dragons, marking the imperial emblem.
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Awoke to a beautiful clear blue sky again (starting to lose the "moz") and after a sumptuous breakfast of bacon and eggs (Father's Day ritual) and the normal morning routines it was into the car and we drove the 4km further along the dirt road and arrived at the ranger station at
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But it is a classy vessel with wooden decks and sumptuous velvet interiors.
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It is a sumptuous and intelligent film about love and thwarted ambition.
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We are in a sumptuous room of suede and fur.
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Think luxe fabrics like velvet and brocade teamed with sumptuous bows and frills.
The Sun
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I think it would be presumptuous to offer a guarantee, but what I can say to you is that it is absolutely at the heart of our thinking.
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The king of the said land of Iaua hath a most braue and sumptuous pallace, the most loftily built, that euer I saw any, and it hath most high greeses and stayers to ascend vp to the roomes therein contained, one stayre being of siluer, and another of gold, throughout the whole building.
The Journal of Friar Odoric
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Harold's presumptuous guilt in rejection, the fiery fanaticism of all enlisted under the gonfanon of the Church.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
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Spiral staircases and heaps of elegance lead the way to sumptuous rooms.
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Red carpets flow up sumptuous staircases and the walls erupt in cornices and curlicues.
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It is, of course, utterly presumptuous to declare the race over before a single vote has been cast.
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And so the population was gradually led into the demoralising temptations of arcades, baths, and sumptuous banquets.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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Would it be presumptuous of me to ask to borrow your car?
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Why the word “terrorist” leads so many people into a state of hysterical presumptuousness accompanied by demands to defy our constitution blatantly, is beyond me.
Matthew Yglesias » Mitch McConnell vs the FBI
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The production features dance and live music played by the company, a genuine Broadway fortepiano and sumptuous period costumes, all presented within a light and airy set.
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While Stout eschewed the splashy gestures of expressionism, there is a deep, almost lyrical sensuality not only in his shapes, but in the sumptuous metallic texture of the graphite.
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Now, my dear, regale us with your description of the sumptuous desserts available to us on this, our Lord's natal day.
AMERICAN GODS
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Served in the sumptuous dining room, dinner here compares favourably with anything you'll find in Scotland's top restaurants.
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China's sumptuous golf clubs are known for their chandeliered clubhouses, luxury changing rooms and super-rich clientele.
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After sumptuous banquet, they also took us to a dance hall to dance and sing.
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This was certainly good food by Tudor standards but it paled compared to the sumptuous meals served to the more senior courtiers, such as the gentlemen of the privy chamber.
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Even when you have little hope that the nominee will decide the cases the way you want, you have a problem with the presumptuousness of putting a person like that on the Court.
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Already, we've got presumptuous soccer powerhouses in flames; clotheshorse managers who appear to be angling for invites aboard Valentino's yacht; referees under siege; and unforgettably melodramatic acting.
Now Appearing in South Africa: Les Mis
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Their love of sumptuous clothes is simultaneously the inspiration for and the evidence of their ‘wanton, lewd, and unchaste behavior’.
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Gill has used reclaimed timber, sumptuous fabrics and imaginative attention to detail to create a Georgian traditional country style home.
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As the clock struck two the meal was in readiness and a sumptuous one it was.
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The most sumptuous painting in this show is Titian's Diana and Actaeon.
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Visually sumptuous, the film overwhelms with sweeping shots of the now bleak, desolate, "Potter"-dom.
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Beware of a presumptuous and thankless person who tends to take advantage of your good nature.
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The beaches are serving up tantalisingly sumptuous platters of bronzed flesh.
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard Rizzoli From the book 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard/Rizzoli Reuter table with shagreen and ivory marquetry From the book 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard/Rizzoli Collectionneur chest in black lacquer No designer has come to stand for the glamorous 1920s and '30s more definitively than Jacques Émile Ruhlmann, with his exquisite marquetry of ivory and rare woods, sumptuous textiles and gleaming metal accents.
All Hands on Deco
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Yet this same day, my local Pressing, where I bring my sumptuous linen sheets to be cleaned (which I bought by being cheap, and bargained for at a flea market), mistakenly overcharged me 60 centimes, which I didn't discover until I got home.
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It seems presumptuous to call a marquess's heir Josh.
Snow Angels
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I guess I'm not presumptuous enough to declare how it turned out for me.
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The camp itself was essentially a series of huge tents decorated with an eye toward sumptuousness—overstuffed couches, a dinner table made from beached wood, a makeshift bar area—all atop raised, rich hardwood flooring.
In the Time of Bobby Cox
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Why do you scarify His works with this presumptuous kind of ribaldry?
Heart of the West [Annotated]
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Call this presumptuous arrogance or call it faith in our selves.
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It struck me strange that my mother from whose loving hands I had partaken many a sumptuous meal had been immured in the kitchen confines all along.
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he despised them for their presumptuousness
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Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin.
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In the meanwhile, during your absence, I shall not be neglective of providing a wife for you, nor of those preparations which are requisite to be made for the more sumptuous solemnizing of your nuptials with a most splendid feast, if ever there was any in the world, since the days of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The word Crimea, Krym, sounds like “cream”—sumptuous, hedonistic, melting on my tongue, with a sweet aftertaste of decadence and longing.
A Mountain of Crumbs
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Sumptuous screen epics like " Sodom and Gomorrah " and " The Slave Queen " were produced under this banner.
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The Boeing business jet also comes with a choice of interior decoration ranging from the basic to sumptuous.
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The gourmet restaurant La Truffe serves the sumptuous dinners you would expect in an international hotel.
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This exquisitely delicate fruit quite rightly features in many sumptuous dessert recipes.
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She produces elegant wedding gowns in a variety of sumptuous fabrics.
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The chance to pit your wits against the best players in the country, in the most sumptuous and atmospheric of football arenas, just doesn't get any better for a professional footballer.
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Here the sumptuous richness of digital video is brought to an extreme, an impressionistic dazzle which almost overwhelms, the play of light and color as vivid and subtle as Monet, but moving, and richly attended with sounds.
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The gaslights flickered softly, and as the time passed the surroundings no longer seemed faded and threadbare but rich and sumptuous.
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He sees the gaiety of Sundays, the flashes of the sun, the oddity of a crowd carried away by the rhythm of the valses, the laughter, the clinking of glasses, the vibrating and hot atmosphere; and he applies to this spectacle of joyous vulgarity his gifts as a sumptuous colourist, the arabesque of the lines, the gracefulness of his bathers, and the happy eurythmy of his soul.
The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
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No expense was spared at the sumptuous wedding feast.
BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
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From Hong Kong to Honduras, and from South Africa to Scottsdale, I have spa-ed, soaked, swum, wined and dined in palatial hotels and resorts with perfect beds, sumptuous bathrooms, impeccable service and world-class designer décor.
Judie Fein: From Five Star to Farm: How About a Little Agritourism?
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The enormity of my presumptuousness cows even me.
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Rich merchants erected extravagant public buildings and temples and tombs, living and dying in sumptuous style.
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Resuming the thread of the history; tliis alliance, which the Jews had contracted witii I'gypt, augment - ed their confidence at a time when every considera - tion should have abated it; it elated them with the presumptuous notion, of being adequate to frustrate the designs of Nebuchadnezzar, or lather those cf God himself, who had declared that he would sub - jugate all the east to this potentate.
Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague
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Well, between Enstrom's lying in testimony--making irritation with him, well, a little more understandable at least--and this silly presumptuousness from Rep. Kevin Priola audio above against a Mesa State employee solely on the basis of his union membership, we're guessing that Republicans won't make that complaint again.
So Much for "Respecting Witnesses"
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But when you pare away the sentimentality, when you realise that sumptuous as the scenery is it does not pay the mortgage, you appreciate that farming is the fulcrum of rural life, the pivot that makes everything else possible.
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London, at the chill break of day, when the overhanging clouds were yet charged with the 'inky' purple of night -- in order, like a true book-chevalier, to embrace the first dank impression, or proof sheet, of his own famous octavo edition of _Shakspeare_; and of Mr. Bulmer's sumptuous impression of the text of the same.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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Being in temperate mood that morning, I described that as "presumptuousness".
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ERICH!
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The catalogue which accompanies this exhibition is as sumptuous as the show itself.
The Times Literary Supplement
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One of the later tracks on "Jungle Music," a startlingly spare and sumptuous remix of Strafe's "Set It Off," helped divine so-called electro and house music, and remains an unimpeachable classic from New York's musical underground in the 1980s.
Rescuing a Disco Demigod From Oblivion
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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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The sumptuous suite was an upgrade from the hotel after a booking mix-up, he said.
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The fact that their followers themselves do not have the intelligence to exercise even only the right of suffrage makes the presumptuousness much more ridiculous.
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A road movie that begins someway between a sumptuous travelogue and a light-hearted romp quickly develops into something much more significant.
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A certain presumptuousness and overestimation, derived from Calvinism, made them almost sound like proselytising preachers.
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At their most lighthearted, the duo's bouncy ditties are anchored by sumptuous harmonies and effervescent acoustic guitar, mandolin and dulcimer.
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I have to admire their persistence in the face of overwhelming odds of getting laughed off the beach, if not pantsed and having their lunch money taken away, but that's more than offset by the revulsion generated in response to the smug arrogance and presumptuousness of these missionaries.
Where Would Jesus Spend Spring Break?
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Like most Disney movies it is visually sumptuous and plays on the heartstrings, but we left feeling a little underwhelmed.
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With its lush scenery, vivid colours and sweeping vistas, the film is a sumptuous feast for the eyes.
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The celebrity guests turned up dressed in sumptuous evening gowns.
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He accompanied them, with all the grandees of the court, as far as to the Escurial, which is a famous royal palace not far from Madrid, built and furnished in the most sumptuous style of magnificence and splendor.
Charles I Makers of History
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Although his orchestra isn't the most refined and sumptuous, they play with character.
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Don't worry - they look exactly the same, with their chain-link tread, ribbed rubber bootie, and sumptuous leather cuffs.
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For pastors, it feels a bit presumptuous to say yes.
Christianity Today
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And so the population was gradually led into the demoralising temptations of arcades, baths, and sumptuous banquets.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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Felix's presumptuous action is barely less nettlesome than his withholding and patronizing behavior toward a teenage student who develops a crush on him.
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Ramadan is followed by Iftar, a sumptuous banquet where friends and family gather to celebrate the break of fast.
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Even if you're not among the official 3,500 guests who will partake of the sumptuous, four-course wedding dinner orchestrated by the Louis XV's three-Michelin star chef Alain Ducasse all the vegetables will be plucked fresh from the prince's private garden the night before, you can still sample Mr. Ducasse's trademark gastro-morphing of southern French and Ligurian peasant food.
To Catch a View in Monaco
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The rooms are sumptuously furnished with fine art and decoration.
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Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin.
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Proclaiming a National Fast Day in 1863, he suggested, in full prophetic voice, that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People. . .
The Chosen Peoples
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With the possible exception of Motherless Brooklyn (which I loved and re-read to savor the sheer sumptuousness of its prose) Chronic City is his best yet.
Chronic City: Summary and book reviews of Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem.
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The portraits and sumptuous ornaments, and the gold clock, show that this is not just any old front room.
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I would like to try something a bit presumptuous.
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He stared up at the sumptuous portrait, a shimmering mix of oil overlaid with silver and gold leaf.
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Some had sumptuous, lush growths while others, despite great care and attention, managed nothing more than a light fluff.
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Younger sister Meimei handles the coffee, while all dishes are prepared in advance by elder sister Wenwen, a born chef, to provide diners with quick and sumptuous meals.
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For the most sumptuous layering for relaxing at home, wear slouchy drawstring trousers, cami and an oversized wrap-around cardigan in grey marl cashmere mix.
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The bedrooms were not quite as sumptuous, but still very comfortable, and came supplied with fluffy towelling robes, which was a nice touch.
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Bedrooms have high, corniced ceilings and classical furnishings, and suites - which include the Imperial, one of Europe's most expensive - justify the label ‘sumptuous’.
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But, having admitted all that, there is one thing that the Europeans do know and can put forward without presumptuousness: It is that power does not necessarily lead to victory.
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While couples can marry legally without such a ceremony, only a grand wedding with a series of events over several weeks will maintain family honour in a society where the sumptuousness of the party is closely monitored by the neighbours.
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The drawing room sets the sumptuous tone for the whole castle.
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This required HUD to change the rules prohibiting any frills -- such as gables, cornices or materials more sumptuous than brick -- that might enhance the surroundings of welfare recipients at the expense of taxpayers.
Toppling Towers
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Patrick Bingham-Hall's sumptuous photographs certainly made me wish I had the cashflow to be welcomed into these sensual, sybaritic spaces.
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Regarding themselves as "pashas," they displayed themselves "drawn in carriages with six horses, surrounded byguards; sitting at sumptuous tables with thirty covers, eating tothe sound of music, with a following of players, courtezans, and mercenaries ....
The Psychology of Revolution
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Rose growers exhibited sumptuous displays within the floral pavilion, as usual, but the large show gardens barely featured them at all.
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Would it be presumptuous of me to ask you to contribute?
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The gods were wroth at so presumptuous an offer, but when they would have indignantly driven the stranger from their presence, Loki urged them to make a bargain which it would be impossible for the stranger to keep, and so they finally told the architect that the guerdon should be his, provided the fortress were finished in the course of a single winter, and that he accomplished the work with no other assistance than that of his horse Svadilfare.
Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas
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The truth is that, at present, I only have to lift my eyes by ten degrees and I have a sumptuous panoramic view of a building site.
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The sumptuous fabric oozes style and the high street is brimming with soft tops, trousers and dresses.
The Sun
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On the contrary, he grew presumptuous on success; and when he printed his performance, the dedication to the Earl of Norwich was directly levelled against the poet-laureate who termed it the “most arrogant, calumniatory, ill-mannered, and senseless preface he ever saw.” [
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
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At the same time the passion for collecting grew, and many nobles displayed their sumptuous collections in long galleries, which superseded the studioli of Renaissance collectors.
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Think luxe fabrics like velvet and brocade teamed with sumptuous bows and frills.
The Sun
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Without any knowledge of history, he was somehow able through his natural ruttishness to reinvent the complex and indulgent habits of an Eastern potentate, one of those Ottoman pashas, right down to holding court halfnaked in his sumptuous bedroom.
Beard
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In hindsight it was all a bit presumptuous.
The Sun
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The realistic description of the sumptuous banquet in B1 and the wide range of Xenophanes 'reported geographical and geological interests all sit poorly with an Eleatic
Xenophanes
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Or were you perhaps a little presumptuous and overbearing?
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Another sumptuous move preceded this.
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After the tea and pleasantries had been dispensed with, Quiller-Couch launched his usual preemptive, presumptuous air strike.
Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids
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This is a sumptuously filmed series and the commentary is informed and well read.
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With its sumptuous bouquet of sunny neroli, ripe, nectarous rose and jasmine and sweet, powdery violet and iris, and a languid, expansive feel of the composition, Baghari stays true to the grand and insolent spirit of the rest of the Piguet collection.
Archive 2007-08-01
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Now, my dear, regale us with your description of the sumptuous desserts available to us on this, our Lord's natal day.
AMERICAN GODS
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This visually sumptuous exhibition brings together some of the finest paintings the artist produced while in Britain.
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From Hong Kong to Honduras, and from South Africa to Scottsdale, I have spa-ed, soaked, swum, wined and dined in palatial hotels and resorts with perfect beds, sumptuous bathrooms, impeccable service and world-class designer décor.
Judie Fein: From Five Star to Farm: How About a Little Agritourism?
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The other 11 rooms are a bit cramped, though have the same sumptuous fabrics and comfort levels as public rooms.
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From sumptuous love music to thrilling martial outbursts, he makes you want to sit through all five hours again.
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Fish and prawn kababs in mint and garlic chutney and squid fritters in hot garlic sauce whet the palate for the sumptuous spread.
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I followed this with a karahai methi keema and a range of side dishes including saag paneer and brinjal bhaji which were simply sumptuous.
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This rambling home has a sumptuous interior and manicured grounds but is not particularly close to any large urban centres.
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She acts sweet, kind and nice on the outside, but inside she's as rude and presumptuous as I am.
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A sumptuous Russian sleigh drawn by two splendid black horses, with a statuesque driver in ebony handling the ribbons, attracted the attention of the crowd as it dashed down the avenue and paused near the capitol steps.
Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice
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Being bold and presumptuous, which is rude or arrogant.
CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2008
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At another church is a kind of catacomb for the Earls of Kent: there are ten sumptuous monuments.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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And, many years after the end of slavery, a worse residue was left in the form of prejudice and hatred; in other words, there remained a kind of presumptuousness which was passed on from generation to generation in those sectors.
TELEVISION DISCUSSION OF CASTRO WITH RODRUGUEZ
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The interior is decorated in sumptuous reds and golds.
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Much the same could be said of a meal which started outstandingly with two sumptuous starters.
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She produces elegant wedding gowns in a variety of sumptuous fabrics.
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It is, in a way , presumptuous for a foreigner to teach Spanish.
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The sumptuous productions of the 1980s were considered by the Met management to be an investment and found the enthusiastic support of major sponsors.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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This sumptuous, warm all seasons duvet will keep you at an ideal temperature throughout the seasons.
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Think luxe fabrics like velvet and brocade teamed with sumptuous bows and frills.
The Sun
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Would it be presumptuous of me to ask you to contribute?
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Even then, the term sumptuousness may seem ill-chosen, since the nomadic nature of African life persists in spite of palaces and chamberlains and all the elaborate ritual of the Makhzen, and the most pompous rites are likely to end in a dusty gallop of wild tribesmen, and the most princely processions to tail off in a string of half-naked urchins riding bareback on donkeys.
In Morocco
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It's all rather presumptuous to offer your opinion when you don't really know the person very well.
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Or were you perhaps a little presumptuous and overbearing?
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And this peaceful studio with its rural horizon was at once filled with a surfeit of delight such as a child might feel in a house where he was already happily playing when he learned that, in addition, out of that bounteousness which enables lovely things and noble hosts to increase their gifts beyond all measure, there was being prepared for him a sumptuous repast.
Within a Budding Grove
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The truth is that, at present, I only have to lift my eyes by ten degrees and I have a sumptuous panoramic view of a building site.
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Exuding a quiet confidence, he is obviously somebody who is sure of his own abilities, yet unpresumptuous about what the future might hold.
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Being the presumptuous boy he was, he thought he would be coming inside my house.
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Susan lives in the sumptuous 2-bedroom apartment next door to Bug's seedy bachelor "bedsitter.
Microserfs
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T sumptuously stock nasdaq on the busybodied liability the antigone sphacele, upstairs the voicer upscale conspicuously grandmother of the syracuse of the trolling.
Rational Review
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There is a presumptuousness that the world should be doing everything that they are saying.
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Slip in an audio disc and the sound astounds, with sumptuous bass and smooth vocals.
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The first obvious answer is that, as anyone who has seen it can testify, it is just a sumptuous feast for the eyes.
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Next is a sumptuously textured, very abstract picture of three katsinas whose blurry appearance represents the intermediary between the spiritual and physical world.
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Ride a historic shipjack or end the day with a sumptuous meal of Maryland crabs.
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Rose growers exhibited sumptuous displays within the floral pavilion, as usual, but the large show gardens barely featured them at all.
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Afterward, when the bells rung to Mattines, the Sexton entring the Church with a light in his hand (where hee beheld a light of greater splendor) and suddenly espied the sumptuous bedde there standing: not only was he smitten into admiration, but hee ranne away also very fearefully.
The Decameron
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Think luxe fabrics like velvet and brocade teamed with sumptuous bows and frills.
The Sun
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Sumptuous buildings rise up from the wooded hillsides, the four-storey mansions are festooned with shapely balconies and are as curvaceous as an Edwardian belle.
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Maison Gerard, meanwhile, show a sumptuous pair of Jules Leleu commodes from the 1940s, covered in white shagreen and with sycamore interiors, gilt-bronze mounts and coral-red lacquer tops.
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One must, I suppose, consider the wishes of the tourist; and the show does, with its musical song-and-dance numbers and sumptuous, skin-tight scaly costumery.
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The sumptuous rooms have exposed stone walls.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then he bade bring forth money and apparel and clad them in sumptuous robes of honour and showered largesse upon them, wherefore they all loved him and obeyed him.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Chuck Freilich, a former Israeli National Security advisor, castigates the J Streeters '"presumptuousness" and claims they think they "know better what is right for Israel" than the Israelis.
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The sumptuous fabric oozes style and the high street is brimming with soft tops, trousers and dresses.
The Sun
