sumptuousness

How To Use sumptuousness In A Sentence

• 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
• 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
• As with its companion volumes, "An Egg is Quiet" and "A Seed is Sleepy," graphic design is very much part of the pleasure of this beautiful book, which invites 5- to 10-year-olds to enjoy the variety, complexity and sumptuousness of natural things. Enchanted Gardens, Wherever You Look
• It would be madness and presumptuousness to even speak of it.
• In a World Cup of spills and surprises, however, presumptuousness does not pay.
• The reaction in Scotland would be outrage at such presumptuousness - so what makes us think we can get away with exactly the sort of thing we've complained about for years?
• More importantly, when the gust of his presumptuousness had blown over, a quick glance around the cabin showed that he had a point.
• That sense of celluloid sumptuousness is tangibly present in 2005's standalone Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent, which tells the story of "child genius" Hubert and his "frightfully, frightfully rich" parents, flighty socialites who own mansions in London and Milan and a "swankily swell house in New York". A life in books: Lauren Child
• Now, I realise the presumptuousness of my thought and understand why they did not fear me.
• Although he places Socrates above everyone else, Alcibiades in his presumptuousness wants to make an exchange between equals; he seeks to swap his own beauty for the other's knowledge.