He was said to have tried to suborn the young king with lavish presents and urged him to exert his authority. |
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The film's few saving graces are its lavish costumes and the sporadic funny moments, usually delivered by one of the marginal characters. |
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Proud owners had customised their scooters and many sported gleaming chromework, multiple wing mirrors and lavish paintwork. |
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His essential wide-boy baddiness would be lost underneath the head-dresses and panstick of a more lavish production. |
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At Christmastide 1617-18 he held a lavish entertainment to mark his restoration of Winchester House in Southwark. |
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How we then found room for the lavish selection of cheeses, pear chutney and home-made warm oatcakes is still a mystery. |
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For all you know, their lavish lifestyle may be financed by a string of debts. |
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These cliff-like structures tower above the pavement, presenting a lavish display of cut-stone decoration and detail. |
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Its employees take home bigger paychecks and more lavish benefits than most of the city's private employees. |
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He was peppered with many questions about the big houses and lavish living that are often displayed in American music videos and television. |
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He designed a series of lavish public celebrations to cement this image in the public imagination. |
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For favored employees, there are lavish perks and lots of opportunities for advancement. |
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No expense is spared on costumes, which are lavish and made in-house, often to designs commissioned from artists and stars of the fashion world. |
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Meanwhile the factory of Joseph Terry and Sons Ltd was transformed by a lavish display of festoons, streamers and flags. |
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Shopping is a big past-time and the malls are lavish constructions with lifts, fountains and plenty of open coffee shops. |
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She wore a lavish lilac fishtail dress made especially for the occasion by her mum. |
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From the clerical perspective, the lavish liturgical choir never received the counterpoise of an extended processional approach. |
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She dedicated her lavish folio volume, in large print, to her brother-in-law, Sir Charles Cavendish, in gratitude. |
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Cowboys and cowgirls dressed in lavish Western attire vied for attention and prizes. |
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As long as there are weddings there will always be a market for extravagant and lavish creations. |
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A lavish buffet was laid out and of course drinks flowed freely, putting everyone in a happy mood. |
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Typical of London houses, the plain front concealed the elaborate interior that was needed for lavish entertaining. |
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Departing from his predecessor's frugality, he provided lavish games for the Romans to enjoy, and abolished the sales tax. |
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In the name of promoting sales through currying favour with the right people, some business people throw lavish dinners. |
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The production values of the edition were lavish and were widely praised by reviewers. |
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Morocco especially has received lavish praise for its recent efforts and quite rightly so. |
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His surrounding avenues of domestic architecture have the low density and lavish planting that he derived from English garden cities. |
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Twenty years of blockbusters have deadened audiences to the excitement of big armies and lavish effects. |
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His aqua eyes twinkled in the moonlight like gemstones on a lavish piece of jewelry. |
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The Rococo style, characterized by lavish ornamentation, organic forms and the use of gilding, grew to its height in 18th century France. |
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She championed the classics, with lavish productions of Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. |
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She gives lavish dinner parties when entertaining her husband's business friends. |
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I use it on my lips, gloss it on my eyebrows, rub it into dry skin, use as hand and foot cream and, on long flights, lavish it under my eyes. |
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Despite what the lavish government publicity campaign says, nothing has changed. |
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This book is an appropriately lavish celebration, but less gush would have improved it. |
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Luxury and lavish living were seen as the causes, moral decay and dissolution as the consequences. |
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For example, instead of putting a lavish bed into the bedroom we bought a standard divan bed and had a headboard made. |
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During the silent era, Italian cinema became famous for its lavish historical epics. |
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The BBC follows its heady drama with a lavish new drama-documentary this autumn. |
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For drumming this lethal message into our heads media commissars are rewarded with lavish salaries, status and privilege. |
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You're bound to know if she's watching her weight, and if she is, she won't want huge, lavish boxes of chocs that she can't resist. |
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He seems to be on the verge of agreeing in this lavish, Waspish enterprise. |
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She has a lot of lavish, wasteful spending in her budget in particular, and I'd like to cut that. |
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The guests, a small cluster of family and friends, then assembled for a lavish wedding breakfast. |
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The house has highly decorated interiors with lavish plasterwork, inlaid floors and exquisite joinery. |
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The Swedes have a lavish welfare state married to a healthy economy and the best social mobility in the world. |
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In the evening he served a lavish meal of goat and rice, and gave us directions to where we could find his sons and camels. |
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Yes, she's gone to an awful lot of trouble to assemble all your favourite people and prepare a lavish spread. |
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Arias, recitatives and choruses all profit from his lavish and quite astounding musico-theatrical imagination. |
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No expense had been spared in the ballroom itself, where the tables had been laid for a lavish banquet. |
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With its detailed narrative, lavish photography and all-star cast, this was more of a short film than an ad. |
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The lucky quartet have now been happily rehoused in conditions much more lavish than they were used to. |
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Geneva had wanted a lavish one, filled with gifts and smiles, dance and music, and food that tasted of ambrosia. |
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Let's face it, we're not getting any younger and we all have to think about our lavish lifestyles, after our careers are over. |
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You know the big lavish parties with corporate largesse paying a lot of money. |
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It would be hard to find a buyer who would lavish the same degree of attention on the Anaglypta. |
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Ngaanyatjarra is an especially rich and lavish language, both in its grades of meaning and its structure and its sound. |
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The dinner and drinking party was a favourite theme in the lavish paintings which adorned their tombs. |
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After the meeting, the resort laid on a lavish Hawaiian style buffet on the beachfront. |
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Only in sports do we generally find plush, sumptuous, lavish condominium accommodations. |
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The buildings in the Arts District were all designed with fancy and expensive, lavish architecture. |
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The Queen will get things under way on Thursday night at a lavish opening ceremony. |
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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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The perfect spot for calm and quiet intimacy before more lavish dinners, drinks and dancing on the upper floors. |
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There was an unending search for blockbusters that depended on lavish sets and costly special effects, to draw crowds into the cinema halls. |
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The directors' lavish lifestyles and sumptuous houses on the outskirts of Sydney raised the heckles of the Australian public. |
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There were various celebrations honoring the gods, often accompanied by lavish banquets. |
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Sometimes they cannot afford much, and in times of crisis, even when they are lavish it does not feel like enough. |
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He was a lavish philanthropist, endowing hospitals and libraries as well as the famous art gallery. |
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They're not extravagant or lavish, really, but he runs into the kitchen and stands on my feet every time he hears me open the cupboard. |
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The lavish praise is only possible because the book note is riddled with factual errors and misleading innuendo from start to finish. |
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It's not the affection that she enjoys, but rather the lavish gifts that are tossed her way. |
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If you're not ready to spoil your pet with lavish gifts and gourmet treats just yet, start small. |
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The new team, despite being warned, bestowed lavish gifts upon that one man. |
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A husband not believing in spending much on gifts is usually mated to a woman who believes in giving lavish gifts as tokens of love. |
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In some parts of the country, where children's parties are big business, youngsters can leave with lavish gifts. |
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Ancient Babylon, with its glistening towers and lavish horticultural cascades, must once have inspired similar reverential whispers. |
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And why would executives that are enjoying a lavish lifestyle be sending alarm signals? |
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The complacent frivolity of its lavish mosaics suggests that the declining Roman empire had no apprehensions of imminent fall. |
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The wealthy prince summons her to his island paradise for a royally lavish wedding. |
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This was where he threw lavish shikar parties for his guests, mainly other royalty and British dignitaries. |
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I can already imagine what a total stuck up and arrogant idiot the prince is, just by looking at his lavish and loopy signature. |
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Extravagant weddings, lavish dinner parties, luxurious luncheons, you name it and I attended it. |
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Now, if you are looking for white linen tablecloths and lavish meals served on fine china, you won't find it in discount business class. |
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Teaming a humble fabric such as felt or towelling with a more lavish material such as silk or taffeta is a technique she frequently uses. |
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Even more lavish is the House of the Messii, with the magnificent marble floor in its main reception room. |
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The Mosteiro dos Jeronimos is the pinnacle of his lavish commissioning and of Manueline architecture, a curiously elaborated version of Gothic. |
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Despite huge initiatives and lavish spending, vast stretches of Asia and Africa continue to be afflicted by the scourges of hunger and disease. |
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The better ones will lavish you with tiny containers of balms, lotions and other sweet-smelling potions. |
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Like all sites conceived as digital brochures, it has far too much text which includes an overly lavish encomium by a Sunday newspaper scribe. |
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You pass through plush red velvet drapes into a lavish room of gorgeous banquettes, bookcases and bare concrete walls. |
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This massive book with its lavish illustrations of gorgeous furniture and interiors whets the appetite for more on the subject. |
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It looked as lavish as they usually do and seated you as uncomfortably as they usually do. |
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Thus, despite the proliferation of incredibly lavish kitchens, fewer and fewer Americans are at home even at mealtimes. |
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The sets are expensive, the lifestyle lavish, the charm oozy and the dialogue throwaway. |
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Extravagant, self-indulgent and impulsive, the teenage King led a very glamorous, lavish lifestyle. |
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The tequila fills the mouth with a lavish array of warm flavors, largely floral and semi-sweet spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla. |
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To suggest that it could have happened as a belated reaction to a pre-election budget, no matter how lavish, simply beggars belief. |
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Photos of her apparently lavish lifestyle on her microblog triggered suspicions that the organisation's funds had been misappropriated. |
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They are known for their lavish and eccentric parties, so we expect nothing less from their wedding shindig. |
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These church leaders adorn themselves with grand mitres, cloaks and sceptres whilst living and working in lavish and luxurious surroundings. |
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Other important historical contexts for lavish works of this kind were the splendid funerary shrouds placed in royal burials. |
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Later, the sign was replaced by a new one, just as lavish, on which the message was printed in larger type. |
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To the right of her was a lavish dining room, and to the left was a library with an uncountable number of books. |
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A precious opium-eating den, with a boudoir for hire and an elegant powder room, this hangout is lavish and otherworldly. |
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Imagine nature's bounty matching up to the lavish interiors of the chateau. |
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When I'm not working, I go out for lavish lunches with my friends, drink too much, and spend the afternoons trying to sober up. |
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Backed by a 40-piece orchestra loaded with bold, brassy horns and lush, lavish strings, you'll certainly pick up on that late '70s sound. |
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Yet for the time they are alive, these carefully bred animals are treated to a lavish lifestyle before they face mortal combat. |
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Specially bred horses were fed and housed in lavish stables and great forts. |
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The International Economic Forum held here on June 7th and 8th was more than just a vanity fair of show-offs and lavish parties. |
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The lavish event was then rounded off nicely with quiet Tequila and Jagermeister nightcaps and jovial banter amongst the attendees. |
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The fertile, irrigated vega to the west provided the Caliphs with a lavish table. |
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I walked into a lavish guest bedroom with a four-poster bed and heavy velour curtains. |
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It was all arranged by her husband Mattie who spared no expense for the lavish night. |
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Conor was celebrating his wedding anniversary and told his wife, Mary he would treat her to lavish meal with no expense spared. |
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The two designs have sometimes been construed as representing a disconcerting shift from the spartan to the lavish. |
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Some of his business failures were as spectacular as his lavish lifestyle, which was legendary. |
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Local residents enjoyed a champagne reception on arrival, a lavish buffet of hot and cold dishes all served with live piano music. |
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Sycophants tend to lavish non-existent virtues on their leader, who may only be a novice. |
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Fiddled expenses, lavish trips and bungled paperwork had become commonplace at the Paris headquarters, a national audit report concluded. |
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It was very lavish and very imposing, a grueling display of majestic splendor. |
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I pulled up to my ex-house and parked in the lavish driveway, buttoning my jacket as I walked up, roses in one hand, keys in the other. |
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His lavish past has left its mark financially, and the creditors are now tightening the metaphorical noose. |
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The former heavyweight champion has squandered nearly 300 million in ring earnings through lavish spending and bad advice. |
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But while lavish in his praise for tonight's visitors to Bootham Crescent, the City chief is adamant his side will not stand on ceremony. |
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The King left the lavish room for the banquet hall, leaving Shyra and Gaiden to finish preparing. |
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Plans for a lavish Christmas wedding have been put on ice while the couple take stock of their 15-month relationship. |
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Louisa walked up the aisle in a lavish full-length dress that featured a cascade of layers of pink tulle. |
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Most of these conglomerates, you'll notice, have spent oodles of money on lavish campuses or office buildings, though. |
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Normally on such trips my notes run to lavish hotel trappings, distances between monuments and the number of oohs and aahs per scenic vista. |
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Despite its faux castellations, it's not a castle at all, it's a lavish high-rise. |
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Thanks to all those factors, fewer people are throwing lavish catered events or dining out at all. |
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For those who spend down their wealth on a lavish and ostentatious lifestyle, there is no tax. |
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This spring, instead of buying your usual boring outerwear, get yourself a lavish, top-stitched dark denim jean jacket. |
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The front room was more of a lounge, with two lavish easy chairs and a chaise lounge formed around a table for guests. |
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It has lavish spectacular moments, lots of local colour, gorgeous settings, beautiful actresses, and some terrible songs. |
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The medium-weight, alembic distilled vodka immediately washes the palate with a lavish array of raspberry flavors that rivals the real thing. |
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He's a regular on the red carpet and known for his lavish parties and glamorous life style. |
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She receives lavish gifts and letters with armorial seals from far-away places, possibly from a lover. |
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True, beyond lavish praise, Los Angeles has always been a place of dreams and metaphors. |
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But it was the landscape that attracted his most lavish praise as they traveled. |
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That gave Ellen a golden opportunity to shower the couple with some pretty lavish baby gifts. |
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I only wish for a small wedding, no gifts or lavish food or gowns, just my family and their blessings. |
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Those on-board enjoyed the new, lavish dining room, savoring excellent cuisine and first-class service. |
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He scrubbed the begrimed garments as best he could until they were as white and as lavish as usual. |
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He creates theatrical sets for the familiar scenes, showcasing the lavish architecture of the holy land. |
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The surveillance team was rewarded with leftovers from the lavish banquets, which were much better than their usual fare. |
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For instance, a carpetmaker can lavish the great wools on his expensive $30 a square yard plush. |
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The store decided to lavish far more attention on the big spenders. |
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He paid lavish praise to the girls for their wonderful liturgy. |
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Over the next three meals, she had steadily turned up the heat, and all he ever did was lavish compliments on the quality and quantity of the food. |
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The sets here are as lavish, the stage action as imaginative, the sound as vivid and balanced, the camera work as all-encompassing as one could wish for in any production. |
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The costumes were lavish, and the articulation of both speech and song was of a clarity I've never before heard for this work in a large auditorium. |
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There were indeed, as former GOP congressman Tom Davis eyed the lavish buffet near former secretary of state Madeleine Albright. |
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Criminals are being warned that they could lose their liberty and their lavish lifestyle thanks to the dedicated efforts of a North Yorkshire Police team. |
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The golden handshakes, the lavish executive salaries, the disregard for worker entitlements, the corporate rorting and the insider deals must end. |
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While more lavish praise tends to be heaped on heels, fans of flat shoes get just as excited about a delicate ballerina or a light-as-Astaire jazz shoe. |
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Such jurisdiction allowed them to gratify their desires for lavish living. |
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Now the church members, and Mpani's co-treasurer, Zameka Dikeni, say that the priest paid for the lavish wedding party and lobola out of church funds. |
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The entire cast joined in a lavish, choreographed opening number and the grand finale, with the chorus line dancing as back-up for the featured acts. |
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People look forward to it like a holiday, place their bets, put on their best professional sports-watching duds and throw lavish Super Bowl parties. |
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His ready-to-wear was often created with the lavish attention to detail and the handcrafted quality normally reserved for couture. |
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Both are fully illustrated, but Hofmann's lavish reproductions, in larger format and often with details enlarged still further, are the most useful. |
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After years of upping the stakes with larger booths, more lavish parties and fancy tchotchkes, some exhibitors are putting the brakes on wild spending. |
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Traditional Burns suppers are lavish affairs with classic dishes such as Scotch broth, followed by haggis, neeps and tatties and perhaps a cloutie dumpling or Scots trifle. |
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With soldierly magnanimity, Khan returned most of the lavish gifts given him by the king. |
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He made no apologies for his rackety lifestyle, his liking for louche and even sleazy companions, his lavish consumption of cigars, brandy and champagne. |
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America's first president threw lavish pies full of pastries and whiskey for friends and servants alike. |
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Because of this, the top-end hotels have had to distinguish themselves with lavish spending on innovative modern design and eye-catching architecture. |
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As for the other end of the age spectrum, there's a lavish supply of players who have yet to be legally eligible to belly up to the bar in most parts of the country. |
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The government must have been sorely tempted by offers of lavish U.S. aid. |
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In what must have been music to the ears of the tourism managers here, a couple of leading upcountry magazines were lavish in their praise for the State's tourism initiatives. |
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Among mestizos and other indigenous peoples, weddings are lavish affairs. |
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The months ahead seem rife with arduous ER shifts, lavish vacations with bosom friends and endless opportunities to glam up for nocturnal lounging. |
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Gone were the lavish decorations that had adorned the walls to celebrate their arrival that first time, but even so it was still far too overly decorated for Matthew's taste. |
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What if we'd been hearing the waltzes and mazurkas as china figurines in a glass cabinet, and the songs without words as lavish furnishings without vulgar display? |
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He also lives the kind of lavish lifestyle that also doesn't come cheaply. |
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The venue is purpose built for rituals and ceremonies, with appropriately fabulous acoustics, lavish trimmings and colourfully costumed officiants. |
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For every well-done and lavish musical number, there have been countless appalling elements each week. |
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There was also a live concert of indigenous music and a lavish banquet. |
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The company last year announced it is considering plans to build a lavish new headquarters in Stamford. |
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They are generous, petty, lavish with their opinions, open-hearted. |
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He threw some of the most lavish parties Fort Worth had ever seen. |
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If Imperial Rome had remained faithful to the style of ancient Greece with its vast, lavish buildings, then the Renaissance also favoured this classical style. |
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The impresario William Wheatley used lavish sets and costumes imported from Europe and the innovative stage effects included calcine lights and sophisticated machinery. |
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Keep in mind that it is far better to offer an activity that costs less and free to employees than to offer something more lavish and charge employees an admission fee. |
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The bar drips with rococo flourishes, from the ornate marble fireplace to the lavish gilded mirror. |
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This combines ultraconservatism with lavish expense and a gadget fetish. |
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You get home and the last thing on your mind is concocting a lavish meal for two or three or however many of your children deign to put in an appearance for this meal! |
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In the city's lavish beaux-arts facades and lobbies, farewell smooches and the rustle of tipsy last minute fumblings, still linger faintly in the air today. |
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Of course, it could be hard to see that logic through all the lavish weirdness of the proposal. |
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Lobbyists use these trips to lavish bounty on Congressmen, far from prying eyes. |
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There are some who fear that lavish praise equates flattery. |
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Set in the 15th century court of the Duke of Mantua, the opera offers the cast and crew an opportunity to go the full hog with the lavish costumes of the period. |
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The event is being produced on a lavish scale with a mammoth three-tier stage, professionally erected sets, light and sound effects and detailed period costumes. |
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Parts of the lavish costume drama are being filmed at a disused textile mill which has been converted into a Victorian boarding school for the film. |
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He was lavish with her, but not like the movie would have you believe. |
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With their bottom lines at breaking point, companies known for lavish holiday celebrations are downsizing. |
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Food was also in short supply but relatives saved their ration coupons to provide a comparatively lavish reception, complete with a two-tier cake. |
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It is characterized by a greater licence in the use of counterpoint, and by a lavish use of passaggi and acciaccature to express the affetti of this modern music. |
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So even right here in the city you can find the most abominable poverty living almost cheek by jowl with these extraordinary lavish wasteful expenditures. |
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This need not be a problem if they don't get lavish gifts for the godchild and if your other children have godparents who spend special time with them. |
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When his father remarries, Stephen sticks close to his mother, a devoted but unaffectionate woman who keeps him far from his father's lavish life and new family. |
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This is a genuine reflection of his entire approach which in recent days has evoked lavish praise in the financial press on both sides of the English Channel. |
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Other funds paid for their first-class travel or covered lavish gifts. |
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As a newly promoted side, anywhere in the top 10 will earn lavish praise. |
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Laundry was strung on a line across the bow, and on the tarred roll roofing an old dinghy was lashed down, painted with the same lavish decor as her mother ship. |
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Nevertheless, he is represented as financially lavish, though personally frugal when on campaign. |
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Nigerian feasts are colourful and lavish, while aromatic market and roadside snacks cooked on barbecues or fried in oil are plentiful and varied. |
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Presented in a 12in x 12in box with lavish artwork, this deluxe remastering befits a pivotal album of its era. |
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He went to town on his lavish home, creating a fantastical structure with tall castellations and powerful Gothic influences. |
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Moctezuma gave lavish gifts of gold to the Spaniards which, rather than placating them, excited their ambitions for plunder. |
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They married in the June in a lavish Hindu wedding, in a 90-minute ceremony in front of 200 gues ts in Shefali's home town of Nottingham. |
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His cremation was part of a days-long funeral, which started with a lavish procession through the streets of Phnom Penh on Friday. |
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If you're double-booked, one way to decide is to go for the most lavish affair, but they're all said to be costing around the pounds 1m mark. |
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This lavish attention to detail can be seen on this model of a Middlesbro ugh steam ship, reflecting the pride of workmanship at the shipyard. |
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The train is lavish in a rich cream color and measures 11.8 feet. |
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While fans of the radio show may miss its fractious energy they should be appeased by the lavish illustrations and bountiful in-jokes. |
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Although born in Holland, he's a lavish spender who's never heard of a Dutch treat. |
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Fresh spices and the woody aroma of orris root are combined for an adventurous yet lavish scent with top notes of tonka bean and Jamaican coffee. |
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It is no proof of generosity to take the bread of the laborer, to lavish it in banquetings on the rich. |
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Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship. |
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My selfe, that am so broad-mouthed and lavish in speeches, am notwithstanding naturally touched with that bashfulnesse. |
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The emperor gave them lavish gifts in gold which enticed them to plunder vast amounts. |
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Modern historians and editors of Bede have been lavish in their praise of his achievement in the Historia Ecclesiastica. |
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These people nevertheless live a lavish lifestyle, enjoying the company of the great artists of the time. |
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Henry met Francis I on 7 June 1520 at the Field of the Cloth of Gold near Calais for a fortnight of lavish entertainment. |
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But it was really when the book was turned into a lavish blockbuster in 1992 that the vampire lifestylers came into their own. |
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The nuptials are usually followed by a lavish and joyous wedding reception, often including several hundred guests. |
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James's more lavish presentation of portraits had its effect on the quality of the work from the Hilliard workshop. |
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Bakshi, a bungling Indian actor who accidentally receives an invitation to a lavish Hollywood dinner party. |
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She left her fiance Olivier Delaloye and married Faldo in July 2001 in a lavish ceremony at his Windsor home. |
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As a result, few but only the wealthy could purchase his lavish works, mainly due to how intrinsic his work was. |
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The opening night party was a lavish affair, attended by six hundred celebrities. |
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Glasgow merchants made such fortunes that they adopted the style of aristocrats in their superior manner and in their lavish homes and churches. |
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He received lavish donations from the wealthy families of Rome, who, following his own example, were eager, by doing so, to expiate their sins. |
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He achieved this through various means of generosity and a cutting back of lavish excess. |
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On the day of the festivities, the Flavian family rode into the capital, preceded by a lavish parade that displayed the spoils of the war. |
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He was neither corrupt nor did he make a lavish display of his power or status. |
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Mills of this period were large, their decoration was lavish reflecting Edwardian taste and prosperity. |
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Melissa got her wish to have a lavish living space for Bailey, an 11-year-old German shorthaired pointer. |
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The sin tax is an established tactic. In the early 1500s, Pope Leo X underwrote his lavish lifestyle in part by taxing licensed prostitutes. |
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The mermaid-silhouette skirt featured the same lavish beading and tiers of accordion pleats which climaxed in an accordion-pleated train. |
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The Achaemenian kings welcomed the new year, and the advent of spring, with lavish court receptions and exchanges of gifts. |
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If she still had young children, Wasserman said, she doubts she'd lavish as much attention as she does on her Yorkies now. |
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The most lavish examples of Medici-inspired art in the choirbooks of Santa Maria del Fiore are found in antiphonary Cod. |
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The brand-new lycra and microfibre collection was unveiled yesterday at a lavish London launch. |
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According to Bustle, the amount is no surprise considering Joffrey Baratheon's lavish taste and the regality of the wedding. |
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In 1894, the lavish Royal Poinciana Hotel opened in Palm Beach, Florida, with rave reviews from wealthy New York tourists who picked oranges in January to their delight. |
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Artisans fashion Powell's antlers into all sorts of products, everything from lavish chandeliers and coffee tables to simple backscratchers and toilet paper holders. |
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Set towards the end of the 19th century, this lavish saga tells the story of her rags-to-riches transformation following her employment at The Paradise department store. |
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That's because, in a smart move, Cadillac offers the Vsport sedan in a version that trades some luxury froufrou for lavish mechanicals and bracing performance. |
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Certain it is that out of the lavish pin-money which her father gave her as a free gift from time to time, she only doled out a meagre allowance to her husband. |
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Some city wards were literally filled with open public playing fields or the backyards of lavish mansions for playing horse polo and cuju football. |
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We attend ritzy private schools and spend our nights at lavish parties. |
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The ensembles had a stately feel to them, and included a range of kurtas, jodhpurs, dhotis and the essential sherwani, styled together with lavish drapes and cummerbands. |
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They understand that the best takeaways from any healthcare business trip should not be measured in terms of its warm location, limitless schwag or lavish receptions. |
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We ate at the lavish Hotel Sangho and the nautical-themed Restaurant Haroun, both of which served tasty local dishes from pounds 10, including drinks. |
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One of Borst's current, large-scale outdoor living projects involves a complete landscape redesign with terraces, an in-ground pool, lavish outdoor kitchen and a Florida room. |
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Chef Peter Roelant's sit-down brunch is a lavish meal that includes croissants, chocolate muffins, cornbread, orange-scented butter and natural marmalade. |
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Strict standards developed for ambassadors, requiring they have large residences, host lavish parties, and play an important role in the court life of their host nation. |
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Their home-style collection includes the finest architecture, decorative built-ins, in-law suites, lavish sunrooms, decorative kid's room, marvelous kitchen, etc. |
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To be perceived as scholarly is to pile on the well-researched minutiae, and to lavish on readers a discursion of prior scholarship despite ample coverage in other articles. |
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On the other hand, let's say you've assumed the two of you aren't on gift giving terms yet. Then, out of the blue, your empty-handedness is met by a lavish gift. |
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On the plans to rationalize spending in the state budget, the minister said that the planned measures focus on ending the lavish and unnecessary expenditure. |
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It is a memorable sunset venue for first-rate mezzes or the most lavish grillades and the place to be for late evening lounging and light snacking. |
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The wardrobe mistress from Wicked showed the kids where the nooks and crannies are hidden in the show's lavish costumes to allow the leading ladies to hang from ropes. |
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Their chief men were specially lavish through their desire of good report. |
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Precision Water Jet has been in business since 2004 and has built its reputation on designing and building custom slab counter tops from the simple to the lavish. |
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Henry finally retired from jousting in 1536 after a heavy fall from his horse left him unconscious for two hours, but he continued to sponsor two lavish tournaments a year. |
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The Victorians produced his plays as lavish spectacles on a grand scale. |
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Bedin's eight redingotes were worked in lavish lace and gold filigree threadwork, mounted on padding over crinoline hoops, some with skirts whooshed up like Elizabethan ruffs. |
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The ceiling is a lavish confection of modillion cornice and a centre rose. |
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Ministers are frightful windbags and should only put in an appearance when invited or have something useful to say other than lavish helpings of jam tomorrow. |
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Chicago's bold move into the lavish ceramics and textiles that characterized her own take on Finish Fetish was signposted by her earlier use of industrial processes. |
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Life for the Indian Rhino at the Bewdley park is a lavish one. |
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One such put-on that was reported to us plays off of the tendency of non-disabled students to lavish praise on people in wheelchairs for performing relatively simple tasks. |
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I then moved on to a lavish serving of Berry Crumble and Cherry Clafoutis. |
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When I see Old Swan Library's lavish but flaking half-timbering, I itch to get out my paint scraper and brush to do a bit of remedial work before it is too late. |
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At Windsor, a huge overhaul of the castle produced a lavish palace complex, whose style and detail inspired many subsequent designs in England and Wales. |
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The pair were married at Canterbury Cathedral in January 1236, and Eleanor was crowned queen at Westminster shortly afterwards in a lavish ceremony planned by Henry. |
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In the 1540s king Henry VIII began a campaign of excessive overspending of government money on his lavish lifestyle and to pay for wars with France and Scotland. |
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To establish the new channel's identity and draw viewers to it, the BBC decided that a widely promoted, lavish series would be essential in its earliest days. |
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