The return of florals and chintz is also a reflection of a new opulence and conspicuous consumption in interiors. |
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If we take her unaffectionate term to mean a kind of stately opulence resulting in cinematic impotence, she has succeeded. |
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A generation of consumers accustomed to ripe, sweeter fleshy wines from the new world will be astonished at the sheer opulence of these wines. |
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Combined with sundeck, swimming pool and sprung sitting room flooring for dancing, these touches might have pushed opulence towards showiness. |
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There are gorgeous scenery locations and magnificent sets and a real sense of opulence to the production, as if no expense was spared. |
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His wasp-waisted, long-limbed figures express the era's aspirations and opulence with disarming force. |
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I was wonderstruck when I learnt that the place now known as Silicon Valley once had an opulence of orchards. |
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Canopies, finely executed pillars, draperies folded in gentle scallops and garlands lend to her pictures an aura of opulence. |
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Despite its opulence, however, Zhang's house pales by comparison to that of his cousin, Zhang Shiming. |
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Early Victorian taste favoured opulence and eclecticism, so exhibition showpieces coexisted with simpler, compact items like Windsor chairs. |
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The opulence of the architectural style seems to epitomize the spirit of the nineteenth century. |
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The camera enters rooms of spectacular opulence, where men and women converse. |
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There's a vague radical unease about the vaingloriousness and opulence of it all. |
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The Italian-inspired architecture of the baroque period reflects a combination of religious piety and worldly opulence. |
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Out in the warm, sea-scented evening, a stroll through the town shows that the opulence of the Palais is matched by other huge houses. |
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He did not mind the opulence, the smoke that permeated the place or the servants that hurried to and fro. |
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Media shift the responsibility for sensationalized coverage to a prurient citizenry's market demands for more blood, gore and opulence. |
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Instead of showing the rich opulence of harvest that Dutch still life aimed to portray, his paintings outline our consumer culture. |
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The woman smiled with ambivalence and walked in, surveying the familiar opulence of his house, the shrine to his success. |
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And beyond the glitter of opulence, it must also glow with the burnish of remembrance, light up with the luster of nostalgia. |
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Dream of arabesques, arches and India ink. Revel in intense opulence, iridescent threads, the sheen of brushed silver. |
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Its very opulence destined it to a life in mostly book form. |
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With their high-keyed fresh colours and opulence, they have affinities with European Renaissance and Baroque idioms. |
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I tend to edulcorate my space in order to accentuate emptiness over opulence. |
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When they talk about pattern and pace, do they mean a pattern of opulence and fast living? |
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Even those who don't have a flutter are prone to gawking at the opulence and garishness that's paraded in front of them. |
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In the mouth what comes straight away is the opulence with fleshiness in the middle. |
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Yet the prankish air of the endeavor lingers. Of course, what most travellers crave is an alternative to opulence. |
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The quality of the Shore, as it is called, ranges from the urban garishness of Asbury Park to the opulence of Deal and Mantoloking. |
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Particularly the interior décor that dates back to the years between 1710 to 1759 overwhelms the churchgoer with its splendour and opulence. |
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The publication is a new media highlight which, in the jury's opinion, could rapidly develop into a collector's item by virtue of its opulence. |
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In this work, Tharp transforms the opulence of 19th-century classicism into electricity and light. |
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It also fuels anger among the mass of Kenyans, who resent the opulence of the political elite. |
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As the visitor's guidebook admits, the present restoration can do little more than hint at the former opulence of the Courtaulds' way of life. |
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Notman successfully portrayed the dramatic lines of the Italianate stone structure and the restrained opulence of the interiors. |
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By combining sovereign understatement, a touch of opulence and the state-of-the-art technology, it forms an entirely new dimension. |
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The opulence of this decoration and the use of a wide range of decorative motifs is in the spirit of the Second Empire grandiose decors. |
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Birds were a favoured ornamental motif and the filigree technique maintained the lightness of the subject without compromising their opulence. |
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We were always shown that Europeans all lived like princes amid opulence and abundance. |
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The female kozácký costume is distinguished by the opulence of its floral embroideries. |
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Families, bred in opulence and luxury, were reduced to beggary. |
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The scale, opulence and fantasy so prevalent a few miles away on the Strip is nowhere to be found. |
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The opulence of the gifts is legendary, and it used to be that the presenters and performers at the ceremony also received them. |
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It is an earnest belief in a 1980s opulence that translates into an aesthetic of social isolationism. |
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Here, once again, the opulence of the city puts its citizens under enormous pressures to capitulate to a life style of wantonness and shameless disregard. |
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It describes the opulence and theatricality of the Bourbon court. |
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He claims the cooperation came from people who are fed up with the corruption and opulence displayed by many Afghan officials. |
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As befits the theme and Gluck's intentions, the sets and costumes forego the company's usual baroque opulence for the clean lines of neoclassicism. |
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But there are few cases of ostentatious opulence amid the poverty. |
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Every deficiency is magnified, the feelings of loneliness, poverty, and hopelessness casting long and cold shadows over the snow in the face of the opulence of the chosen few. |
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The columned lobby which doubles as the main office, spells opulence. |
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We are in the era of guarded opulence and while heads are rolling in town, a certain level of indulgence continues to continue in Napoleon's France. |
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Instead, opulence breeds discontentment and eventual self-destruction. |
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Is located in Wihr-au-Val, where the Gewurztraminer and Pinot Gris wines grow particularly well. The soil, composed of granite and clay, offers them their opulence, complexity and extreme exquisiteness. |
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The opulence of George Stephen's mansion is even more incredible when compared to the dismal conditions in which most of the working class of Montreal lived at that time. |
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Is it really necessary to outlaw growth in the emerging world, under the pretext that our own oasis of opulence has already wrought havoc with the climate? |
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The spirit of the troops was indeed affected by military setbacks and by the attitude of the leaders of the movement, who lived in opulence while the delays in service pays accumulated. |
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Religion, societal organization and the search for opulence are the three somewhat analyzable dimensions of the underlying evolutionary process. |
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In both the orchestral and especially the piano compositions, there is often an additional element of virtuosity, an unabashed attempt to mesmerize the audience with sheer pyrotechnics, colourful displays and sonic opulence. |
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Airlines have been contacting my office to ensure that they will play a greater role in influencing terminal design in order to reduce costs and possibly opulence. |
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The argument is essentially between austerity and opulence. |
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In the mouth, the wine has an opulence and fleshiness rarely achieved. |
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While the basic melody and harmony are unaltered, exquisite chromatic passing notes are added, lending increased opulence to the texture and the expression. |
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Something that money cannot buy and this opulence cannot provide? |
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The wealth generated is distributed for the benefit of the ruling classes, resulting in general hardship and a yawning gap between the average standard of living and the opulence of the elites who hold power. |
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Extremely full-bodied, with an unctuosity and opulence that must be tasted to be believed, this velvety-textured wine's finish lasts for over a minute. |
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The décor's inspiration is a blend of Tang dynasty opulence and Art Deco. |
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A 20-metre long fresco shows different ways of eating in the world, from eating for survival to rites and beliefs, table manners, social relations, opulence and poverty. |
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Situated among the snow-capped peaks of the Canadian Rockies, The Fairmont Banff Springs blends opulence and seclusion and has been an emblem of Rocky Mountain majesty for more than a hundred years. |
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A large prominent cross within the dome and a cross vault in the apse essentially make up its interior decoration, the sobriety of which stands out against the opulence of its exterior ornaments. |
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However everything here has been redesigned according to the taste and fashion of the Second Empire in a spirit of opulence and extreme refinement. |
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Its target was the new breed of maharajah produced by India's liberalised economy: flush, flash, and growing in number. Other purveyors of opulence followed, from Chanel to Bulgari. |
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The opulence the Louis XV style is expressed in this mantel: deeply curved lines with a wealth of carved motifs underlined by the veins of the marble. |
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Despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers-perhaps the majority-of people. |
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This is much more than a statistic: it is a child, it is a mother dying in a poor county despite the opulence in which the developed countries are living. |
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All the colors and opulence of a unique cultural heritage offered to you. |
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As the Christmas season creeps ever closer so does the opulence trend. |
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Guests staying at Melhana can experience the opulence firsthand as they sleep in rooms decorated with fresh flowers and furnished with four-poster beds and antique highboys. |
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In the 1920s he earned a reputation as part of a brash new generation, but his mature music struck a balance between Elgarian opulence and Stravinskian modernism. |
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This will mean fighting for the rights of the underclass as well as questioning the often extravagant opulence of the overclasses in the presence of poverty. |
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