For all the opulent exoticism of his unique harmony, Alexander Scriabin was nothing if not meticulous about musical form and structure. |
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You could imagine that she only exists within the most glittering, buzzy and opulent of surroundings. |
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Michael chose to use the opportunity of working on the show house to show off his skills at decorating an opulent 18 th century sitting room. |
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He works from an opulent Beverly Hills headquarters, whose inner sanctum was modestly designed to resemble the Oval Office. |
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Wear an embellished belt or glitzy cuffs with a plain knit or skirt, and use black to counterbalance an opulent shoe or bag. |
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That hasn't stopped the monocled Crown Prince, whose opulent lifestyle includes a multi-million-dollar mansion. |
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With its opulent boudoirs, quaint cul-de-sacs and misty train stations, it's not the way France actually looked, but the way we wish it did. |
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This is accompanied by the trend towards opulent styling, mahogany panelling and traditional brassware. |
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He looks a bit like a courier, somewhat out of place in the opulent surroundings. |
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More BMW touches are evident in the interior, which has been spiffed up to truly opulent standards. |
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I knew it was a compliment about something that was buttery rich, deliciously opulent and lip-smacking cool. |
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It's based in the opulent Glasgow hotel, One Devonshire Gardens, thus guaranteeing a steady stream of starry names among the diners. |
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However, the interiors as they appeared after the house was completed in 1902 were rich with color and opulent materials. |
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I bring this to his attention in the opulent comfort of the living room of his Holland Park house. |
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He relishes an opulent lifestyle with palatial homes in Europe and America, private jets, two yachts and a helicopter. |
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This time it was a confectioner's shop, decidedly grandiose and apparently opulent. |
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Beyond the crack, I caught a peak at a room built purely for comfort, decorated so richly as to be almost too opulent. |
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The day after the launch, Mara is sitting in the party's opulent election campaign headquarters in the National Treasury Building. |
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And the hotel's opulent dining rooms, with elaborately decorated gold columns and mirrored walls, serve good food. |
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Once the symbol of a rich legacy, they used to grace the opulent confines of sprawling traditional houses belonging to the aristocratic class. |
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It features opulent sets, exquisite costumes and lush Busby Berkeley-style dance sequences. |
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Bieito's setting is a palatial private bar furnished with black leather chairs and an opulent drinks table. |
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Each location and set is opulent, textured and rich, portraying a period feel while keeping a morbid and often gothic atmosphere. |
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The Velingrad factory was able to provide replacements that respected the castle's classical tradition and opulent furnishings. |
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Zeng Li deserves praise for the sumptuous sets, and Jerome Kaplan for the opulent costumes. |
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A professional and caring staff pamper spa and sauna members in the most opulent and grand setting. |
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How about an opulent, cinnamon-scented stew of osso buco simmered with caramelized onions and prunes? |
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The album's best moments come in the form of opulent ballads that wallow in overproduction that actually works. |
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Denim, linen, suede, and Italian suiting are the media in which his trademark sensibility for opulent detail is expressed. |
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The inside of each individually-designed bag is equally sumptuous, in baby silk pink or deep opulent red. |
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One reality supplants another as a drab home is replaced with opulent apartments and decadent parties. |
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The Emperor was carried on his opulent palanquin across the centre bridge along the north-south axis on his journey through his city. |
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His musical palette constantly overflows with colour, never garish yet sometimes opulent and sometimes sombre. |
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As at any respectable chophouse, the menu is chock-full of opulent side dishes. |
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The '94 sauvignon blanc is extremely ripe, in a figgier, fuller, more opulent style than the '93 vintage. |
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The palate is an opulent offering of warm and delectable flavors that last long into the impressive finish. |
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As we enter the Great Nicholas Hall, the opulent room is filled with thousands of aristocrats dancing the mazurka in gorgeous period costumes. |
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His South African father urges him to take a job as a croupier in an opulent casino. |
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The only sound is the purr of absurdly opulent motorised yachts cruising out of the harbour for a day messing about on the waves. |
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The ceiling was enormously high with elaborate plasterwork round the remains of a nonexistent chandelier and an opulent floral dado. |
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The U-boat crew grimly stalked its prey under rather less opulent living conditions. |
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The affluence of its patrons gave it a de facto respectability that eluded less opulent sly-groggeries. |
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The tiny, elfin figure that is Canada's most lauded novelist is sipping cappuccino from a china cup in an opulent hotel lounge. |
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It's a wonderfully opulent survey, providing the chance to bring together some rarely seen works, in particular Degas' epoch-making Absinthe. |
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Let's not forget the opulent restaurant favoured by Hong Kongese high-rollers. |
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Many of the restaurants provide accommodation as well as a delicious menu, be it a cosy space above a local pub or large, opulent guest rooms. |
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The family appears middle-class, living in attractive apartments, where the colours are warm and the flowers opulent. |
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His other subjects included nudes, landscapes, portraits, and opulent flower pieces. |
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The next room is deeply wooded and leathered, luminously brown and opulent, gently mirrored and boothed and windowed. |
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But the real highlight of the trip was dinner, served in the opulent dining cars by candlelight on linen, with crystal, flowers and silverware. |
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So if you crave something sweet, try its opulent fruit salad loaded with kiwi, mango, pineapple, grapes and strawberries or tinned lychees. |
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Both films are vivid riots of colour, rhythm and violence, full of gun-toting gangsters and visually opulent set pieces. |
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Anxious hotel staff rush out and sweep us into an opulent Russified artmoderne interior. |
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Colour predictions included lime green, with smatterings of orange for the retro fans and for more opulent effects, aubergine, brown and maroon. |
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Acres of silk, satin, bamboo and quilted fabrics combined to create an opulent Oriental collection. |
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The camera work is eye-poppingly opulent, but feels more self-indulgent than clever. |
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Just as the musicians' lyrics are violent, obscene and self-pitying, so is the generation that supports their opulent lifestyle. |
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Like a Strauss tone poem, the scoring is opulent, wide-ranging, but unmistakably Czech in its harmonic language. |
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Was it still the time of those opulent balls and of southern belles like Scarlett flirting with everyone? |
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Jobs are no longer guaranteed, even for the educated middle classes, and there is poverty right next to the opulent palaces of the rulers. |
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Anne Keers, from Ampleforth, went for an opulent feel, in a long black velvet jacket from Mexx and patterned shift dress from Pennita, Helmsley. |
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Visitors enter the train and snake through its corridors and opulent interiors. |
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The Di Fiore family is likewise desperate as they watch their once opulent estate crumble around them and fear their elevated social status hangs in the balance. |
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The trees were stately, an opulent mix of mature broadleaf and conifer marching alongside the water in an unruly column stretching to the end of Hillside Drive and beyond. |
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The Berkeley Court Hotel's opulent ballroom with its lofty ceiling, tall mirrors and huge chandeliers offers the perfect backdrop for a glamorous night. |
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He caught on film whatever took his fancy, but more than the glamorous and opulent face of Europe, it was her ordinary, earthy face that attracted him. |
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Ringo has kept a home in LA since the mid-Seventies, luxuriating in the climate, the blissfully opulent lifestyle, and the presence of scores of fellow musicians. |
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Later fauteuils of this type by Jacob Freres and Jacob Desmalter are typically entirely gilded, rendering them more opulent than those designed for the Salle du Conseil. |
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The room is a feast of gilt and opulent yellow-patterned fabrics, and it has a floor of aged, biscuit-brown polished wood rather than the almost inescapable blond parquet. |
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The opulent, yet bright orchestration and the chromatic melismata around the tritone and the melodic minor scale all point toward the composer of Schelomo. |
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I presume the aim is to provide an atmosphere that is inoffensively opulent, timeless and bland, so that nothing distracts you from thinking about the sensation in your mouth. |
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Her engaging survey and his fittingly opulent volume, an upbeat gambol through Bollywood's history, are both the work of knowledgeable enthusiasts. |
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Here in the former home of the maharaja one finds an opulent oasis from the bustle of the city. |
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The portrayal of his relationship with his mother was moving, and the opulent domestic setting allowed the exploration of family relations to be even more cutting. |
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The costumes, which have to be rather opulent to fit the period of the play, fill eight trunks and that is not counting all the turbans they wear on stage, he adds. |
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When the rich buy opulent second, third, and fourth homes, they drive up the price of land and housing and force the less fortunate onto the street. |
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While Dewar is seen as having been the most cultured First Minister, he was known as having found the style too opulent for his simple tastes in furnishings and decoration. |
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Yet its opulent, mouldering furnishings appear intact, its books look down from the shelves, their spines unspoiled but their pages crumbled by termites. |
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Today, Yudashkin continues to show his opulent designs in Paris and remains inspired by the country he is proud to call home. |
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The chamber's opulent dining table, an imposing creation of carved mahogany, had been laid out with place cards indicating where a select group of people should be seated. |
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Fanciful miniature fruits and leaves interpreted in carnelian, agate, onyx and rock crystal are skillfully fashioned into opulent bracelets and chains. |
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Although Wainwright's aesthetic is opulent, it is never kitsch. |
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A milestone in the quest for insightful rapprochement between composition and improvisation, Joy Shapes is an incredibly opulent and worryingly irresistible album indeed. |
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In his opulent maroon suit, dickens flaunts his fame and fortune with so little subtlety he makes Kanye West appear modest. |
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About a month ago when my parents suggested they treat me to an opulent, all-inclusive experience over the week of Thanksgiving, it was an offer I simply couldn't refuse. |
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The town became an opulent centre of a powerful and prosperous state. |
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Containing preserved frescoes and opulent glass mosaics, this remarkable archaeological discovery provides a rare insight into the daily life and culture of the period. |
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The wealth from oil enabled him to head an opulent and corrupt court. |
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In this period, Pope was also employed by the publisher Jacob Tonson to produce an opulent new edition of Shakespeare. |
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Although they lived the opulent lifestyles of the wealthy of San Francisco, they were plagued by financial worries. |
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The Italian Opera Dinner will be held at the award-winning Mezzaluna Italian restaurant at the opulent Emirates Palace Abu Dhabi on February 8th. |
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Tony says the new collection is typically opulent, with gold and silver jacquards and rich colours. |
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They now tended to dominate their cities from opulent palaces and country villas, set a little apart from traditional centers of public life. |
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Jane Avril, La Goulue, Mistinguett, and Robe En Strass are amongst the lucky stars that helped set the opulent costume standards. |
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A slender oval face is surrounded by opulent pave rhinestones and complemented by a sleek black leather band. |
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Drawing its inspiration from opulent European country homes, Rural Elegance reworks damasks and brocades with overdyes and vintage effects. |
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The most opulent area of the city was the northeastern quadrant where all the elite were gathered together. |
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Each day, the principals of these companies would meet to arrange cargoes of coal for their ships in the opulent Coal Exchange in Mount Stuart Square. |
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Low seating's a must for this laidback but opulent look, and Moroccan Bazaar's Faux Leather Moroccan Pouffes, PS99 each, come in different colours, including striking gold. |
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The gentry has indeed come to be looked at enviously by very many aspiring failingly for a life of pomp and show that the eminences of this opulent glitterati put on display. |
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Genre paintings reflected the increasing prosperity of Dutch society, and settings grew steadily more comfortable, opulent and carefully depicted as the century progressed. |
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The area to the south and west of the roundabout at the centre of the village was settled in late Victorian and Edwardian times, with many grand and opulent villas. |
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This opulent mirror is richly ornamented with crisply carved foliage, flowers and scrolls, and delicate lacquerwork with mother of pearl inlays and cabochons of faux lapis. |
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So, to inject that luxurious look into your pad, without a price tag worthy of the crown jewels, bag some bargain gems with these opulent eye-catchers. |
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