| They contribute generously to village and family enterprises and avoid ostentatious displays of affluence. |
| Yet do our televisions, telephones, videos and other consumer goods represent affluence or poverty? |
| Ironically, in the prosperous 1990s, expensive cigars enjoyed a resurgence of popularity as a badge of affluence. |
| The affluence of its patrons gave it a de facto respectability that eluded less opulent sly-groggeries. |
| He goes on publishing the book and as many of his confederates as choose to go into the conspiracy do so, and they rear families in affluence. |
| She gets fired, her husband resigns in solidarity, and the couple moves to the cloudless suburban affluence of Stepford, Connecticut. |
