And maybe the buyer will hang it in their bedroom and lie in silent solitude soaking up its tortured sumptuousness. |
As with the embroidered cross on the mantle, one can note here the desire to emulate the sumptuousness of the regalia of the Royal Orders. |
Although the sumptuousness itself set new standards, its characteristics belonged, curiously, to a past age. |
Bowls, bottles, and ewers of remarkable sumptuousness were decorated with forms of running animals and plant scrolls. |
To increase their pleasures, people have added delicacies in food, ornateness in dress, and sumptuousness in housing. |
These productions were influenced by the sumptuousness of Italian opera and the innovations of Lully's lyric tragedies. |