sumptuosity

1 Do you consider that Nature too is a swollen flunky, hungry for veils; and can be taken in with your sublime airs of sumptuosity, and the large balance you actually have in Lombard Street?

2 To the flawless beauty of the face there was added that wonderful charm of innocence and unfading youth which no sumptuosities of dress and decoration could conceal.

3 He looked surreptitiously round the room, brilliantly lighted here, and there obscure, and he comprehended how every detail of its varied sumptuosity aptly illustrated her mind and heart.

4 At the end of a passage leading from the quarter-deck there was a long saloon, its sumptuosity slightly tarnished perhaps, but having a grand air of roominess and comfort.

5 Abbot Samson reedifies it, all of polished marble; with the highest stretch of art and sumptuosity, reembellishes the Shrine for which it is to serve as pediment.

6 He was rather a favourite with the regiment, treating the young officers with sumptuosity, and amusing them by his military airs.

7 Maximum of sumptuosity; really a polite creature; no man of his means so regardless of expense.

8 No one on earth is now quite so richly dressed as she was, no one old or young indulges in so quiet and yet so profound a sumptuosity.

9 Next Saturday I give a dinner to the Tigres of my opera-box, and I am preparing sumptuosities out of all reason.

10 This same house Cornelia bought for seventy-five thousand drachmas, and not long after Lucius Lucullus, for two million five hundred thousand; so rapid and so great was the growth of Roman sumptuosity.

11 Site, sumptuosity, climate, vegetation here attain their acme; so far, indeed, Nice may be pronounced flawless.

12 Abbot Samson reëdifies it, all of polished marble; with the highest stretch of art and sumptuosity, reëmbellishes the Shrine for which it is to serve as pediment.

13 The furniture, lustres, ceilings, and pictures, all display a feeling for the fine arts, and a sumptuosity governed by good taste, which may well surprise us in a Cossack.

14 Neither Lyons, Bordeaux, Nantes, can compare with it for sumptuosity.

15 His entertainments were, for the most part, plain and citizenlike, the company general and popular; good taste and kindness made them pleasanter than sumptuosity would have done.

16 At the end of a passage leading from the quarter-deck there was a long saloon, its sumptuosity slightly tarnished perhaps, but having a grand air of roominess and comfort. 

17 This carcass was magnificently clad, and if we are to see Gilles in his own environment, we must remember all the sumptuosity of fifteenth century furnishing.

18 As one contemplates these courtly sumptuosities, La Bruyère's famous picture recurs to the mind, of far other scenes in the same gay land.

19 They themselves broke up the Order of the Inimitable Livers, and constituted another in its place, not inferior in splendor, luxury, and sumptuosity, calling it that of the Diers together.

20 General speaking, the Oekenzaburo's early novel "the Sumptuosity of the Dead" reflects the nothingness of Japanese youngsters postwar which has really the Sartre's style of Existentialism.

一般认为，大江健三郎的早期作品《死者的奢华》反映了战后日本青年虚无的一面，是地地道道的萨特存在主义风格的小说。

1 摆阔

splurge put on the ritz

2 挥霍

prodigal profligate free-spending spendthrift dissipative splurge wastefulness prodigality sumptuousness dissipate blow splash scatter make the money fly play ducks and drakes with piss away

3 高价

high valuable high-priced big-ticket dear dearly highness king's ransom of value

4 奢侈

costly luxurious deluxe sumptuous Babylonian gilt superfluous gilded princely improvident high luxe extravagancy luxury extravagance high off the hog at the highest

5 富丽堂皇

sumptuously sumptuousness