lavishness

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• Lavishness of decoration, mastery of execution, expansion of palettes with mixed colours are some of the characteristics of Assam's manuscript paintings.
• Higher again, upon a terreplein, are lines of tanks laid out with all that lavishness of labour which distinguishes similar works in Syria: it is, however, difficult to assign any date to these constructions. The Land of Midian
• Many speak critically of the lavishness of the modern day meals post the breaking of fast iftar, or footor, as it's know in the Gulf. Global Voices in English » Qatar reflects on spirit, practice of Ramadan
• And you know the lavishness of the big ranches, then and now. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
• However, not everyone in the community is enamoured by the lavishness of the monument and some describe it as an eyesore.
• It is, rather, a smothering of the soul or a gallows boast, perfervid and florid - an unwitting confession of peewee excesses, of niggling lavishnesses, and of misapprehensions of the phony for the real and the swinish for the good.
• Stepping ashore, you see a long line of carriages drawn up in several rows, and of every conceivable variety -- from the Turkish araba to the most coquettish-looking Parisian coupé -- gilded and adorned in a style to make a French lorette stare with amazement at a lavishness of expenditure exceeding her own. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
• a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness
• Lavishness lives on among the audience members, whose gaudy fashion sense the evening I attended was in stern defiance of Mr. Zapatero's plan de austeridad. In Madrid, the Party Goes On, Austero Style
• There was no humbug or hypocrisy about Mr. Glegg; his eyes would have watered with true feeling over the sale of a widow’s furniture, which a five-pound note from his side pocket would have prevented; but a donation of five pounds to a person “in a small way of life” would have seemed to him a mad kind of lavishness rather than “charity, ” which had always presented itself to him as a contribution of small aids, not a neutralizing of misfortune. XII. Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home. Book I—Boy and Girl