opulence

How To Use opulence In A Sentence

• In the moralistic atmosphere of 1950s Hollywood, it was tricky to present Colette's account of the risqué demimondaine, and its glorification of the courtesans who relied on wealthy playboys and aristocrats to live in a state of opulence. France's Courtesan Queen Returns to the Silver Screen
• No, he takes Scrooge to the market, and shows him the abundance there, especially the fruits sometimes literal of foreign trade: There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence. A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say
• He enjoyed the best of the Old World's opulence and grace-plays and operas, symphonies and museums, soirées and cotillions.
• Returning to his own unprepossessing patch of auto show real estate — five cars parked on a stretch of carpet — Zhou assessed the surrounding opulence: Those beautiful vehicles are for the very handsome men, those high in society. A Car for the Everyday Man
• It's the perfect escape to glamour and opulence if the hippy vibe is all too much. Times, Sunday Times
• Known for opulence,the MSC Fantasia boasts the exclusive MSC yacht club featuring a staircase of Swarovski crystals as well as a private lounge with transparent ceilings.
• On the contrary, this bldg is purely a display of opulence, luxury and extravagance by someone who can afford. Perkins + Will’s Antilla “Green” Tower in Mumbai | Inhabitat
• But there are few cases of ostentatious opulence amid the poverty.
• The opulence of such clergy as were close to the court expressed itself in the overripe late Gothic of the great collegiate churches at Stirling, Linlithgow, Rosslyn, and Perth.
• The lack of land and hunger made the neighboring landlords'opulence and luxury especially intolerable.