Voorbeelden van opulence

• The opulence of the hotel was quite a contrast to its surroundings.

• The house enjoyed five centuries of wealth and opulence followed by rapid descent into decay and neglect.

• I wandered around amazed at the sheer opulence of the party.

• And the right measure of opulence is (inclusive) wealth.

• The aura of opulence had gone: chaises-longues and chandeliers had given way to desks and cupboards.

• We tend to forget, however, that luxury is not only manifested in opulence.

• Instead of these we have self-indulgence and greed, public poverty and private opulence.

• As a nation's wealth is the social worth of its capital assets, it is a measure of the nation's opulence.

• The opulence of the costume suggested authority and wealth and, no doubt, sparked fantasy in the audience's imagination.

• Persons in poverty, are rising to opulence, and persons of wealth, are sinking to poverty.

• More ambitious students dream of up to a dozen or more and living out the rest of their days in opulence.

• The point isn't that opulence misleads, but rather that we should search for the right measure of opulence.

• On such occasions, the objective seemed invariably to be to create an atmosphere of opulence : the more glamorous and expensive the goods consumed, the more successful the outing.

• You have only to look about you at the present time to see greed, opulence and corruption taking over.

• On many railways they are even better than the first-class carriages, because they are not so stuffy, velvety, and upholstered with the same uncomfortable opulence.

• Those savings are on a scale to provide genuine opulence in any family world, which indicates that opportunities must exist for additional help.

• The men to-day are equally efficient and should not be passed over in favour of those of more opulence or other social status.

• On your side is every element of what is called respectability: education, opulence, power, rank, connexions.