Here is a writer who loves words, and one senses his striving for prose to match the luxurious scope afforded by his commission.
The emerging lavatories were ornate and luxurious, including faux-marble crown molding and white enamel urinals.
The opening satire attacks the contemporary court and courtier as luxurious and effeminate.
Consumption of luxurious goods and fashion were still important for him, though applied to the mating politics that underlay racial transformation.
Spending on luxurious agricultural products was viewed as less harmful to future income because wealth remained with the productive classes.
The passage of relevance to this article occurs in a rather lengthy diversion on the luxurious and colourful clothing which could be seen in certain monastic communities.
They found it not in the ancestral piles and forelock-tugging tenantry still prized by provincial elites, but in the determined pursuit of luxurious fashion in the capital.
Furnishings, food, and service are luxurious.
