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.
