In the catalog, Aslet wrote : " How was it possible for him to have created a work of such sumptuousness at a time when almost everyone else in the country was suffering the privations of war?
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Contemporary visitors and residents at Ghazni write with wonder of the ornateness of the buildings, the great libraries, the sumptuousness of the court ceremonies and of the wealth of precious objects owned by Ghazni's citizens.
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The leaves fall, and the light shines golden and clear; compared with the well-lit contemporary look of the " angry young men " films, Hammer's mournful sumptuousness must have been even more striking.
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Henry of Huntingdon ( 12th century ) claimed that Harthacnut ordered for the dining tables of his court to be " " laid four times a day with royal sumptuousness " " which O'Brien says is likely a popular myth.
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Although he pays detailed homage to Versailles'sumptuousness, there's always a subversive little touch _ a coughing peasant here, really ridiculous wigs there _ that make " Ridicule " much wickeder than your usual historical movie fashion show.
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This lingering farewell to three of Strauss'greatest loves _ the soprano voice, the symphony orchestra and life _ has been recorded many times, but surely never with a more exhilarating mix of sumptuousness and vitality than by Jessye Norman in 1982.
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Ippolito was a prominent patron of the arts, and brought much of the sumptuousness of the Ferrara Este court with him to the Holy City; he was also a patron of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina around the same time that Portinaro was there.
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On board, it's a show of Victorian-styled sumptuousness, especially the Grand Salon, a mini-opera house that was turned into a casino where many of relay sponsor Coca-Cola's 200 guests whiled away the hours.
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William Boughton has made a specialty of early 20th-century British music, and his recordings with the English String Orchestra and the English Symphony have a winning Romantic sumptuousness, which is magnified by the natural reverberance of the halls where they are recorded.
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They argue that this is a phenomenon called the " liminal space of dreaming " in that the terrorist woman cannot fulfill her sexual desire so the songs fill the void of this desire by " their sumptuousness and exotic locales " in the Ladakh region.
