My allegiance first and foremost is as an Ijaw man from the Niger Delta," he told the Guardian a few hours later, lounging in an opulently furnished government guesthouse.
For creating "legislation above the laws" at Napoleon's behest, its 80 handpicked members were opulently rewarded with money and honours.
The old Automat site, on the same Mayfair stretch as Novikov and Sexy Fish, has been opulently pimped up into a fantasy speakeasy – a tycoon-friendly version of the Red Room in Twin Peaks.
Ledgard's walls are hung with classical Venuses and modern paintings so opulently that this hyper-designed film resembles David Cronenberg body horror reconceived to the specifications of Wallpaper* magazine.
For all the film's opulently beautiful, dizzyingly flamboyant virtuosity, I'm still not convinced there is any great substance to it; let's just say that there's a thin line between Black Swan and Daffy Duck.
Grand palaces Lording it over Turin's Piazza Castello, Palazzo Reale (00 39 011 436 1455; ilpalazzorealedi torino.it; €12) was for centuries the seat of the Savoy court and the family's principal residence, with opulently decorated apartments and a royal armoury.
Opening 27 January at the Royal Opera House, London (020-7304 4000), Willy Decker's Salzburg Festival production of Korngold's opulently scored opera represents another chance for British audiences to assess the "Viennese Puccini", though they won't have to wait too long for the real one.
She looked like her father's side of the family, thin and strong-boned, and didn't much resemble her opulently attractive mother, who was shapely, with wide hazel eyes and a full mouth.
This is an opulently detailed exposition of a simple but potent idea: that music is on some level the same everywhere, and that classical music is no longer a European art.
In Heinz Kerry's opulently spacious private aerie, a wall of glass opens onto a terrace with sweeping views of the Pittsburgh riverfront that she has helped revitalize.
