Grand Central's 100th birthday is coming up in 2013, and so it's giving itself a lavish birthday present -- a new logo!
Sex scenes in his book List of the Lost swayed the judges, it was announced at a lavish ceremony presented by Nancy Dell'Olio on Tuesday.
A steady diet of lavish presents–sports cars, clothes and beauty treatments could indeed inculcate a sense of helplessness and a slavish devotion to status symbols.
Nicholas II loved giving lavish presents, and a snuffbox was considered the most coveted gift of all.
For the lavish presents, Fabergé assembled a team of designers, gem cutters and setters, engravers, enamellers, and polishers.
PAGE A29 Science TIPS FROM THE POTLATCH, WHERE GIVING KNOWS NO SLUMP Common sense says useless gifts and lavish presents have no place in a crunched economy.
Parents should think twice before buying Christmas gifts for their children's teachers, according to a Scottish parents' group, as retailers promote increasingly lavish presents for teaching staff, and families compete to buy the most expensive items.
He had a succession of women friends whom he spoilt with lavish presents.
In some instances, however, teachers had few qualms about accepting lavish presents.
After looking at anthropological research into the potlatch, and talking with a Kwakwaka'wakw Indian chief who carries on this gift-giving ritual in British Columbia, I concluded that lavish presents are essential to social harmony.
When Elinor suggests that she should not accept lavish presents from Willoughby as she hardly knows him, Marianne replies "It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone".
