It helps if you have a cool twenty-seven thousand dollars to spare, for then you get a share of the Balmoral Suite: 2,249 square feet of what the brochure describes as "sheer extravagance," including a dining area for eight twoo interactive plasma-screen tvs; your own exercise equipment; and (the least they could do, really) "a fully stocked bar".
Sheer extravagance of design and grandness of ambition will always strike a chord.
There is, moreover, the sheer extravagance.
Is this innovation or sheer extravagance?
Even American eyes are starting to pop at the sheer extravagance of executive pay.
The virtue of the atlas conceived by Johannes Klencke was, through sheer extravagance, to ennoble something that was actually increasingly universal.
For sheer extravagance, Hammacher Schlemmer lives up to its reputation for selling the ridiculously expensive in its catalogs with the $4,000 Triode-Tube iPod speakers with old-fashioned vacuum tubes that glow through see-through panels.
This leads to some funny observations you might not find in a similar tale about young people in, say, the South Dakota fracking scene: "She'd get this pinched look on her face, as if the sheer extravagance of Proust's prose was morally objectionable, as if there were children in Africa who could have better used those excess words".
That said, your recipes show a sprinkling of sumac or a slosh of alcohol lifts this winning combination to new heights... Sugars both caster and powdered, not one but two scented syrups, meringue encrusted with crushed pistachio, cream the colour of sunlight, berries steeped in citrus, sumac, rose and basil … Fadime Tiskaya wins for the sheer extravagance of it all.
"They're a sheer pleasure," he said.
Reading this was a sheer enjoyment.
