Sentence examples for extravagant dining from inspiring English sources

With a public profile as an anti-corruption crusader and a market reformer, he had famously published officials' phone numbers to try to improve transparency, he'd privatised hospitals and schools, and avoided extravagant dining.

For something like a moving vehicle, like a train, you could draw some people who "hitched" a ride in one of the cars, an extravagant dining car, or, if those things don't suit you, you could make your city ride the rails, drawing banks, homes, places to work, a movie theater, and more!

"It's by Hugh Hardy," he said, citing the architect who converted the former storage room into one of the most extravagant dining and drinking spaces in town.

But now the hand-carved staircase, the newly restored tapestries and the Venetian chandeliers leading to its restaurant's luxurious and extravagant dining rooms can be seen by the public -- at least at lunchtime.

And when you are led into the extravagant dining room — a lobby-turned-seraglio with rosy lighting, great swags of striped silk, and a wall of flowers that would make Jeff Koons swoon — you may feel like settling in for the night.

From the interior decoration and tchotchkes to the extravagant dining and parties, it is about the sheer amusement of just throwing money away, said Joseph Epstein, a former editor of The American Scholar and the author of "Snobbery: The American Version" (Houghton Mifflin, 2002).

I see Tavern on the Green's closing as an end to an extravagant and glorious gilded age of dining.

Nevertheless, the festivities are an easy target: "While the guests are dining on expensive and extravagant food there will be scores who will be oppressed and placed behind bars by the Chinese government," Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, said.

But then Morimoto is an extravagant restaurant: 12,000 square feet, 160 seats for dining (plus many more in a downstairs lounge), a multi-million-dollar design and construction budget.

With hotels competing fiercely to offer the most extravagant facilities - ranging from lavish spas and private water parks, to fine dining and shopping malls, and with the city's licensing laws limiting the sale of alcohol to hotel bars, clubs and restaurants, many visitors end up spending much of their time in their hotels.

Extravagant flower displays provide islands of color in Jean-Christian Dumonet's two sober dining rooms, and luxury abounds on his carte.