Sentence examples for extreme opulence from inspiring English sources
Like her husband, Marie-Laure de Noailles belonged to a grand French family (her ancestors included the Marquis de Sade and the Comtesse de Chevigné, an inspiration for the Duchesse de Guermantes in Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past") but she was also the heiress to a banking fortune that enabled her to live in extreme opulence.
Ranferi lives with his group of supple boys in extreme opulence.
What seems to most upset her is not the extreme opulence of those living on sacred tribal grounds or the fact that the Nation "isn't reaping any of the benefits" of the prime real estate, but rather the general lack of respect afforded to the Shinnecocks at the local level.
While my former classmates sit in a room reading about the French revolution, I have been blessed with the opportunity to walk the hallways of Versailles, taking in the unreality of a palace so extreme in its opulence that one can immediately understand just how a comment such as "let them eat brioche", could have been erroneously attributed to Marie Antoinette.
My mother came from opulence — opulent for Iowa.
It is called — with understatement, I think — "Extreme Beauty," and there is so much opulence of texture and imagination, so much bravura and craftsmanship seething in a small space that it's hard to digest.
Under Karimov's leadership, most Uzbek people lived in extreme poverty, while his family enjoyed a life of opulence.
The novel aspects of his style (melodic and harmonic fragmentation, wide intervallic leaps, unusual use of dissonance and timbres, ascetic sparseness of texture, and extreme conciseness of form) at first disconcerted those conditioned to the opulence of the late Romantic era (e.g., Richard Wagner operas, Anton Bruckner and Mahler symphonies, and Richard Strauss tone poems).
They have benefitted from and abetted the extreme wealth gap; they have traditionally supported regressive Republican policies (and, more recently, backed Trump); and they live lives of opulence that contribute disproportionately to climate change.
