Mr. Hiaasen said recently, however, that he didn't think Quail Valley was lavish enough for the Palmer Stoats and Chaz Perrones of this world.
A gypsy costume Ms. Porter made for Begum Aga Khan to wear to a fancy dress ball given by Baron Alexis de Rede was lavish enough that her fellow Briton, the designer Hardy Amies, described it as "pre-guillotine".
Another member of the class said that she had borrowed tens of thousands of dollars a year to keep up socially, and that she never invited classmates to her parents' home nearby because she did not feel it was lavish enough.
I said, 'I'll cut $10 million.' And they said, 'But we don't want you to do that, because the $20 million version wouldn't be lavish enough.' Crazy, right?" Peirce, who is always juggling a few ideas, had been simultaneously developing a story inspired by her half brother, who was a soldier in Iraq at the time.
Prizes and perks varied among the games — from cash to lifelong free meals at public expense — but they were lavish enough to justify the conclusion, by John J. Herrmann, Jr., and Christine Kondoleon, in their fine, deeply informative introduction to the catalogue of the Boston show, that "Greek athletes were professionals," albeit professionals imbued with spiritual glamour.
While most of the other official buildings are Greek or Roman in design, the library is Italianate — it looks like a Renaissance palace — and while those other edifices are dignified and chaste-seeming, this one was lavish enough to serve as a location for "National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets," in which Nicolas Cage runs around inside the dome of the main reading room.
"There is lavish killing here," she wrote, "perhaps enough to satisfy all male black readers".
The voice is lavish, too.
The descriptive detail is lavish and gorgeous.
