Sentence examples for lavish consumption from inspiring English sources

America's lavish consumption does not appear to be as troublesome as its garishness.

In Second Empire Paris, the lavish consumption of modish novelties set a handful of celebrated courtesans, known as the grandes horizontales, above all others.

To be a priest had a status that has been eroded, Monsignor Bergin says, by modernity's embrace of lavish consumption and secularism.

One second he's implying that free-and-easy gun laws are the problem; the next, he's pointing out that Canada, with its equally lax gun rules, and equally lavish consumption of violent Hollywood movies, has a tiny murder rate.

Despite this dressing down, there is plenty of lavish consumption and display on the part of today's Overclass.

He does interviews sans publicist, and he frets over his celebrity status in a country where excessive wealth and lavish consumption don't exist.

That is why the distinction between Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, at the Academy Awards, grows ever more ludicrous essential, of course, to the smooth structure of the night, but untrue, in the long run, to the way in which we feed on film, or store it away for lavish future consumption.

That is why the distinction between Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, at the Academy Awards, grows ever more ludicrous — essential, of course, to the smooth structure of the night, but untrue, in the long run, to the way in which we feed on film, or store it away for lavish future consumption.

During the 18th and 19th centuries the costs of printing prevented the lavish use of illustrations.

Its outstanding advantage is that the abundance of bone available allows lavish use.

Whereas many recent novels about obesity abound with lavish inventories of consumption, "Big Brother" starves its two main characters, who limit themselves to protein powders and cups of tea.