Sentence examples for lavish draw from inspiring English sources

It was City who could bemoan their luck at the lavish draw ceremony, in which Uefa's new seeding system was implemented for the first time.

Her lavish receptions drew members of the Politburo.

The Rape of the Sabine Women is dense, lavish and drawn out.

(Part 2 is Monday night.) This lavish production draws on "Journey to the West," a 500-year-old Chinese novel that chronicles the adventures of a monk and his three disciples, Monkey King, Pigsy and Friar Sand.

"Here, great skill is lavished on drawing the individual features of the archers and their audience of monks, courtesans, servants and merchants — 340 people in all".

We have everything from postage-stamp storefront churches to 15,000-person mega-churches with lavish productions that draw overflowing crowds.

Last year, just six months after Katrina, the wounded city put on a surprisingly lavish Mardi Gras and drew 700,000 visitors.

You see, until a few weeks ago it seemed as if Wall Street had effectively bribed and bullied our political system into forgetting about that whole drawing lavish paychecks while destroying the world economy thing.

Although Woodgate's injury problems have meant he has made only 29 Premiership appearances since joining Newcastle in January last year, his form has drawn lavish praise from St James Parkk manager Sir Bobby Robson.

They have the kind of unstinting precision that Ingres might lavish on a drawing of an elaborately accoutered Parisian, yet they exalt nothing but the bare-bones form of the windows and the gentle light they admit to a plain room that we barely see.

The result could be a veil drawn over lavish spending by our elected representatives.