Martin did claim the allowance, even though, as Speaker, he had access to a lavish grace-and-favour apartment in the Palace of Westminster.
When it was announced that Boris Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox are to share use of Chevening, a lavish grace-and-favour country house, Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, described the scenario as "a bit like Brexit Towers".
Edwards and other Augustinians thus hold that the damned differ from the saved in one respect only: God has freely chosen not to lavish his grace upon them in the same way that he does lavish it, in their view, on the elect.
Cultish thinking means that the stupendously rich who throw small slivers of their fortunes at charity, or merely grace lavish fundraisers – like Prince William's Winter Whites gala for the homeless at his taxpayer-funded Kensington Palace home – with their presence, become instant saints.
At most, they were grace before a lavish meal.
The covers alone provide a window into the evolving design of Vogue and its distinct looks under different editors: the elegant, iconic and occasionally abstract or surreal covers of Edna Woolman Chase; the frosted confections of Diana Vreeland; the peppy close-ups of models' faces from the Grace Mirabella years; the celebrities in lavish settings from Anna Wintour.
His previous novel, "The Forgiven," about a British couple who hit a young man with their car while travelling to a lavish party in the Moroccan desert, had the sinister grace of Paul Bowles.
In some ways, Work No 850 is not so far removed from the exhibition that has just come down from the Duveen Galleries: a lavish confection of neoclassical sculpture with Canova's Three Graces as its climax.
The lavish food, wine, clothes, cars and sensuous self-indulgence – the easy grace of the true aristocracy – is deeply envied by the middle-class upstart Ryder: the outsider, looking in – who yearns to emulate such consummate style.
Lavish period furnishings and reproductions accent air-conditioned rooms with elegance and grace.
A lavish book on his work, published in France that year, was graced with a preface by the noted philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, who praised his "sumptuous impertinence," and an epigraph by the President of the Republic, François Mitterrand, who called him "l'un des ambassadeurs du génie Français".
