In some instances, however, teachers had few qualms about accepting lavish presents.
He had a succession of women friends whom he spoilt with lavish presents.
Nicholas II loved giving lavish presents, and a snuffbox was considered the most coveted gift of all.
PAGE A29 Science TIPS FROM THE POTLATCH, WHERE GIVING KNOWS NO SLUMP Common sense says useless gifts and lavish presents have no place in a crunched economy.
When Elinor suggests that she should not accept lavish presents from Willoughby as she hardly knows him, Marianne replies "It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone".
After looking at anthropological research into the potlatch, and talking with a Kwakwaka'wakw Indian chief who carries on this gift-giving ritual in British Columbia, I concluded that lavish presents are essential to social harmony.
Mr. Dumas has denied the charges, saying it was Mr. Sirven who hired Ms. Deviers-Joncour and that he was unaware of what she was paid or that Elf paid for the lavish presents she bought him, including five antique statues worth about $40,000.
More recently it has turned into yet another moment in the gift-giving calendar, with reports of parents buying lavish presents for their children's teachers, such as iPads, luxury cosmetics, designer handbags and pre-paid shopping cards.Such extravagant gifts rarely reflect the sincere gratitude that teachers or pupils feel towards their teachers, of course.
A steady diet of lavish presents–sports cars, clothes and beauty treatments could indeed inculcate a sense of helplessness and a slavish devotion to status symbols.
For the lavish presents, Fabergé assembled a team of designers, gem cutters and setters, engravers, enamellers, and polishers.
This follows the revelation that Drug Enforcement Agency personnel were treated to hookers and lavish presents (of fancy weapons, no less) by drug cartels down in Mexico.
