Sentence examples for lavish presents from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Parents should think twice before buying Christmas gifts for their children's teachers, according to a Scottish parents' group, as retailers promote increasingly lavish presents for teaching staff, and families compete to buy the most expensive items.

Lisa doesn't work; she depends on Johnny, who lavishes presents and attention on her.

And in one display of secretarial initiative, when Winchell, who felt ethically constrained to return the lavish Christmas presents sent in by press agents, she persuaded him to let her keep them.

Mr. Dedvukaj, 26, who supervised maintenance workers at the World Trade Center, skimped on himself to take his nieces and nephews to McDonald's and to buy them lavish Christmas presents.

Sex scenes in his book List of the Lost swayed the judges, it was announced at a lavish ceremony presented by Nancy Dell'Olio on Tuesday.

Pennington forbade officers from working details at bars and strip joints, banned the practice of patrolmen lavishing expensive presents on their commanders at Christmas, and stopped hiring officers with criminal records or bad credit.