Sentence examples for lavish quantities from inspiring English sources

The Elizabethans dosed syphilis with a combination of hot baths (treating the disease by raising body temperature endured into the 20th century), cathartics and lavish quantities of mercury.

There, where they title the dish "Lucky home town fish", they serve a whole sea bass covered in lavish quantities of fish-fragrant sauce, that famous Sichuanese combination of pickled chilli, garlic and ginger with sweet-and-sour flavours.

The Daily Mail's Christopher Stevens thought it "magnificent" and wrote: "The entire production is like a Napoleonic cavalry charge on the emotions, and the opening hour-long episode was nothing less than a sweeping victory... "It has everything the perfect costume drama demands, in such lavish quantities that even the most profligate Russian oligarch would feel he'd got his money's worth".

He left Paris for London – "with his tail between his legs", Ormond said – in 1884 after the scandal sparked by his outrageously sexy portrait of Madame X, painted with lavish quantities of chalk white skin exposed in a recklessly low-cut black velvet dress.

In recent years, especially as the strategies of the "third way" and "compassionate conservatism" blurred many of the traditional philosophical differences between Democrats and Republicans, Americans seem to be left with nothing but zeal, its mischief grotesquely amplified by lavish quantities of private money.

It offers lavish quantities of comedy, satire, allegory, fantasy and brilliant political commentary; makes coded allusions to recognizable celebrities like the communications magnate Carlos Slim; evokes the work of Spinoza and Machiavelli; includes ghosts, graves, murders, a voluble flying prophet and a talking severed head.

A lavish quantity of fresh flowers arranged along a stage - you would not guess Nicaragua is the second poorest country in Latin America - frames each of their public appearances.

Saudi Arabia made itself self-sufficient in wheat by lavishing untold quantities of money to create grain fields in the desert.

The place, which has had quantities of love lavished upon it, sings with warmth and colour.

However, given the enormous quantities of gold which had been lavished on the project, it also demonstrated the limits of what money and diplomacy alone could achieve.

Despite these challenges, the huge quantities of gold coming through Dawson City encouraged a lavish lifestyle amongst the richer prospectors.