Sentence examples for lucullan from inspiring English sources

The highlight of the celebrations was a week-long feast of lucullan excess at which 68,000 dignitaries heard her promise the nation "happiness, prosperity and welfare".

For my wife, Betsey, and me, the Lucullan memories include the first night of our honeymoon, in 1982; my 50th birthday party, in 1984, a modest affair of nine courses, five 1934 wines and a 1934 Armagnac; and a night when, without Betsey, who would have known better, I helped demolish a salmanazar of Champagne (12 bottles in one) in commemoration of not much of anything.

THERE is no meter ticking, but the taxi motif is king in Andrew Murstein's undeniably Lucullan office at the Medallion Financial Corporation, a wall-of-windows aerie decorated by Juan Montoya and equipped with its own fleet of miniature yellow vehicles, several doubling as nosh trays: cinnamon cake, cookies and jelly beans proliferate, as do Starbucks lattes and pink Snapples.

The adjective Lucullan, meaning "luxurious," derives from his name.

At the same time, the series' visual style was less revisionist than revisiting — a refrigerator soup of Hollywood's past Lucullan feasts.

Then I chuckled gleefully to assure him that the lunch would be of Lucullan extravagance and expense.

Even when they casually caress you in a Lucullan banquet sequence, they might as well be stroking a tapestry that happens to be in the way.

Claiborne had a flair both for showmanship — he hosted long, Lucullan dinners at the two Hamptons houses he built near his longtime collaborator, Pierre Franey — and for publicity.

The latter's fate was sealed when he made the mistake of receiving the King at his magnificent chateau at Vaux-le-Vicomte; the Lucullan festivities, displaying how much wealth Fouquet had amassed at the expense of the state, infuriated Louis.

There has been Lucullan feasting for as long as we have had tables.

Plus a Lucullan sidewalk catering tent where the movie makers chow down off camera.