Sentence examples for material splendor from inspiring English sources

Was the nation going soft, lulled into complacency by the material splendor of Ward and June Cleaver's suburban idyll?

The complex palette, which in one context conveyed a sense of bejewelled material splendor, in another context suggests the bruised opalescence of bodily decay.

"Courts are always trying to appropriate the opposite of themselves, which is the ascetic ideal," said Mr. Campbell, "to show that there's more to life than material splendor".

The combination of material splendor and asceticism that characterizes Tura's art was not mere eccentricity but the hallmark of an aristocratic court wrapping itself in the mantle of religion in order to protect its position.

His descriptions of her cosmetic and medical scholarship, her training in philosophy and the material splendors of her court (gold table service was so ubiquitous she took to calling it "ceramic") will interest serious historians and Cleopatra enthusiasts alike.

I am happy that you will be coming here, because I have been worried about you a little: whether the splendor of material goods in America has overshadowed poverty in other aspects of life".

This exhibition showcases the work of over thirty international artists who explore the strange splendor of organic materials such as feathers, bones, insects, and eggshells.

For in the neon-lighted neighborhoods that Kramer paints in all their lurid splendor, Madame Butterfly has long since morphed into the Material Girl, and the geishas have been effectively supplanted by acquisitive adolescents with a taste for raucous, smoky clubs and hushed, expensive boutiques.

As might be expected, techniques and materials are by turn lavish, exquisite and bold in the section devoted to Gorgeous Splendor.

Compassion! Splendor!

Pragmatism must accompany splendor.