Sentence examples for opulent dinner from inspiring English sources

Every year, scholars from around the world gather for a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, where they sit around an opulent dinner table, peppering Mr. Putin with questions for hours.

We dug a little and found that the pictures of Mr. Booker at the opulent dinner party were taken from a New York magazine article published May 5, 2003, profiling the host, Boykin Curry.

For a wonkish career diplomat, Araud was known for his subtle wit — and for throwing fabulous fetes full of avant-garde decor (a masquerade ball last year featured a tableau of stuffed animals seated as if attending an opulent dinner party; holiday decorations included upside-down trees and mannequins with animal heads in punk-rocker costume).

In Dubai last year to participate in its excellent literature festival, I discovered, at a characteristically opulent dinner, that the subject of conversation among British expats at my table was an event from the previous day involving Paxman and the Indian writer Pankaj Mishra, on the legacy of empire.

Your most embarrassing travel faux pas: At the end of a rugged trip through China, I found myself having to dress for an opulent dinner in Hong Kong and having no clean, chic eveningwear.

This entire campaign for marriage equality, brought to you by the mainstream gay rights movement, is about assimilating rich, white gays and lesbians into a society that politely tolerates all sorts of atrocities at the most opulent dinner parties.

In some very social circles, it even overshadows the original in Switzerland, as far as the partying, the opulent dinners and the unbridled hobnobbing are concerned.

I remember relatively opulent dinners at their flat, with lots of vodka, sovietskoje shampanskoje and endless discussions about bureaucracy, corruption, anti-Semitism, alcoholism, crime and the daily tribulations of Soviet life subjects that Visotzky addressed in his songs.

Apart from encounters like these, artists often seem marginal to the social scene at a blue-chip fair like Art Basel Miami Beach, which is dominated by dealers, collectors and museum trustees, who use these four days to reinforce their business and personal relationships at often opulent dinners and parties.

"They would open a bottle and debate whether it was real, and Rudy would always be the one loudly proclaiming something was a forgery," said John Slover, the wine director at Ciano in Manhattan, who witnessed many opulent dinners from 2004 to 2007 when he was a sommelier at Cru. "The person who constantly comes off as the authority on what's fake and what's not fake puts himself above suspicion".

"When we were kids, it was an opulent James Bond-like dinner house called the Stuft Shirt," Klohs says.