Tippoo Tib lived out his life in egregious peace and luxury in Zanzibar; few people would have known that King Leopold had gained an empire and Tippo Tib had lost one.
At this point peace is a luxury.
The work is named after a 1904 painting by Matisse, who in turn borrowed the title from a line of Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil (1857): "There all is order and beauty / Luxury, peace, and pleasure".
Carthage impresses the eye and ear mostly as an oasis of luxury, peace and ease, though the abandoned Dido's self-slaughter and the Carthaginians' curse on the departing Trojans (how right yet how strange an ending for this celebration of Rome's manifest destiny!) recapture the stark, brooding strain.
Peace was the luxury of the powerful.
("I'm perfectly willing to go anywhere that I can live not, perhaps, in peace, but certainly in luxury," he once wrote to a friend).
By Nick Paumgarten Matt Warshaw A luxury of peace and prosperity: Last year, editors at the Oxford English Dictionary, in the midst of a long march toward a third edition, set out to add an entry on "tandem surfing".
The peace talks, in a luxury hotel in Addis Ababa, are aimed at an immediate cessation of hostilities, but little progress has been reported.
The country's rich may enjoy many luxuries, but peace of mind is not one of them.
Proudhon's country childhood and peasant ancestry influenced his ideas to the end of his life, and his vision of the ideal society almost to the end remained that of a world in which peasant farmers and small craftsmen like his father could live in freedom, peace, and dignified poverty, for luxury repelled him, and he never sought it for himself or others.
