In outline, the situation resembles that of Dreiser's "An American Tragedy" (and its movie version, "A Place in the Sun"), in which a poor boy irresistibly drawn to a rich girl and all the pleasant luxuries that come with her manages to get his impoverished girlfriend pregnant.
Both designs relied on simplicity and a stripped-down conceptualization of what makes a space pleasant or even beautiful — window placement, airflow, harmonious colors — in the absence of luxury finishes or elaborate architecture.
When I first went in 1969, couples in silk ties and fancy gowns danced among Champagne-laden tatluxury luxury hotels; pleasant guesthouses dotted the bush.
Aside from Beatrix Potter-ish bunnies and squirrels in the window, street level offers all the hallmarks of a typical corporate-luxury shop: pleasant unnecessary doorman, open shelving displaying the house's greatest hits, discreetly tucked-away till.
Thanks to the current exchange rate between the Colombian peso and the U.S. dollar, the average cost of property in Medellín, Colombia, another top city choice for expat retirees, with a Euro-chic cosmopolitan lifestyle, pleasant year-round climate, and luxury housing options, has fallen to less than $965 per square meter in that city's most expensive neighborhood, El Poblado.
When you're a carer who sees perfectly pleasant clients scraping by, and obnoxious clients living in luxury, you do wish you could redistribute resources.
I had only expected to stay in Arusha for another day or so, but I ended up having a very pleasant reason to stay on with a bit of luxury thrown in.
The eight-hour non-stop flight from Los Angeles via Air Tahiti Nui, one of the only options in getting there, is quite pleasant if you are not expecting an over-the-top, luxury experience.
Los Cabos' multitude of luxury hotels tend to be pricey, and the pleasant weather makes winter the high season here, but new airfare service and several package deals make it an economical option nevertheless.
Guay "was of medium stature, rather slim; his face was oval-shaped and pleasant, his manners polite… Also, he owned his own car, a luxury during wartime".
