In the rose window of Notre Dame, luxury is represented "as a woman titivating herself in front of a mirror", says Christopher Berry in his study "The Idea of Luxury", published in 1994.Sumptuary laws were devised over the centuries to discourage dissipation, curb imports of expensive fripperies and (often hypocritically) preserve distinctions of rank.
It's our hope to preserve the distinction".
Let's preserve the distinction between shaming and imprisonment.
Parliament has manifested its intent to preserve a distinction between assignees and licensees.
They all preserve a distinction between two kinds of mental activity: rational thought and creative imagination.
Surely it was quaintly legalistic of America's allies to preserve a distinction that events had made defunct.
He added, "I certainly have tried here to preserve the distinction between news material and classified advertising.
The academy may wish to preserve a distinction, however blurry, between creative content and sponsorship, but that principle melted long ago.
The amendment's objective was to preserve a distinction between the responsibilities of the courts (such as deciding matters of law) and those of juries (such as deciding matters of fact).
A social scientific scrutiny of the human, rather than natural, world doesn't easily lend itself to generalisable laws, cast-iron predictions, nor can it always preserve a distinction between fact and value.
Wherever he went, Mr. Moynihan explored interesting buildings and worked to preserve architectural distinction, from converting the main post office in Manhattan into the new Pennsylvania Station, to the Customs House at Battery Park and all around Washington.
