For all his frustrations, sulks and cancellations, a life spent bringing music to mankind was the greatest joy imaginable: singing, and then the crowd's adoration for his singing, as he jumped from the kitchen table and the cheese, the wine, the pasta and the sausages were lavishly spread before him.
Director Rachel Chavkin has lavishly spread the staging across the room.
Enthusiasm is spread generously and lavishly at the Tonys; to judge by the crowd, there are no wrong winners.
Today extremists have discovered the power of storytelling and they are exploiting it lavishly to spread a culture of intolerance.
The Medecin method, as it was called, was to spread public money around, lavishly -- for a convention hall here, for a water-purification plant there, for an arts pavilion, not forgetting the casinos.
The film's pleasures are the same ones offered by a sprawling, lavishly illustrated magazine spread.
For years, he spread his Russian-earned wealth around lavishly — and anonymously.
"Elegantly understated, the pearl is having its moment under the spotlight of high jewellery," says a lavishly illustrated five-page spread.
In an era when many magazines were retrenching or folding, it was extraordinary for a publisher to court a journalist so lavishly, and the story spread through the trade.
Produced in 1851 by Utagawa Kunisada, "An Illustrated Account of Coupled Genji" consists of three lavishly printed volumes, with double-page spreads showing men and women in luxurious robes engaging in sexual intercourse with delightful urgency.
