The Maybach is the better car, but the Phantom is the more striking statement of success.
Ultimately, the Maybach is a $75,000-a-seat statement of success, a 21st-century version of a royal coach attended by footmen in powdered wigs.
I expressed astonishment, and the curator told me that Lee had been a self-made shipowner -- for a time he was the wealthiest man in Massachusetts, she said -- and that the house had been his statement of success.
FROM FLEETWOOD TO ESCALADE Cadillacs at their high points are imposing statements of success and conspicuous consumption, and the 1970s Fleetwood ticked all the right boxes.
Various interventions (e.g. intradiscal electrotherapy) are also used, but despite anecdotal statements of success trials thus far have found their use to be of little direct benefit [ 119].
It is a macroeconomic tool, not a statement of financial success or failure.The SNB itself understands this.
"It's a statement of our success how quickly we've become mainstream," said Pat Gelsinger, the company's chief executive.
I have the impression that the set-up – indoor car parking, several assistants, underfloor heating, a sewing room, an archive, a kitchen, a freshly made double bed into which she can dive at any time – feels very necessary to her: a comfort, yes, but also a highly visible statement of her success.
"There's a lot of scar tissue that everyone has to cut through around here," said one senior administration official, who has been surprised by the degree to which Mr. Bush and his longtime aides are trapped by their own vision, and past statements, of how success in Iraq would transform the Middle East.
In a statement, the university said lack of success in secondary school was the biggest barrier to blacks' admission, noting that "in 2009, 29,000 white students got the requisite grades for Oxford compared to just 452 black students".
"It's the manor house as a statement of corporate or professional success".
