Ever the master of her milieu, she delivers sumptuous descriptions of life among the gentry when England still basked in its imperial glory.
And so I give you, on the centenary of its first publication, The Vagabond by Colette, a rousing novel of love and guile, of vulnerability and vituperative wit, of poetry and self-empowerment, a slim volume scored with little wisdoms, sumptuous descriptions and the "heroic vanity" of an unforgettable cast.
Filled with sumptuous descriptions of Italian life, Lake Como is a heartwarming story about love, self-discovery and the quest for the truth.
The realistic description of the sumptuous banquet in B1 and the wide range of Xenophanes' reported geographical and geological interests all sit poorly with an Eleatic "rationalism" that would dismiss all information gained through our faculties of sense and construct on the basis of reason alone a view of "what is" as a motionless, changeless and eternal unity.
But Wagner pinned his hopes on "Rienzi," which was, by his own description, a grand opera intended to "outdo all previous examples with sumptuous extravagance".
Of course, that's not necessarily a bad thing - and the book will probably make an excellent feature - but sometimes the descriptions of cocktail parties, old cars, sumptuous interior locations, and costumes grow tiresome.
Vacationspot not only offered me the opportunity to book the property completely online but it also gave me about 300 words of property descriptions and a number of photographs of the sumptuous rooms, as well as listings of nearby attractions (in case one grew bored with the castle).
We heard eight songs, all from his settings of the Knaben Wunderhorn poems; the first, Mahler's characteristically straight-faced but lively description of St Anthony preaching to the fishes, took us directly into the sumptuous world of the Second Symphony, the scherzo of which uses the same music.
Zola's repeated descriptions of the extravagant displays of the ever-expanding Ladies Paradisee, as the store is called, are so sumptuous and — with their dearth of periods — breathtaking that they stir up the reader, as the imagined shopper, to a near-pathological excitement.
The interiors were sumptuous.
