Sentence examples for sumptuous feasting from inspiring English sources
The spell began to be cast with the first image in the opening piece, "Yangexing" ("Sumptuous Feasting Song"), when three women stood, still but alert, behind dark translucent screens, their long gracious robes stirred slightly by the wind.
It was a time of sumptuous feasts and also of diplomatic intrigues and bitter quarrels.
They dine with ambassadors at sumptuous feasts, and they share simple meals with farmers.
His restaurant, Asitane in Istanbul, takes its cue from the sumptuous feasts of the 16th century.
A sumptuous feast of chicken in garlic sauce, rice and beer costs $2, tops.
This after finally finishing the extravagant and sumptuous feast that is Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec.
Tortilla Soup Martin, a talented chef (Hector Elizondo), whips up sumptuous feasts for his three remarkably svelte daughters.
This sumptuous feast for the eyes clearly trumps the proletarian vinyl in the Volvo that your English professor used to drive.
The Mayan vessels, decorated with court scenes and hieroglyphics, were used to ceremonially consume chocolate at sumptuous feasts, Ms. Reents-Budet said.
Around this time, in New York and elsewhere, there were Bowery Christmas dinners, where the wealthy paid to watch the poor eat a sumptuous feast.
The notably hard-to-please Thomas Berger professed himself bowled over: "A sumptuous feast of language and wit, 'The Bushwhacked Piano' makes literacy a joy rather than an obligation".
