Sentence examples for sumptuous image from inspiring English sources

If you were thinking PG Wodehouse and Blandings Castle, turn to the sumptuous image of Broughton Castle, in Oxfordshire, and read it praised by no less a writer than Henry James.

It's a sumptuous image, not to mention a compelling space where some of the play's most eventful action can unfold in colorful fashion.

Minnelli, as I mentioned here before, is a paradoxical filmmaker: by means of his splashy and sumptuous images, he delivers a surprisingly probing fascination with institutions and processes.

This reaches a peak in his latest feature, "Summer of Goliath" (which will run concurrently with the retrospective), whose sumptuous images could be real, fictional, or something in between.

It conjures up sumptuous images of delicate muslin drapes being teased by a breeze, Turkish music playing everywhere (in fact my whole orgy scenario seems to have been lifted pretty much wholesale from a Turkish Delight advert), nubile Nubian women entwined about each other like a Henry Moore statue, people decadently devouring grapes.

The movie — which was nominated for six Oscars on Tuesday — is a portrait of the life of an artist, and Anderson's lens captures sumptuous images of the designer and his staff at work: cutting luxurious fabric, smoothing perfect seams, tweaking structured collars.

And in reading about Mexico's Day of the Dead, writes Ms. Karetnikova, Eisenstein found that "in Mexico, as nowhere else, life and death cross each other's path 'in the tragic images of death stamping out life, or in the sumptuous images of the triumph of life over death.' " So with financial backing put together by the wife of the noveliest Upton Sinclair, Eisenstein went to Mexico.

Should I complain?" The upshot was a body of work that, despite a sumptuous public image ("elegantly dressed people getting in and out of carriages and stuff like that"), is unified by nuanced human relationships.

"The theme of the prism is my complicity with Roger Vivier, an expert with scissors in the art of the collage," Mr. Frisoni writes in "Roger Vivier," a sumptuous picture book published by Rizzoli that includes 300 images of current accessories and iconic shoes from Vivier's history.

Instead of inventive images, Miller offers sumptuous ones somehow his images seem too expensive.

Instead of inventive images, Miller offers sumptuous ones — somehow his images seem too expensive.