Sentence examples similar to sumptuous narrative from inspiring English sources
What follows is a visually sumptuous tale of love and honour, politics and social ritual, interwoven with a talismanic narrative about a caged bluebird singing itself to death when presented with its own mirror image (doublings, twins and doppelgangers haunt the story, sometimes to the confusion of unversed audiences, to whom Hou makes few concessions).
But her cancer casts everything in shadow, and tests the relationships that matter most.The narrative is slow, but sumptuous with recipes and reflection.
He brought a gripping sense of narrative flow and a sumptuous palette of colors and textures to Debussy's "Estampes," culminating in a quicksilver performance of "Jardins Sous la Pluie".
At times the narrative feels one whit too literary, the sumptuous writing occasionally trumping the starkness of a situation.
"Kama Sutra," which Nair now calls "an aberration," was a sumptuous, peacock-colored spectacle, sensual in its use of costumes and tableaux, but uncertain in its narrative.
This midcareer survey ranges from erotically suggestive Neo-Expressionist pictures of people in landscapes, done in the 1980's, to recent narrative canvases made like banners that include, like most of the artist's work from the last decade, borders of sumptuous African fabrics.
The interiors were sumptuous.
A sumptuous buffet followed.
The setting is sumptuous.
