Sentence examples for sumptuous robes from inspiring English sources

Obsessively bookish, she wears cream leather gloves, and swathes herself in loose or sumptuous robes.

A minimalist decor – an embroidered curtain, a table and two chairs – serves as a backdrop for these sumptuous robes.

This is a man in sumptuous robes with nothing of substance underneath; beautiful to look at, but as ephemeral and menacing as smoke.

An 1843 triptych measuring more than 30 inches across and called "The Earth Spider Conjures Up Demons at the Mansion of Minamoto no Raiko" depicts a visionary battle between two hordes of ghostly, comically misshapen devils looming in the immediate background as the ailing warrior Raiko lies in his sick bed, and his four bodyguards lounge in sumptuous robes in the foreground.

His superb gold death mask is the most familiar treasure from Tutankhamun's tomb, but few realise the Egyptian pharaoh (1336-1327 BC) was also buried with a whole range of clothing - from sumptuous robes and stunning regalia to his baby clothes, a large supply of clean, neatly folded underwear and even several pairs of socks.

There are three representations of the Pantocratic Christ: in the apse of the right nave, in the bowl of the central apse and in the dome of the cupola, where it is surrounded by a ring of angels attired in the sumptuous robes of the emperors of Byzantium.

Gabriel Berry outfitted both cast and orchestra in sumptuous Indian robes.

His 1567 "The Madonna of the Treasurers" is a group portrait of Venetian dignitaries in sumptuous red robes, mixed up with the Virgin, the baby Jesus and a twisting figure of St. Sebastian that recalls Michelangelo's agonized musculature.

In an 18th-century icon called "The Exaltation of the True Cross," a bearded and crowned saint and a deacon, both in sumptuous gold-trimmed robes and standing on a circular dais, together hold a tall wooden cross, as other saints and congregants look on.

The flowing printed robes and sumptuous touches of fur in the Bohemian court place it somewhere in Central Asia in the days of the Silk Road.

I wished I had $600 to buy my girlfriend the most sumptuous silk-charmeuse-lined black velvet robe I have ever seen.