As he sings, Mr. Cash sits before a sumptuous table, contemplating a feast he will never touch.
The resplendent buffet at the Operkalleren in Stockholm, initiated in the 1960's by the great restaurateur Tore Wretman, is no more, but Ulriksdals Wardshus, north of town, still sets a sumptuous table.
Ready sumptuous tables laden with krill, shrimp, and small fish: Penguin is turning seventy-five!
At the other end of the finish spectrum, "On the Rocks," by another Frenchman, Eric Schmitt, features sleek, sumptuous tables and vases in a mix of "old" materials (like bronze, blown glass and marble) and new (Corian and anodized aluminum).
Then they approached the Paris editor Alain de Gourcuff, who has published sumptuous coffee table books on Pavlosk, the private rooms in the Kremlin Palace and the Russian aristocracy.
Italy is still one of the world's most attractive countries, a land graced by the arts and blessed by the weather; it is sumptuous at table and abounding in elegance.
In the chapter headed, Formal Dinners, there it was, a photograph of the sumptuous dining table at Mortmar.
Here, there is a private cinema, luxury spa and treatment rooms, and a library stocked with sumptuous coffee-table volumes.
There are sumptuous coffee-table productions from famous restaurants, featuring impossibly complex recipes and gauzy photographs of the resultant architectural extravaganzas.
It can get a bit rich when every shlub who ripped off Hipgnosis or Jamie Reid for some seven-inch gets qualified as an artiste after the fact, but if anybody deserves the sumptuous coffee-table book treatment it's Linder.
As a sumptuous new coffee-table book titled Fender: The Golden Age 1946-70 puts it: "It is a simple, no-frills instrument, yet still regarded as one of the finest electric guitars ever produced..
