The cost of even very skilled labour was low compared to that of the materials, and in the absence of any reliable way of either depositing or investing money, it was turned into lavish objects, in the knowledge that it might well need to be sold or melted down to finance some future project.
Now, croc hunters need only apply for a licence before they're permitted to harvest the eggs, shipping them off to private farms and hatching them so that the reptiles can be turned into lavish fashion items such as boots, wallets, and handbags, the ABC reports.
As might be expected, techniques and materials are by turn lavish, exquisite and bold in the section devoted to Gorgeous Splendor.
("His virtuosity is worthy of gods"). The music, by turns lavish and austere, thrilled me.
Wearing ruched trousers that stopped just below her knees and a black suit jacket of her own design, the ponytailed Ms. McCartney paused at the threshold of her store to critique her own red carpet turn: "Whore, whore, whore," she said, laughing before turning to lavish attention on Pocket, a dachshund-Chihuahua mix wearing a T-shirt designed by his owner, Johnson Hartig of Libertine.
The Knights in turn lavished praise on Mr. Bush.
Dolan, Thomas and Steve Mills, the Madison Square Garden president, took turns lavishing Brown with praise.
The governor was surrounded by a round-table of supporters from a variety of interest groups who took turns lavishing praise on Wilson's work in Sacramento.
But in this James work, turned into a lavish if aloof Merchant Ivory film, the Americans are the corrupters.
Leafing through a copy of last week's TLS round-up, for example, I straightaway turned up a lavish encomium pronounced by AS Byatt over the fiction of Ali Smith ("tales funny and wise").
