opulence
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Opulence is revenge, as in one of the best moments in the film “Paris Is Burning” when a Black dancer at a drag show announces: ‘You own everything; everything is yours!’
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2023
Entitled Blood and Opulence, it was unisex and featured greatcoats and gowns with the grandeur of the Russian Revolution, brought down to earth by blood and mud.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2019
This summer's evening series has the theme "Epics & Opulence" and kicks off with the 1929 drama "Piccadilly," set in a London nightclub and starring Anna May Wong.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2012
Courtesy of Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Opulence, bling and luxury provoke powerful responses in an age of austerity, from wistful envy to righteous disgust.
From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2011
Opulence and plenitude of this kind are not common; we are not often granted a man who flings imaginations, fancies and thoughts from him as thick and bright as sparks from a grinder's wheel.
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)
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