sumptuousness

Example Sentences

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The series looks excellent, re-creating the sumptuousness of the milieu without fetishizing it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024

Half of the album’s new songs are overlaid with strings played by the London Contemporary Orchestra — occasionally for sumptuousness, but more often to create tension and harmonic ambiguity.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2024

I recall being hesitant about the butter, but it added such a rounded, rich sumptuousness that olive oil just doesn't impart.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2023

To tell their story with as much flair and sumptuousness as any other.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2023

She then passed into a second room, decorated with the same sumptuousness, in which was a bed hung with silk curtains, with silver fringe.

From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de