sumptuousness

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The “Firebird” Suite blossomed in a rainbow of extravagant orchestral color, while Dudamel brought a new sumptuousness to “Rite of Spring.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

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

Wealth and artistic hands had combined to bring all its sumptuousness into a rich and harmonious completeness.

From The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts by Bentley, Charles S.