Word: sumptuous
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...course, this is all a tremendous shame for Harvard students, who can say goodbye to red-pepper hummus as they beg, in vain, for the higher powers to dig into our sumptuous endowment...
...none of the pages are composed of words.While sucrose highs might make your thesis loopy, snacks can be an important part of the motivation process. On the rare occasion you leave your room (probably to turn in a draft), stop by Cardullo’s and pick up a sumptuous, overpriced foreign delicacy. It’s not like you’re spending your money on nights out drinking anymore, and brie and camembert taste even better amidst the scattered plastic ruins of a take-out meal from the Kong.(A word on the Kong. If you must indulge...
...Born in 1919 to Eurasian parents - his father was a wealthy Muslim-English lawyer, his mother German-Scottish-Sinhalese - Bawa was, yes, raised with that proverbial silver spoon. Cambridge-educated, he enjoyed an aimless youth of profligate spending, sumptuous taste and spiffy automobiles. The title page of Geoffrey Bawa, a seminal Singaporean monograph published to coincide with the London exhibition, is a money shot of Bawa's twinkling Rolls-Royce. Contemporary Donald Friend - a peripatetic, chain-smoking Australian artist and compulsive diarist - grumbled about Bawa's "grand ducal airs...
Mercifully, there were some concessions to the 21st century. Our gladiatorial boot camp took place in a sumptuous private room at the Rome Cavalieri Hilton, where the only lions on hand were made of marble. We dressed for the part in crimson tunics with rope belts and the kind of strappy sandals that were the height of fashion in the year A.D. 1. The Cavalieri Hilton has the footwear handmade...
...something you either have coursing through your veins or not. Individuals with true style live and breathe it. One of my first encounters with this kind of innate flair occurred in Milan more than a decade ago. I was invited to a dinner at Fulvia Ferragamo's home, a sumptuous apartment filled with tapestries and paintings. The food cooked by the family's chef was delicious. The wine was from the Ferragamos' Tuscan vineyard, Il Borro. Every detail, down to the hostess's warm greeting, spoke to the family's generosity and enthusiasm for life, qualities they inherited from Salvatore...