lavishness

One could also cut back on new productions or their lavishness.

I asked, unable to believe the lavishness of the spread.

But here, in the house, there was only a solid lavishness.

"The Bush inaugural was not anything like this in terms of lavishness," he said.

Authors sometimes seem to compete with each other in the lavishness of their praise.

The formal, traditional wedding is back, in many cases with unprecedented lavishness.

There has also been no limit on lavishness when it comes to parties in the entertainment industry.

The killing of an animal for human pleasure or lavishness is prohibited.

Its lavishness would extract a price from the tribe, but it showed they were of good status.

But for spring, the lavishness of the embellishment has been tempered.

And you know the lavishness of the big ranches, then and now.

Mr. Saunders said he was taking steps to end the lavishness.

And despite its lavishness, her sedan chair confers no dignity.

Wherever he glanced, there was such lavishness as made his head throb.

Through philanthropic lavishness she is trying to "buy" herself into the high strata of society.

The lavishness of the work recalls the great age of cathedral painting.

The audience gasps at the lavishness and cheers the audacity.

What we did not have was variety, lavishness, opulence.

So is the extreme lavishness of the period.

All are handsomely staged, often creating a sense of lavishness from minimal means.

She is suffocating in the artificial lavishness of the limo cabin.

Lavishness on this level is chalked off as the necessary lubricant of Japanese business.

Thorn looked at the garments draped over his arm, surprised by their lavishness.

But the "why" on a party or premium - and its lavishness - is tied to the amount of space lying empty.

The trouble is, how does one distinguish between such occasions and those when lavishness piles up as clutter?