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"opulent" Definitions
  1. made or decorated using expensive materials synonym luxurious
  2. (of people) extremely rich synonym wealthy
"opulent" Synonyms
luxurious lavish sumptuous grand plush deluxe palatial magnificent splendid ritzy fancy lush posh luxury extravagant luxuriant swanky rich plushy classy wealthy affluent moneyed loaded prosperous flush monied fat minted propertied oofy well-to-do well-off deep-pocketed silk-stocking well-endowed fat-cat well-heeled well off comfortable bounteous easy well-fixed well-situated plenteous free from hardship bountiful flamboyant conspicuous bold brilliant catchy striking ostentatious brash gaudy showy flashy garish loud splashy overdone glitzy kitsch theatrical abundant copious profuse prolific plentiful profusive liberal generous teeming ample overflowing galore aplenty superabundant plenty shapely curvaceous curvy buxom voluptuous Rubensesque luscious rounded full thicc thick full-figured Junoesque full-bosomed well-proportioned busty sexy hot flourishing booming successful thriving golden prospering buoyant palmy roaring burgeoning fruitful productive profitable blooming expanding fortunate halcyon lucky large hefty considerable extensive significant substantial comprehensive immeasurable populous boundless bumper deep global good handsome abounding awash replete rife fraught inexhaustible infinite swarming thronging full-bodied robust big concentrated heady heavy lusty muscular potent strong fruity intense powerful undiluted ornate elaborate decorated fussy baroque busy florid ornamented rococo beautiful detailed adorned complex complicated elegant embellished glamorous attractive alluring charming entrancing bewitching charismatic enchanting fascinating lovely seductive appealing fashionable smart stylish beguiling captivating chic More
"opulent" Antonyms
ascetic spartan ascetical austere humble no-frills restrained stark depressed economical small plain unadorned basic poor meagre(UK) meager(US) bare insufficient spare penurious destitute impoverished indigent needy penniless poverty-stricken impecunious broke moneyless down and out on the rocks skint necessitous beggared pauperized beggarly needful strapped emaciated thin skinny scrawny gaunt bony lean skeletal angular scraggy undernourished haggard underfed wasted lank pinched cadaverous starved underweight anorexic ordinary simple modest unpretentious unostentatious unassuming discreet common little trivial insignificant lowly manageable obscure unobtrusive plebeian proletarian low-key unimpressive unheroic unimposing small-scale bad calm low moderate unimportant unsuccessful unprosperous failed failing unprofitable unfortunate unlucky hopeless unpromising weak frustrated luckless losing hapless lacking ill-fated ill-omened loss-making inelegant graceless awkward clumsy unsophisticated gauche gross undignified indelicate styleless tasteless uncultivated ungraceful unmannerly unrefined blundering coarse crude gangling gawky deficient substandard defective faulty imperfect abject inferior mediocre atrocious cheap unacceptable worthless wretched grotty inadequate rubbishy unsatisfactory rotten inconsiderable empty limited minimal minimum miserly sparse woeful derisory exiguous fractional insipid insubstantial measly unrewarding fruitless insolvent inutile profitless unlucrative futile gainless unavailing unbeneficial bankrupt bankrupted collapsing declining destroyed dying boyish flat unkinglike unkingly mild delicate weakened temperate bland light flavourless(UK) flavorless(US) spiceless savorless thinned

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It launched that vision with an opulent — and carpeted!
Jump right in with an opulent yet elemental citrus salad.
This "frantic" phenomenology introduces the opulent beauty of Frantic Beauty.
Their poignant incompleteness offers the opulent opportunity for ambiguous gazing.
I have never personally experienced such opulent primping and polishing.
In fact, it's a little too opulent for my tastes.
Opulent homes on many continents, each with a private zoo?
The couple's combined success allows them to lead opulent lives.
It seemed a virtuous afterlife: the world's most opulent flophouse.
It's lavish, opulent, and traditional, but stylish and well maintained.
The garments combine opulent Old World forms and functional fabrics.
It's a different interpretation of nature that's opulent and generous.
Château Clinet Rich and opulent (Monsieur Touton, New York, $80).
You're in an opulent mood for much of July, little crab.
Taurus is one of the most opulent signs in the zodiac.
Inarguably opulent, the house has had its fair share of problems.
It's wish fulfillment on par with the show's nonsensically opulent apartments.
In a room on the 35th floor, things still felt opulent.
Netanyahu has exploited her husband's office to finance her opulent tastes.
The first is opulent; the second is tough, almost battle-ready.
Rob Howell's sets depicting opulent neo-Classical architecture are handsome enough.
"Iris," opulent and eerie, exposes the inadequacy of the term. ♦
Try out the opulent tasting menu, which costs $135 per person.
First lady Melania Trump will accompany the president to the opulent ballroom.
Big bands and opulent celebrations were scrapped as the cultural mood darkened.
Nutella is luscious, indulgent, and opulent, and the café should follow suit.
The wines were opulent and fleshy with plenty of soft, dark fruit.
The poems ranged from opulent to stark, and from abstract to representational.
Acer's final monitor of CES is an opulent curved 20:9 display.
The brand is popular among celebrities for its bold and opulent designs.
Just outside the main hospital, I was impressed by the opulent architecture.
Both concern friends assembling at an opulent Southern mansion for a reckoning.
The opulent Florida mansion features a gold-plated and Swarovski crystal chandelier.
It's iPhone day at the opulent new Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino.
They worked out in a gym and ate in an opulent cafeteria.
In recent years, it has become known for its opulent, ostentatious gifts.
Alex Timbers's opulent production starts previews June 28, at the Al Hirschfeld.
An elaborate globe chandelier is a reminder of the building's opulent past.
"It's an opulent setting, the most beautiful racetrack you could ever imagine."
The term sustainable travel has been inextricably tied to opulent eco-travel.
Upscale apartment blocks and opulent mansions abut hillside slums and urban blight.
Because there's no more opulent way to spend your coin then eating bugs.
After all, the car needs to be as opulent as it is fast.
Much of that money, prosecutors argued, was used to maintain Manafort's opulent lifestyle.
Much of that money, prosecutors contended, was used to maintain Manafort's opulent lifestyle.
The most opulent scenes in Crazy Rich Asians turn almost immediately into overkill.
These people care about — they live opulent lifestyles, they care about their wallet.
This 123th-century Anglo-Norman castle delivers turrets, a moat and opulent rooms.
It's slightly more modest on the outside, but still opulent on the inside.
This voluminous ballgown is opulent enough to make any bride green with envy.
Mr. Pape brought opulent sound and affecting dignity to the king's aching monologue.
Keep scrolling to look at what remains of this once opulent vacation spot.
Under opulent chandeliers, guests eat sushi and drink Chateau Sociando-Mallet Bordeaux 2011.
Because there's no more opulent way to spend your coin than eating bugs.
Scholars and students fill the Jaffna library, an opulent, Indo-Saracenic-style edifice.
Alone in her room in their opulent home, she wept quietly at night.
Ryan Speedo Green sounded fuller and more opulent as the high priest, Oroe.
The flesh is thick and opulent, while the flavor is light and subtle.
Glistening and opulent as it may be now, it has a long history.
The 12-foot ceiling and elaborate chandelier gave the room an opulent feel.
Alessandro Talevi's staging was opulent and fittingly whimsical for the kitchen-sink plot.
Mr. Millepied wanted "something more opulent than what's usually done," Mr. Lacroix said.
The moonlit scenes, juxtaposing opulent architecture with the raw landscape, seem suspended in time.
Theron's Ravenna looks the part of the grand, opulent sorceress she's meant to be.
Today our President will sit in his opulent golf resort attacking hurricane first responders.
Christine's opulent, $1,000-per-hour universe is something she creates, controls, and rules over.
Over two opulent albums, the Las Vegas quartet delivered spine-tingling, arena-rock catharsis.
Ultimately, the mother of two chose an opulent, embellished high-neck Ralph & Russo gown.
The comedian lives in a mansion in an "opulent gated community" in Tarzana, California.
Lopez chose an opulent embellished high-neck Ralph & Russo gown — right off the runway!
McGrady was still cooking "crazy" opulent meals when he joined her household in 1993.
On paper, it seems like opulent overkill, but in person, it sounds just right.
The MSB Select system is over-engineering at its most opulent and resplendent best.
Gold and red castle-chic furnishings throughout public spaces add to the opulent feeling.
And naturally, they live in some of the most opulent homes in the city.
But the first buildings commissioned at the site were more traditional - opulent seaside palaces.
"Dinero" is grand and opulent, one could argue it's even better than the song.
He prefers working with organizations that are trying to get the opulent spaces restored.
Valpolicella itself tends to be light- to medium-bodied wine, fragrant but not opulent.
Beyond the opulent mansions of the Hamptons, one resident has created an ultraminimalist aerie.
Western churches are bright and opulent but our temples are quite, dim, and dark.
As for what churns beneath its opulent surface, it's still a rather dreary slog.
The story-within-a-story opens in an opulent Manhattan hotel room in 1942.
It's opulent, too — a fitting way to bring the curtain down on Balanchine's birthday.
The Fairmont San Francisco is an opulent hotel on the top of Knob Hill.
I've never been, but the place is known for its opulent European-inspired interior.
The Napoleon III-style interiors feature blown-glass chandeliers, opulent stone and embroidered silk.
" Kors calls the dress "opulent, sexy and sleek," and "the ultimate in baby bump glamour.
From opulent temples to bustling markets, see the best the city has to offer below.
Beyond its luxurious hotels, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat is known for its opulent historic villas.
Sebastiano invited Tomas to Bonmartini family gatherings, in opulent dining halls and on countryside terraces.
And just in case that wasn't opulent enough, doubling down with a delicate diamond anklet.
Notebooks, commuter mugs, and flash drives are not sensual or opulent, and certainly not sexy.
Crazy Rich Asians is a fantasy, and a beautiful, opulent, often funny one at that.
It's an opulent alter of sorts that contains many symbols of blessings for the couple.
While most applauded the holiday message, many were distracted by the Queen's opulent gold piano.
First and foremost he's rock's proudest peacock, prone to the opulent, outrageous and occasionally ostentatious.
Its lobby, while handsome, is not much more opulent than a typical neighborhood public library.
Opulent British billionaire Richard Branson owned a yacht, until he sold it this past September.
The lobby is beautiful, with opulent chandeliers, a faux finish tray ceiling, and gold elevators.
Neiman Marcus's notoriously opulent holiday offerings included collard greens for $66, before they sold out.
This man dropped back into the pocket and whipped up an opulent kind of pass.
He wanted the finished product to be opulent, titanic, heartbreaking and above all, compulsively watchable.
NB: We always envisioned the show as a visual feast, opulent and rich and sensory.
Decades later, Jewish families arrived by train to play shuffleboard and swim in opulent hotels.
High/Low One is an opulent palazzo, the other a combination hostel and budget hotel.
It's also one of the most upscale, opulent, and expensive hotels within Walt Disney World.
The foundation conducted experiments in an opulent seaside mansion in Maine designed by Stanford White.
And then there are those bold enough to convert commercial airliners into opulent flying palaces.
It may seem unrelated, but bin Salman has also been on an opulent buying spree.
When the tournament begins next year, the tennis center will probably be even more opulent.
Whereas everything else in the museum is in really bright, opulent spaces with natural light.
Yanukovych, the Ukrainian president, lived an opulent lifestyle as well — particularly for a lifelong public servant.
And that meant buoyant, campaign-style remarks in the opulent East Room of the White House.
It links country, leafy suburbs, the opulent city, tourist delights (and traps) and grotty northern banlieues.
After the revolution the opulent villa became a government guest-house, but it was preserved unchanged.
So too is the opulent, pale silk gown by Balenciaga constructed with only a single seam.
Used with abandon, vibrato produces the kind of opulent wobble popular imagination identifies with opera singers.
Each song, "Django Jane" and "Make Me Feel," was released alongside opulent, visually stunning music videos.
The world of Big Little Lies is opulent and romantic, as well as treacherous and threatening.
The units I saw were still certainly opulent, sporting statement-making rose gold and white leather.
You're in a materialistic mood today, Aries, with the Moon in opulent, fancy Earth sign Taurus.
A few years ago, a flat-bed seat in business class would have been considered opulent.
It smelled amazing as soon as I walked in, and the interior was opulent and traditional.
On a recent trip to Russia in June, I spent a night in the opulent suite.
But some airlines are clinging to first-class cabins, and making them more opulent than ever.
"It is quite opulent in design, with that old school touch of decor and customer service."
Sotheby's marketing goes a step further, with some pieces photographed off-site in opulent period interiors.
And this was crucial, in that sublime and exclusive room, almost too opulent for this world.
Waiters roamed the vast, opulent Ritz-Carlton Hotel, offering pale Saudi coffee and exotic fruit drinks.
Crackling underneath Crazy Rich Asians' opulent veneer is a complicated story about identity and American assimilation.
CreditCreditDina Litovsky for The New York Times A shabbily dressed man walked into an opulent restaurant.
JA: I really wanted to work with artists that are using a maximalist, opulent, baroque aesthetic.
His generous corporate travel stipends covered opulent honeymoon suites with views of volcanoes and stunning beaches.
It is filled with opulent, custom-built mansions currently listed for as much as $4 million.
Mounds of corpses mount toward heaven from the blood-slicked floor of Titus' opulent banquet room.
The hotel is Southern, traditional and opulent, but with contemporary amenities and close to everything downtown.
Since 1956 the villa and its opulent contents have been a charming but often overlooked museum.
I've had charming pinot noirs, made in a fresh, delicate style rather than with opulent fruit.
The condo may be cozy ... but it feels massive, thanks to high ceilings and opulent finishes.
The Metropolitan Opera continues to dominate the city's opera scene, attracting superstars and mounting opulent productions.
The moon enters opulent fire sign Leo today, lighting up the financial sector of your chart.
But Jackson had a contractual arrangement that allowed him to stay in a more opulent setting.
"Today our President will sit in his opulent golf resort attacking hurricane first responders," tweeted Sen.
At first it suggests a timeline, with a pyramid, sphinx, steamboat, and opulent palaces along it.
After exchanging vows and partying the night away in New Orleans at their opulent wedding on Nov.
Diaconu whips out her finest (read: awesomely weird) dance moves as she shimmies around an opulent mansion.
Take a look ahead to see the jaw-droppingly elaborate home and all of its opulent features.
Australia's former richest person, Gina Rinehart, has been pushed off her opulent perch by an American recluse.
Historically, the opulent headpieces have been left to those deemed God's terrestrial right hands — kings and queens.
Venus enters opulent, ambitious Sagittarius on Friday, November 1, and indulgence and adventure are on the itinerary.
Senior officials, normally given to opulent robes, regularly come to workshops in simple clothes, say some attendees.
My style is a bit all or nothing — sometimes it's super opulent, other times it's very minimal.
A Nutcracker that keeps the wintertime magic of Tchaikovsky's opulent score, while speaking the language of Brooklyn.
Courtney Noelle: Courtney Smith truly knows her way around sequins, fringe, satin, and other super opulent materials.
He also gained a $163.8 million tax break on Trump Tower, his opulent building in midtown Manhattan.
The negative effects on the startup culture run much deeper than opulent offices and free organic coffee.
The smartphone is a commodity, and no amount of blusterous talk or opulent specs will change that.
The Alexandria trial showcased how Manafort was becoming increasingly desperate over his declining income and opulent lifestyle.
While best known for opulent New Orleans, Louisiana's poverty rate is actually the highest in the nation.
Upstairs, an opulent master suite includes a fur-filled sitting room heated by a $50,000 designer fireplace.
It isn't perfect but it is impressive and by far the most opulent SUV you can buy.
An opulent vegetarian dish presented deep purple segments of eggplant, sautéed and sweetened with a tamarind sauce.
It was opulent, it was ridiculous, it was pure pageantry — and it was well worth the memory.
It is a very opulent train, and the cinematography by Haris Zambarloukos gets all its ornate detail.
Up Next Salehe Bembury dreams up the opulent fashion sneakers sought after by hypebeasts and art stars.
New developments across the city are repurposing the opulent spaces where New Yorkers once deposited their savings.
It's large, relatively new, brimming with opulent amenities — and yet, it has gone years without a buyer.
He understood the dark side of it, the opulent side of it, the madness and the vulnerability.
Trump has spent part of 58 days at the opulent private estate during his time in office.
A dozen or so opulent mansions preserved from the Gilded Age invite tourists in for gawking tours.
In Dubai, Bhutto meets Shah Rukh Khan for an interview in an opulent Versace furnished hotel suite.
What's your reaction to the image above of the fast-food buffet in such an opulent setting?
He understood the dark side of it, the opulent side of it, the madness and the vulnerability.
Issep is based, for the moment, in a small office space in an opulent district of Lyon.
At her Long Island home, Deborah Nevins finds respite from the opulent environments she's celebrated for creating.
Every episode approaches 90 minutes in length, with opulent production values that practically drip off the screen.
Zelda is next whisked off to her new home, the opulent honeymoon suite at the swanky Biltmore Hotlel.
Trump's opulent Mar-a-Lago is an estate that Marie Antoinette would have felt right at home in.
Anyone who's set foot in a Catholic church has observed the opulent visual language of the institutional Church.
The show invites us into the Chrisley family's opulent homes, first near Atlanta and more recently in Nashville.
Wall Street titans including Mr. Schwarzman attended opulent ceremonies to celebrate the two countries' financial and political ties.
I remember us standing at the Opulent Temple camp and [thinking] 'Oh my gosh, this music totally sucks.
We like: The opulent rooms felt as elegant as I expected from such a high-end luxury hotel.
Anyone can sketch out a romantic, enticing, opulent, fantastic — and unrealistic — concept for many years into the future.
Paris Haute Couture Week is always a dreamy, opulent, celeb-filled fashion fest — this we know as fact.
However, the negative effects on the startup culture run much deeper than opulent offices and free organic coffee.
While the opulent buildings of Vegas' heyday may lay in shambles, the spirit of the city lives on.
The opulent houses, with lavish pools, flowing bars and world-class chefs, are not new to Olympics hospitality.
Aboard the Shiki-Shima, commuters have access to lavish Champagne-colored exteriors, opulent suites, and Michelin-approved chefs.
Perhaps in the image above, Vanellope wandered into some sort of opulent chatroom where only princesses are allowed.
The opulent Spanish arches and plush palm trees throughout the property's exterior give it a unique Florida flair.
The opulent box is thought to have been a unique commission made for an individual of high rank.
Long-haul airlines have been battling for rich customers by decking out their first classes with opulent suites.
I also preferred the interior decor, service, and overall vibe at Sacher — it felt grand, opulent, and special.
Down the hall is an opulent ballroom that holds special events such as the hotel's weekend magic shows.
The very poorest Californians, by comparison, are in the agricultural areas, not cheek by jowl with the opulent.
The Golden Mile has a mix of architectural styles, from opulent Art Nouveau buildings to modern, glassy buildings.
A signature dessert called banoffee combines banana, coffee and chocolate in an opulent custard dome flecked with nutmeg.
About three percent of the population lives in opulent splendor on an island wonderland in the Atlantic Ocean.
That is to say, opulent but lithe, perfectly proportioned in beauty and poise, long-legged and small-waisted.
The couple was slated to hold their reception at Castle Howard, an opulent estate in the English countryside.
None of this seems to have made the slightest dent in Mr. Trump's opulent lifestyle over the years.
VICE founder Shane Smith sat down with Berlusconi at his opulent home near Milan to discuss Russia-U.
"Joke Ting," the album's second track, creates an opulent tapestry of Afrobeat and dancehall rhythms and intricate musicianship.
It's a western suburb of Chicago, a pretty opulent community full of white picket fences and golden retrievers.
Hikmat outfitted his living quarters on KAF with flat-screen TVs and opulent furniture, including an oversized bed.
You're getting carried away with the party vibes as opulent Jupiter clashes with Neptune, the planet of fantasy.
The penthouse also has a total of six bathrooms, including two with opulent bathtubs like the one pictured.
Rather than being an opulent display of luxury, it's more like a well-appointed New York City apartment.
"I was so sickened and angry about the amount of opulent brass and moody glass lighting," he said.
For some, such opulent scenes might have jarred with the social unrest that brewed outside the gilded doors.
The opulent eight-finger bar allows customers to choose from 1,500 flavor combinations, and also features personalized packaging.
In more luxurious digs, a budget of $34,680 a year ($2,363 a month) would bankroll an opulent lifestyle.
Understated and opulent as usual, the collection started off with gray suiting before moving into rich jewel tones.
On a recent trip to Miami, I got a tour from Gonzalez of the opulent home he's selling.
Lok lak may sound like an opulent dinner choice, but the prices at Lemongrass are more than reasonable.
So naturally, her dress was opulent, traditional and gave off major "bride on top of a wedding cake" vibes.
Set against a backdrop of old Bezos family photos at the opulent Orpheum Theater, Jeff revealed his personal philosophy.
It's sexy, opulent and always extravagant but sadly often lacking true diversity whether that be size, ability or race!
Eugenie's simple beauty look made it so all eyes were on her exquisite Peter Pilotto gown and opulent tiara.
Of course, psychedelic kitsch and opulent color schemes are far from absent, and often fuel RAVE's most memorable work.
Although still opulent by local standards, the compound's perimeter fence was broken and it suffered an infestation of snakes.
But besides cutting costs on opulent show stands, manufacturers are increasingly courting buyers through blogs and web-based events.
"We know the Wolfs furnished their house in an opulent way, but we know very few details," he said.
The opulent oasis includes three individual suites and two ballrooms, which took years and hundreds of craftsmen to restore.
The suburb's opulent homes are tucked away in the trees and hidden behind high walls lined with security cameras.
High-paying customers were met with sodden mattresses in FEMA tents, rather than the opulent villas they were promised.
Coastal cities like Charleston might make South Carolina seem opulent, but the state's high poverty rate shows another side.
"It's the most extravagant, opulent thing you can purchase in New York City," Serendipity owner Stephen Bruce tells CNBC.
The William Vale rises from its two- and three-story surroundings like an opulent monument surrounded by nondescript headstones.
Jamie and Claire adjust to their opulent new lives in France and have an advantageous meeting with Prince Charles.
The family owns the Detroit Tigers, the Red Wings, Little Caesars Arena, and the opulent, 1920s-era Fox Theatre.
The opulent structure sits high above L.A. on four acres of land, offering incomparable views of the city's skyline.
The planet of affection and luxury, Venus, enters Aries today, inspiring you to enjoy a more rich, opulent lifestyle.
Once inside the grand building, Sam enters one of the most opulent spaces we have seen in the series.
During the years that Mr. Akhmedov amassed his wealth, the couple regularly toggled between hostilities and opulent cease-fires.
The 11,600-square-foot home offers stunning views of the coast and combines opulent architecture with eclectic interior design.
The hotel is exceedingly opulent from the second you pull up in front of its striking, bronze horse fountain.
It also coincides with a shift by many wealthy shoppers away from buying luxury goods and toward opulent experiences.
Built in 913, the opulent, bayfront Hotel Esplanade was the epicenter of society life in St. Kilda's early days.
Cons: These bungalows are more rustic looking and clustered closer together than some of the more opulent options elsewhere.
During the years that Mr. Akhmedov amassed his wealth, the couple regularly toggled between hostilities and opulent cease-fires.
There's also a lentil soup spiked with lime juice, and an opulent meringue rolled up with cream and cherries.
It&aposs supposed to be incredibly... amazing and opulent inside, yeah, yeah, yeah, so where did they cut corners?
Ranging from budget-friendly to exotic and opulent, the choices all offer uniquely immersive stays, with prime park access.
And no better sequence summarizes the opulent and over-the-top series better than its brand new opening credits.
This suite has views of Glendevon and Ochil Hills, opulent decor including a canopy bed, and tons of space.
That single case would, in time, open a window onto opulent Romanov balls, glamorous coronations, and extravagant maharajas' banquets.
But half of the residents are Jewish, and some tenants feel unwelcome by the extensive and opulent Christmas display.
This all makes sense: A weird (but immensely popular) cult wine deserves an unconventional (but still massive and opulent) facility.
Also, Venus loves beautiful, opulent things, so be on the look out for some amazing finds when you go shopping.
With that, the leaders gave a quick handshake and their private meeting in the opulent Gothic Hall was under way .
The mergers of that period, unlike the opulent, record-breaking deal of 2007, were hasty, embarrassed dashes to the altar.
In 1985, Trump scooped up Mar-a-Lago, the opulent estate built by Marjorie Merriweather Post in Palm Beach, Fla.
Nevertheless, as The Witch began to take its final form in decidedly less opulent London town, Pumarosa found their balance.
The second the star hit the red carpet on Monday night, Twitter blew up with praise for her opulent attire.
The princess Irene Galitzine was acquainted firsthand with the ballrooms and opera house foyers where her opulent fashions were worn.
However, a sequined neckline in red, green and gold accents and ruffled sleeves turn the look from ordinary to opulent.
Like any JAY-Z release, 206:443 is an opulent set of songs, with expensive samples and A-list guests.
An unshackled media and many Malaysians are openly demanding to know how Rosmah was able to afford an opulent lifestyle.
The trailer isn't opulent or even particularly well-ventilated, but it's been our home, and it deserves to be recognized.
The island is saturated with bright hues, and the opulent ball gowns—of course there are ball gowns—practically glow.
The rising style star married longtime boyfriend James Rothschild in an opulent ceremony at Kensington Palace in London last July.
Every breakfast feels opulent in the mansion's egg-shaped breakfast nook, where the walls are adorned with 24-karat gold.
Read more: We visited Russia's opulent UK embassy at the height of a diplomatic crisis — here's what it was like
The region is known as a rural haven for the wealthy and is home to opulent Gilded Age-era mansions.
This is an expensive hotel, but the price yields a spacious room, prime location, opulent bathrooms, and upscale butler services.
The opulent home has been on and off the market since 2013, when it was initially listed for $114 million.
The next day, tour the Oak Alley and Laura plantations — two opulent antebellum mansions about an hour from New Orleans.
Those lucky enough to be invited to Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas' opulent wedding weekend are already having a blast.
Anna Netrebko, who has championed "Iolanta" recently, spreads her opulent voice atop Tchaikovsky's cakelike score; Ms. Yoncheva slices through it.
But the distinctive quality all musks share is a certain lushness, a tendency to smell as opulent as cashmere feels.
The day culminated with the opulent formal dinner, where men wear white tie coats with tails and women evening gowns.
A luxury camp at Burning Man known for hosting exclusive, opulent parties on the Playa was allegedly vandalized last week.
"He was motivated in part by greed and the desire to live an opulent and lavish lifestyle," SDNY prosecutors wrote.
The opulent lifestyle of the Andrade family was as spectacular as the economic collapse of the country they left behind.
Its rooms are cozily opulent, and at the back, a small courtyard garden offers a secluded spot for fresh air.
Ms. Williams accused her of stealing more than $60,000 for an opulent trip they took together to Marrakesh in 2017.
Those are some of the more than 80 opulent gifts Saudi Arabia gave President Trump when he visited in May.
I've stopped counting all the versions I've seen of "Follies," which include the opulent original (my very first Broadway show).
Ten years ago, fed up with the opulent Mughal-influenced wedding market, he decided to focus primarily on men's wear.
Elegant models, in headbands evoking 15th-century ferronnières, wear opulent gowns adorned with cloaks, puffy sleeves and flowing black lace.
Bromhead says that she and O'Hara aligned immediately in that they'd be pulling from Moira's well-traveled and opulent life.
The stately hotel, which opened in 1923, is an opulent mix of Spanish-Italian Renaissance revival and Beaux-Arts design.
The photos of opulent surroundings and the descriptions of fancy appetizers suggest to me that the journalists are being played.
These are properties where no detail is overlooked, service is impeccable, the design is opulent, and rooms are tastefully elegant.
With the opulent Spanish endurance saga "Solo" — a title that translates as "Alone" — Netflix enters that curiously well-populated territory.
The group hides out in an opulent department store overnight, where a friend and supporter works as a security guard.
LONDON — Wrapped in a turban and a mink-lined robe, the old man sits in his opulent home, smiling wryly.
Also, plenty of Hawaiian shirts slashed to the navel, snake-hipped merino tailoring and opulent jacquard Laura Ashley-style florals.
Photos of the subway stops available to tourists are almost shockingly opulent, showing high arched ceilings and well-decorated colonnades.
The nature of Kickstarter, and other crowd-funding platforms besides, encourages manufacturers to create a product that borders on the opulent.
Her outfits included everything from opulent bejeweled leotards and embellished capes, to a classic yellow hoodie and distressed Levi's jean shorts.
Celebrity manicurist Tom Bachik created the most opulent, embellished mani that features — yes — actual $100 dollar bills lacquered onto her tips.
"The hand-draped bodice and sculptural peplum make an opulent statement," Chapman (below, fitting the gown to Vergara's curves) tells PEOPLE.
As a resident of South Florida, surrounded by his opulent properties, the Trump name represented an elite, professional real estate operation.
The hotel, which officially opens on Saturday, featured opulent installations and a French fine-dining restaurant by Michelin chef Marc Meneau.
Yes, edible gold flowers on top complete the effect just in case the gold dust wasn't quite opulent enough for you.
Some are reportedly being held in Riyadh's opulent Ritz-Carlton, which told paying guests to leave and stopped accepting new bookings.
Apple's annual fall unveil kicks off tomorrow at 10AM PT, christening the company's opulent new Steve Jobs Theater in the process.
To mark to occasion, Buckingham Palace has re-released a famous photo showing the Queen wearing some seriously opulent sapphire jewellery.
The opulent 1920s-themed restaurant would make Jay Gatsby feel at home with its many mirrors, palms, and Art Deco chandeliers.
Red Lips is an opulent white floral, Pink Lips is a solar floral coconut & Nude Lips is a vanilla amber musk.
Williams topped her male counterparts when she wore this ludicrously opulent Audemars Piguet Diamond Outrage to the Met Gala in 2017.
Published to accompany Jay's recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Matthias Buchinger" is illustrated primarily from Jay's opulent collection.
Michael Krass did the too-opulent costumes, which have splashes of Leon Bakst and the Ballets Russes for the party sequence.
BEIJING — Three decades ago, the Chinese tycoon Chen Dongsheng became enchanted by televised glimpses he caught of Europe's opulent auction houses.
Goulding and Jopling were slated to enjoy a reception later Saturday at Howard Castle, an opulent estate in the English countryside.
The Biennale des Antiquaires has reinvented itself as an elegant and opulent fair to vie with Tefaf Maastricht and Frieze Masters.
Despite the opulent surroundings of their "prison," many of those held at the Ritz-Carlton suffered real abuse, according to Hubbard.
In March 1957, when Elvis Presley was 22, he purchased an opulent mansion in Memphis, called Graceland, for just over $100,000.
The men were led outside and driven for two hours to a house on what looked like an opulent private ranch.
Mr. Ben Ali, 81, the first of the Arab autocrats to be ousted, enjoyed what critics called an obscenely opulent life.
Their wines are fresh and light, almost the antithesis of the powerful, opulent wines that have been more typical in Texas.
He also spent profligately on books for his grand library at Carlton House, his opulent home on Pall Mall in London.
"You've got it made," Tara's mother (the great Frances Barber) says, eyeing her opulent home and loving husband, Mark (Dominic Cooper).
The discussions continued this past week in the hallways and restaurants of the opulent Grand Hyatt hotel in Beijing, where Mrs.
It has islands shaped like palm trees, opulent restaurants, spas with treatments worthy of a maharajah, and an indoor ski area.
Mr. Epstein, however, was not even supposed to become the owner of the opulent stone house on the Upper East Side.
His formal wear is anchored by opulent iterations of the bandhgala jacket, including silk velvets with handmade buttons and brocade linings.
The collection encompassed all that we've come to expect from Gurung: a kaleidoscope of colors, opulent patterns, multidimensional textures, striking silhouettes.
The high status of a grande (if unknown) dame is confirmed by her opulent array of black velvet, lace and pearls.
At the opulent Kings Theater, the show was a meticulous, full-scale rock concert; the most satisfyingly varied of the three.
But the ultra-rich can afford a much more indulgent menu item: The "Opulent Sundae," which goes for $1,000 a pop.
Theia constructed gowns in true baroque fashion, with rich and opulent embroideries and modern form-fitting silhouettes adorned in crystal beadwork.
The bathroom was opulent and stocked with, an essential for me in luxury hotels, a pair of plush white cotton robes.
President Trump, with his steaks and his golf courses and his gilded rooms, is like the anti-minimalist: opulent, ostentatious, overwhelming.
The moment you walk through the doors, its opulent entrance screams elegance, but the home has a wild side hidden outback.
The director David McVicar's opulent production of the opera is showing at the Opera House in February, conducted by Daniel Oren.
That room closed, but the hotel continued to serve food in its spacious silver-toned lounge, bedecked with opulent crystal chandeliers.
They get to host the Super Bowl, sell naming rights to other corporations, and build increasingly opulent and expensive premium seating.
Instead of having our "first look" in a local community garden, the hotel generously allowed us to use their opulent event space.
Craftsmanship goes courtside with the opulent stained-glass backboards, gilded basketballs, roped-off trophies, and chain mail jerseys from artist Victor Solomon.
The pigment could also be mixed to create bright yellows and rich blues, perfect for the Victorian craze for opulent interior design.
Another item necessary for my job is tea, which is today considered an everyday staple in Britain but was once deemed opulent.
RIALTO THEATRE Mia and Sebastian head to the opulent theatre for a screening of another classic LA film, Rebel Without a Cause.
While opulent in visual impact they are in fact quite lean and focused in emotional content, making them all the more powerful.
The exclusive coastal community, known for its yacht-filled harbor and opulent historic villas, is home to only about 1,600 permanent residents.
But for something as opulent as having a hair colorist on speed-dial must seem, Cunningham is most likely used to it.
For the last few years, she's not only followed the dress code, but worn the most opulent, over-the-top creations imaginable.
From opulent decor and luxurious seating to spectacular outdoor settings and gourmet food and drink, these venues are truly worth the trip.
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"Made Men" (2011) Drake and Ross reunite again to rap about their respective opulent lifestyles which include money, women, and designer clothes.
That being said, it's still fun to imagine it figuring as an eccentric piece of home decor in a particularly opulent abode.
The sets are opulent, the costumes are expensive and these characters all live in the rarefied bubble that is Delhi high society.
Prosecutors say he's amassed a fortune, including an opulent mansion near the Champs-Elysees, along with Bugattis, Ferraris and an Aston Martin.
Daniel Humm and Will Guidara, who own the opulent NoMad restaurant and bar, will open a fast-casual offshoot called Made Nice.
"Some of those spaces are incredibly opulent and done with a much greater level of detail than the (public areas)," Jenne said.
However, the once-opulent resort is now crumbling, abandoned, and has been declared a public danger as the spa's architecture rapidly deteriorates.
This is like medieval rivalry where you have kings fighting over their opulent palaces, and everyone is trying to demonstrate their power.
He filled his opulent sets with chandeliers, furniture, and other 19th-century relics on loan from over 40 museums across the USSR.
Crew members were hammering behind him at the opulent set, with its staircase built for flouncing down O'Hara-style, and twinkling chandeliers.
For a day at the museum, visit the stunning Getty Villa just off PCH and gawk at the opulent Roman-inspired architecture.
Lutèce closed on Valentine's Day in 2004, a victim, in part, of indifference to opulent dining, whose decline Mr. Surmain had predicted.
They bought the nicest dresses and new makeup; they wore the most opulent jewelry, which they had purchased with their employee discounts.
Every traveler has a different criteria: some love grand properties with opulent décor, while others prefer small places with a personal touch.
He didn't like being so close to the Met, where his shoestring productions would be compared with the opulent ones next door.
Estimated to raise at least $239 million for Rockefeller charities, the sale will include more than 21815 lots of opulent European porcelain.
She appeared in court in an austere black head scarf and baggy white blouse, a contrast from the opulent styles she designed.
They deride the rich weekenders who attend the expensive sessions at Asana, an opulent retreat, but they wonder what it's like inside.
The next day, the governor holed up in La Fortaleza, the opulent 16th-century palace that serves as the official governor's residence.
I love Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon, though I don't find the dominant style of opulent, powerfully fruity wines to be particularly interesting.
The retail tycoon gave the financier carte blanche to manage his billions, elevating Mr. Epstein's stature and affording him an opulent lifestyle.
The Vines was built in 2180 and features opulent Edwardian decor, beautiful fireplaces, intricately-carved mahogany paneling and a stained-glass dome.
The McKinney one, though bigger and more opulent than almost any high school facility outside America, is the 32nd-biggest in Texas.
The birthplace of the tango has wide boulevards, beautiful parks, and stunning historic buildings, like the Teatro Colón, an opulent opera house.
Wide, leafy boulevards and enormous, opulent palaces are side-by-side with winding alleys and cobblestone squares full of horse-drawn carriages.
They allege that he resorted to bank fraud to continue funding his opulent lifestyle when Yanukovych was removed from power in 2014.
Everything from the cracked white subway tiles to the opulent Art Deco ceiling dates back to its days as a butcher shop.
The opulent 20183 Beaux-Arts building that houses the Board of Trade in Rosario, Argentina's agricultural capital, evokes those days of grandeur.
The opulent, sterile rooms are visited by some of the birds alluded to in the film's title, omens of change and catastrophe.
This is churrasco, Brazilian barbecue, opulent and austere at once, the meat scarcely adorned and tasting only of itself, salt and fire.
People often conflate cinematic TV with any project where lots of money has been spent and the sets and costumes are opulent.
He spoke with Reuters for 30 minutes in a suite at Riyadh's opulent Ritz-Carlton hotel, where he has been held since November.
Will Trump ditch the executive digs altogether to spend most of his nights surrounded by the opulent comforts of his Trump Tower home?
If you love period drama and production design porn, allow me to introduce you to the opulent world of director Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
Dozens of top officials and businessmen were detained in the purge, many of them confined and interrogated at Riyadh's opulent Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Perhaps one of the most opulent creations from Fallen Furniture is this Cluster Bombs Drink Cabinet, made from a MK1 practice cluster bomb.
In countries where private occupational pensions play a large part, such as America and Britain, they have become less opulent and more uncertain.
He socialized with British royalty and rubbed elbows with Donald Trump Jr. He opened an opulent outlet on Madison Avenue in New York.
In both, the opulent lifestyles were supported by the backbreaking labour of others, serfs in Russia (until 1861), slaves in the American South.
I've seen a whole bunch of keyboards this week at Computex Taipei, but none quite so opulent as this exclusive offering from HyperX.
An extreme illustration can be seen in the oil-rich Gulf, where migrants are ruthlessly excluded from the opulent welfare that citizens enjoy.
He has since overseen construction of a long list of public amenities, including a water park, equestrian center, opulent nursery and pediatric hospital.
Opulent Oceans continues at the American Museum of Natural History (Central Park West and 79th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan) through October 2.
On Monday evening, guests at Rome's Baroque Palazzo Colonna — a formal papal residence — were treated to a glimpse of the opulent religious vestiges.
The newly engaged couple stepped out at Cardiff Castle, a 218,22018-year-old historic site that features Rapunzel-worthy towers and opulent interiors.
Dozens of top officials and businessmen were detained in the crackdown, many of them confined and interrogated at Riyadh's opulent Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
There was a day when the Rat Pack ruled Las Vegas, Liberace dominated the strip, and the booze flowed freely at opulent casinos.
They're not spartan though—some of the newer stations are positively opulent, with plenty of wholesome murals depicting happy families and efficient farms.
And for Qual, there has always been a vulgar and masochistic temperament within his music, one that is also dramatic and grotesquely opulent.
The couple began dating in 2006 and married in an opulent ceremony in Monte Carlo attended by European royalty and the international elite.
After a few hours, we were eventually called up to an opulent, empty, and silent floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial office building.
Left: Officials of Hiroshima, meeting in the once opulent conference room of City Hall, discuss how to repair the ruined city in 1945.
For the exhibition, it rotated inside the opulent ballroom of Bonnington House, the orange-plastered Jacobean manor on the estate of Jupiter Artland.
There's even a retractable safe — you know, to keep your other expensive watches and jewelry safe while you ride on this opulent vehicle.
Museum-quality informational panels, antiques, and art abound, with plenty of opulent common spaces featuring traditional paintings of Spanish nobility and religious themes.
The opulent estates of England and Ireland's royal and blue-blooded dynasties are perennial catnip to those craving inspiration on the grandest scale.
They spend their time sailing the Caribbean in their opulent yacht and flying their private jet from one luxury resort to the next.
Once complete, 21 Broome will feature a range of opulent amenities like a saltwater pool, a glass-enclosed landscaped terrace, and a gym.
Location: Jaipur, IndiaStarting rate per night: $410Rambagh Palace was built in Jaipur in 1835 as an opulent home for the queen's favorite handmaiden.
Denise Wingate: The movie didn't have a lot of money, so I'm surprised we managed to make it look so opulent on screen.
Akpokiere's work is a large white prism in the middle of The Armory Show's opulent champagne lounge, separating the booze from the art.
When I found myself in Turkey that fall, exploring its winding streets and opulent mosques, I was determined to seek out another bathhouse.
New York University and the Louvre have opulent outposts in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, where labor abuse has been endemic.
In a room at the opulent Hotel Tuğcan, he handed over an enormous transparent plastic trash bag full of paper buildings and trees.
Miller, the KnightRiders' assistant, said girls' teams had regularly attended U.N.D. women's games at opulent Ralph Engelstad Arena, known locally as the Ralph.
Besides making for an opulent entry, many of the architectural features of the former hotel come in handy in the building's new role.
In the early 1900s, young January Scaller is the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, living lonely and disheartened in his opulent mansion.
Ordinary people, eager to see the lifestyle Yanukovych's thievery had financed, found an opulent palace filled with chandeliers, exquisite inlaid wood and gilt.
For over 24.4 years, Formula One has been a premier global sport, with opulent, multi-day races held in countries across the world.
"The bedroom is like an opulent huge parlor, and Kristin wanted an actual office with a door you could close," Mr. Kessler said.
It also takes a plan — how do you compete with all that opulent fluff when you're in a more minimalist frame of mind?
One example is Wolfeboro, where opulent mansions like Mitt Romney's $10 million, seven-bedroom summer home with a private boathouse overlook Lake Winnipesaukee.
Investigators said that Mr. Thakkar had recruited former schoolmates for the fraud by driving them in limousines and hosting them at opulent restaurants.
The hotel has 129 rooms, along with its signature 250-square meter Presidential Suite which is opulent in every sense of the word.
The weekend surrounding the dinner was packed with events sponsored by corporations and media outlets that ranged from sober panels to opulent afterparties.
The company in 2016 bought a Gulfstream G650 — one of the most popular and opulent private jets — to replace an aging Gulfstream model.
This freakish and sexily opulent piece of skull fuckery vibrates with virtuosity, projecting a mesmeric unease that plunges far below its material circumference.
What struck me was how muffled the merriment sounded, through the curtains that separated their cramped quarters from my opulent perch in seat 1A.
Winning Solutions, known for its opulent board game upgrades, has created a new version of Monopoly that will appeal to children of the '28s.
Dozens of princes, senior officials and top businessmen are believed to be held in Riyadh's opulent Ritz Carlton hotel as their cases are processed.
Imperial operates its opulent gold and cream hued casino in the heart of Saipan's main Garapan district, targeting high roller gamblers, mostly from China.
Skymind employs 15 people, but they are not all centralized in a single opulent Palo Alto or SoMa headquarters like most startups these days.
"The kitchen is original and the opulent furnishings represent the style and affluence in which the Trumps would have lived," the Airbnb listing says.
Bloom's fascination with the transition between life and death is evident in his most notorious subject – depictions of cadavers and limbs in opulent colors.
This opulent theater in Flatbush, Brooklyn, will offer a suitable setting for a decadent lineup that brings together some of rap's strongest emerging voices.
However, in conjunction with Opulent Oceans, featured publications are displayed on a rotating basis outside the fourth floor entrance to the AMNH Research Library.
In 1959, construction began on a new wing of the Greenbrier Hotel, a beautiful, upscale resort with rolling green fields and opulent white buildings.
A project design document seen by Reuters showed opulent buildings with modern and traditional Moroccan-style architecture featuring Islamic designs and colourful ceramic tiles.
So if you thought you liked the Bugatti Chiron because of its otherworldly performance numbers, its opulent materials, or its striking looks, think again.
For "V," Rylander is working alongside Echo Society art director Anthony Ciannamea to delivery intricately choreographed visual experience that transcends the Ace's opulent architecture.
In September 2005, a Greek fashion magazine featured the opulent New York apartment of a Greek socialite, Doda Voridis, the sister of Basil Goulandris.
The event was moderated by Scott Hannity of Fox News in the Pabst theatre, an opulent concert venue built in the late 24th century.
Stone makes himself at home and gives a pretty good read on how one could live in the "Thrift Shop" producer's surprisingly opulent digs.
Try "Ugly Betty," where again not everyone is rich, but the rich characters are so opulent and extreme it should tickle your tuxedo-bone.
If you have ever fantasized about staying in one of the most opulent palaces in the world, your dream may soon become a reality.
Academy Award-nominated director Baz Lurhmann created an opulent ad for H&M's new collection with London-based fashion label Erdem, out Nov. 2.
They are opulent, gentle, and possess a chicness borne of lazy intelligence—like a sorcerer traipsing from one marble tower to another, just because.
An opulent 10-bedroom home with an indoor pool and peacock-filled gardens in a Novorizhskoye suburb is for sale for about $25 million.
Within a few blocks of No. 10 Downing Street, she could find opulent homes owned by members of President Vladimir V. Putin's inner circle.
Napa Valley, known for the opulent fruitiness of its wines, would fall to its knees and beg forgiveness if it produced bottles like these.
The property, with gleaming marble floors and gilded elevators, was opulent, and my room was spacious, but it was the darkest of the three.
In each her opulent robes rise around her like a small mountain range, through which her long hair often extends like a sinuous river.
He has burnished his everyman credentials by cutting government salaries, flying coach around the country and opening the opulent presidential palace to the public.
But, with Mr. Macfarlane's painterly designs and sharply raked floors, the sets were an improvement over the 1985 staging, less garishly opulent, more attractive.
I pressed my face against the window and saw its opulent interiors frozen in time, darkened and coated in a thick layer of dust.
"Tosca" battles have raged since Mr. Gelb replaced the Met's opulent 1985 Franco Zeffirelli production with a darker one by Luc Bondy in 2009.
Rooms combine the precision of Asian hospitality with modern amenities such as soaking tubs and spa showers for an experience that's luxe and opulent.
Meanwhile in the case of the opulent style of Catholic fashion on display at the Met Gala, it is very clear where Francis stands.
It's also listed for $27 million, and designers in 2017 decked it out in an opulent style similar to that of 2820 Scott Street.
To pay for her younger sister Thandi's education, Margot works at an opulent resort, where she moonlights as a prostitute and, eventually, a madam.
"We had these things called Chocolate Freedoms in the White House Navy Mess, which was like a really opulent chocolate dessert thing," Cunnane says.
The opulent St Georges&apos Room, meanwhile, will be transformed into a Lebanese lounge, with Eastern-accented cocktails, low-level sofas, and Arabic vibes.
Gascony — unlike Paris or the Loire Valley, say — is not a popular destination for bucket-listers seeking grand chateaus, opulent palaces and soaring basilicas.
And the left in particular is suspicious of Buttigieg's willingness to hold fundraisers — especially in such opulent settings as the Hall Rutherford wine caves.
Drop in price: 34%Median airfare: $447With windswept beaches, historic lighthouses, seaside cottages, and opulent captain's mansions, Nantucket is New England at its finest.
Her fall/winter collection combined opulent Old World forms and functional fabrics — like a sculptural coat (that contains a hidden hood) lined in Thinsulate.
The Moon is in luxurious Taurus today, and it's encouraging you to figure out how you can make your own life a little more opulent.
His journey from schizophrenic peasant to erotic attaché to the Russian aristocracy unfolds in the opulent, crumbling interior of the fully-operating Neo-Gothic church.
The government, unable to pay for the property's opulent upkeep, let the home fall into disrepair and eventually gave it back to the Post Foundation.
Friend described a powder room toilet so opulent it wasn't immediately clear how to flush it; the rooms were grand to accommodate Andreessen's gigantic presence.
North Korea last year celebrated the 70th anniversary of the founding of its communist party with an opulent military parade, billed as its biggest ever.
Morgenstern's style, especially in the frequent Grimm-esque interludes, employs aggressively simple children's literature syntax to describe outlandish settings that are either opulent or decaying.
It takes place in opulent restaurants, within the frosted walls of corporate conference rooms, and on the upper floors and penthouses of sky-scraping buildings.
The gloom is evident on the streets of Kemang, a ritzy neighborhood in south Jakarta where opulent homes are now festooned with "for-rent" signs.
The discovery is among the historic moments in the American Museum of Natural History's (AMNH) Opulent Oceans, showing the visual side of early ocean science.
" Some of it is an opulent distraction: "We're seeing some groups spending millions on these outlandish bunkers pulling away from the core of the movement.
Earlier this year the Chilean ambassador's opulent residence in the Country Club zone of Caracas took in five pro-opposition magistrates threatened with jail time.
It's set to be an opulent and traditional affair, with both Christian and Hindu wedding ceremonies taking place at Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, India.
It's cheap enough not to be an outrageous expense, and it's opulent enough to look like something that would be crafted for a royal family.
Get to know the opulent lifestyles and infamous dynasties of Mexico City's socialites and the expats vying for a spot in their exclusive social order.
The interior is still as opulent as any 1970s Chinese buffet, with red lanterns hanging from the ceiling and oriental wood screens dividing the room.
It was a classic princess A-line style featuring an opulent skirt and a sheer bodice covered in delicate appliqués along the neckline and sleeves.
McKeon, along with the family, took a private helicopter from Athens, which landed on the deck of the Christina, the opulent yacht owned by Onassis.
The moon is in opulent fire sign Leo today, Cancer, lighting up the financial sector of your chart—make time to reflect on your budget.
Getting Sony's solid-copper, gold-plated Walkman along with its partnering headphones is a rather opulent approach to obtaining a matched set of audio gear.
And then there is the Hotel Hermitage, the other major luxury hotel in Monte Carlo, which includes a Michelin-starred restaurant and an opulent ballroom.
If you're the type of traveler who appreciates ultimate luxury in the sky, Emirates and its opulent first-class cabins are probably on your radar.
As in "Untitled (To Sappho)," Twombly compresses the visual (the mirror), the tactile (the opulent layer of paint), and the olfactory senses (the smudged flowers).
The silence and opulent visual substance of each painting is reflected, as was often the case in early and post-war modernism, in Opper's titles.
The comments by the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, were made during a panel discussion at an opulent investor conference in Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
Adam Rigg has created a handsome, atmospheric prison of a set (beautifully lighted by Yi Zhao), and Montana Levi Blanco's mourning costumes are deliciously opulent.
In front of an audience, Adichie speaks with great precision, measuring every word, her Nigerian-British accent sounding to American ears both opulent and daunting.
The foundation of another structure, equal in size but far less opulent, was also excavated at the same level, some 40 feet below the surface.
When the web's drumbeat rendered its news-heavy titles all but irrelevant, the company left its namesake building for less opulent headquarters in Lower Manhattan.
Another day, I found the romantic Art Deco bar in the opulent Alfonso XIII hotel, and chatted with new acquaintances while sipping a perfect Negroni.
The comedian Nick Fraser, a Vine star turned Instagram personality, drapes himself in luxurious robes, do-rags and furs, posturing as a frivolous, opulent character.
Massive and opulent, with 11-foot ceilings, lacquered-wood sliding doors and gold-accented everything, from the bird-sculpture art pieces to the blackout curtains.
Amid this opulent setting, she finds herself in a seemingly universal situation: She's unable to impress her judgmental would-be mother-in-law (Michelle Yeoh).
At Elsewhere, expect to hear a smattering of singles released over the past couple years, including "Celine," an opulent banger that showcases Roberts's husky delivery.elsewherebrooklyn.
In voyeuristic views of opulent Parisian interiors, lone musicians practice their instruments; naked women loll on patterned textiles and unhappy marriages and love affairs unfold.
Photos of the event posted on an Instagram account that is now private showed an opulent, candlelit banquet table where guests feasted, drank — and donated.
In the evening, he hosted an opulent state dinner, his first since taking office, featuring rack of lamb and jambalaya with nectarine tart for dessert.
A third is a boom in new buildings and renovations of factories and opulent old Brooklyn hotels, many sold in recent years by Jehovah's Witnesses.
The Casa Italiana at Columbia University, designed in the 1920s by McKim, Mead & White, has a small, tastefully opulent concert hall inspired by Renaissance Rome.
I didn't hear any background music playing in the bar, but the dim lighting and opulent yet comfortable decor made for a cozy, intimate vibe.
But they found just what they were looking for in Purchase, a Westchester County hamlet sprinkled with opulent houses on stretches of lush green land.
To this end Uber, partnered with Volvo and Toyota to co-engineer what Meyhofer calls the most "opulent" self-driving ride experience on the market.
And someone is following him at the New Jersey college where he has been forced to trade in his formerly opulent life for tattered academia.
During Coachella in 2017, the rapper relaxed in some pretty sweet digs: An opulent six-bedroom villa in Rancho Mirage, California, provided courtesy of Airbnb.
The protests, activists say, are a sign that people are no longer willing to accept austerity while their leaders build lavish palaces and opulent hotels.
Having a thick, absorbent sheet of paper is the difference between feeling like you're in a sad bowling alley or an opulent five-star hotel.
At the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) in February 2018, Middleton looked opulent in a rich, green dress featuring cap sleeves and a sweetheart neckline.
It got me thinking about another opulent display of wealth owned by DeVos: her 22,000-square-foot nautical-themed summer mansion, located in Holland, Michigan.
On Tuesday, Paul Manafort will face trial for allegedly funneling tens of millions through offshore shell companies to fund a super-opulent lifestyle — without paying taxes.
Sure, tabloids and social media users hounding celebrities like Kim Kardashian for their vanity-driven surgeries might stigmatize such expenditures as opulent and taboo for some.
Michael Jackson was entombed in 2009 in the mausoleum at the opulent cemetery that is also the final resting place of Elizabeth Taylor and Walt Disney.
That device is a bit too opulent for the everyday consumer at $290, so it's no surprise Amazon isn't willingly cutting the price on that device.
From the rich sky at sunset to the shifting shades and shadows on the sand, the opulent colors have been encapsulated in this highly pigmented palette.
The Caribbean is a go-to destination for incredible hotels and resorts, which increasingly feature wellness components ranging from opulent spa packages to unplugged holistic retreats.
Every year these sisters seem to manage to outdo even themselves, consistently upping the ante on the caliber of parties, outfits, and incredibly priced, opulent gifts.
She wore it to the Theatre du Chatelet, where an opulent event exhibited a $50 million necklace called the Queen of Kalahari, on January 21, 2017.
Ralph & Russo, Giambattista Valli and Reem Acra (bridal 2017 collection) gowns are so opulent and dramatic, they definitely embody the fashion fairytale of the entire wedding.
Opulent violence—once a jarring, but necessary mainstay of the story they were attempting to adapt—became a blunt narrative instrument to advance that story forward.
But the ultimate putdown was a publicly aired German comedy sketch where Sarkozy was acting as a maître d'hôtel serving an opulent dinner to Mrs. Merkel.
The earth-toned collection varied in shades of brown, tan, gold, and orange, and featured intricate patterns using opulent materials such as suede, leather, and skins.
Xander's Green Goods, a dispensary in Washington State, had easily the most opulent booth in the room with its faux-foliage walls and handsome wood paneling.
In a Tuesday photo shared to her Instagram Story, Kardashian, 39, showed off her son's new duds: a black-and-white coat with opulent floral detailing.
The final straw seemed to be a story examining the construction of an oyster farm near an opulent Black Sea property known widely as "Putin's Palace".
Soon after, the Mafia-run 181 Club on Second Avenue — "the homosexual Copacabana" — became one of the most opulent gay and lesbian locales in the country.
Fans knew that the late, great Joan Rivers owned an opulent New York City apartment, but few people knew a ghost may have haunted the home.
In one scene in the series, a young model wearing an opulent Sabine dress is mobbed by a group of poor women selling fruits and vegetables.
Tis, a brand-new, 365-foot superyacht by Lürssen, has two helicopter pads, a 40-foot swimming pool, a hammam spa, and opulent French-inspired furnishings.
The photographs were to be of Dakota Johnson, and the setting was the Samuel Borchardt House, an opulent Gilded Age mansion on West Eighty-sixth Street.
Any doomsday shelter, no matter how opulent, usually includes a few key features, like blast-proof doors, an array of freeze-dried food, and medical supplies.
Though the house looks quite quaint from the outside and even opulent in the common spaces, guests have reported paranormal activity in one of its rooms.
Private jets have a reputation for being opulent or extravagant, but in many cases in the US, a private plane is actually a smart business resource.
A similar, but larger and more opulent still life by Claesz was sold by Mr. Haboldt at the 217 Tefaf Maastricht fair, priced at $21.25 million.
Inspired by Sophie's opulent new collection, Frederik, who has flown in to Paris for just 48 hours, has sourced ingredients for a decadent yet simple menu.
It's packed full of opulent touches — such as 5,000-year-old wood cladding on the dash — which may help explain the Bacalar's $2 million asking price.
Book in advance for a tour in English at the opulent Ceausescu Mansion, also known as the Spring Palace, which opened as a museum in 2016.
In her fantastical, unrestrained creations, Guo Pei imbues contemporary high fashion with ancient tradition, invoking history and mythology through intricate craftsmanship, opulent embroidery and sumptuous detail.
Her fame owes as much to her opulent, glossy voice as to her outsize persona, in which glamour and goofy antics combine to easily Instagramable effect.
The most opulent persons in the city offered themselves as candidates for the honor of being his priests, and purchased it successively at an immense price.
He has pushed a conservative vision of Islam that clashes with the opulent lifestyles of some of his family and has led to accusations of hypocrisy.
Billed as "Moulin Rouge" meets "The Phantom of the Opera," this much-anticipated debut introduces an opulent world of competitive magicians engaged in a deadly game.
Retirement, he said, glancing around his opulent home, its walls covered with art, and a sprawling deck outside the third-floor kitchen, is not an option.
No truly accomplished New Testament scholar, for instance, believes that later Christianity's opulent mythology of God's eternal torture chamber is clearly present in the scriptural texts.
Star says in the couple&aposs latest YouTube video that he wants to make the space more opulent, as it doesn&apost currently match his personality.
With its opulent original production design and intricately drawn studies in ambivalence, "Follies" is an unlikely candidate for re-creation in a quick-take anthology show.
In Saudi Arabia last May, Trump was treated to the kind of royal welcome -- elaborate ceremonial sword dances in opulent palaces -- that warms the Trumpian heart.
Villa Belgiojoso is an opulent neo-Classical palace favored by Napoleon and Italy's royal family, which the Milanese sometimes also call "Villa Reale," or royal villa.
West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)President Donald Trump, ensconced in his opulent private club of Mar-a-Lago this weekend, had a screed of combative thoughts.
Murphy charged that Trump was sitting "in his opulent golf resort attacking hurricane first responders" while thousands remain without electricity or drinking water on the island.
The Newseum has struggled financially ever since it moved from Rosslyn, Va., where it originally opened in 1997, to its opulent Pennsylvania Avenue location in 2008.
After Donald Trump unexpectedly won the 503 presidential election, he was tasked with setting up an inauguration that would be worthy of his name and opulent reputation.
The French "Garden Party" follows a cadre of amphibians as they pick over the detritus of a luxurious party at an opulent estate mysteriously devoid of residents.
It's raining here in Molsheim, and we've just crossed the opulent grounds of Bugatti's estate to the "atelier," where the world's most exclusive automobile is meticulously assembled.
The actress took a turn from her grungy, tomboy sartorial preferences for a more opulent Parisian choice in a dress from the Chanel Pre-Fall 2017 collection.
It is opulent and over the top in a way that Barthes could hardly have imagined, but still very much the "spectacle of excess" that he knew.
Now it's time to get ready for the era we conveniently skipped, because the opulent, teased, gelled-to-oblivion '80s are creeping back into the beauty zeitgeist.
Location: Paris, FranceIn a nutshell: An opulent 19th-century, 160-room hotel near the Louvre with a Michelin-starred restaurant and views of the Jardin des Tuileries.
One of our favorite things to do is looking at photos of insanely opulent weddings and feeling relieved that we're not the ones spending the serious cash.
Kadyrov, who was appointed by Putin to rule the Muslim-majority region in 2007, has spearheaded a revival of Islam in Chechnya, including by building opulent mosques.
The document also describes in detail Epstein's opulent mansion, which has been valued at $77 million, and is one of the largest homes in New York City.
Each of them royalty in their respective industries, the power couple of all power couples would have the sexiest, tannest, and most opulent wedding of the century.
Stealing the biggest, most opulent yacht I can get my hands on — which, by my admittedly poor understanding of maritime law, would make me a pirate captain.
The singer, who is known for her opulent costumes, set designs, and music videos, recently performed her new single, "Chained To The Rhythm" during the Brit Awards.
But, look beyond the opulent costumes and posh accents and you'll see another story — one about the triumph of female strength in a world powered by men.
Next up is Whitney, who lives with his martini-drinking mom named Patricia, an ex-New York socialite delightfully jaded by her opulent lifestyle, butler and all.
Beginning Monday is Alexei Ratmansky's handsome, opulent reconstruction of "The Sleeping Beauty," featuring more palatial sets and poetic pas de deux, this time to Tchaikovsky's stirring score.
It is expected to be an opulent affair, with a feast inside the members-only club in glitzy Palm Beach, surrounded by gold embellishments and crystal chandeliers.
Ji, who casino executives said brings VIP players to Saipan on his private jet and accommodates them on his yacht or in opulent villas, declined to comment.
But, then, one could just as easily say the same about this year's Valerian, Luc Besson's magnificent flop and another big, opulent mess of a sci-fi.
Photographing the opulent Kings Theatre in Brooklyn — which opened in 1929, shuttered in 1977, and recently reopened after a $95 million renovation — got him hooked on theaters.
When the opulent wedding of his longtime press aide appeared on the cover of a society magazine, Mr. López Obrador waved it off as a private event.
And though he's made healthy changes, like cutting out sodas, eating more vegetables and getting more rest, the opulent star doesn't see himself getting any less fabulous.
The royal family's opulent life, financed by Brunei's immense oil wealth, has often seemed to be at odds with the country's increasingly restrictive culture and legal system.
The deal, valued at $2.6 billion, further underscores the growing importance that opulent experiences are expected to play in what traditionally has been a product-driven market.
By dressing up the melodies you sang in the shower in opulent gaslight-era drag, Mr. Luhrmann created an equalizing paean to love ballads of all ages.
Some envied the opulent lifestyle of the Americans, with their enormous bases equipped with all the conveniences of home, including air conditioning, shopping centers and movie houses.
I stayed downtown, at the more opulent and also new Curtiss Hotel, which has a revolving bar, free valet parking and futuristic automated showers and toilet seats.
Older Americans, Brooklyn fashionistas and families willing to pay top dollar come to stay in one of the opulent, albeit shabby, old homes that line Havana's boulevards.
Châteauneuf's grenache, especially nowadays, tends to offer a lusher, more opulent and jammy strength, while the force of Bandol's mourvèdre tends to be more brooding and withholding.
Dozens of princes, senior officials and top businessmen were detained and confined in the opulent Ritz-Carlton Riyadh as the government launched the purge in early November.
The stark contrast between their neighborhoods - Karoui's opulent Carthage and Saied's earthier Mnihla - underscores the many other differences between the candidates in both their politics and temperament.
Above them in the opulent quarters of the castle, which housed a sanctuary for white missionaries and a church, Dutch officers enjoyed lavish meals and ocean views.
"It's a rather opulent version of your typical German sauna, and like most public baths in Berlin, this one is very clean and well-kept," says Huseby.
I've had similar, perfectly O.K. meals all over the country, and I wish the food were as special as these formerly opulent hotels and their striking settings.
The El San Juan Hotel, Curio Collection by Hilton, known for its opulent lobby crystal chandelier from the 1950s, reopened in December after extensive renovations and repairs.
This form of subjugation is mockingly decorated in opulent clothing and housed in the art deco architectural splendor of life freed from the burden of financial concern.
She clearly lived a life of relative luxury, evident in the many opulent fabrics covering her bed, which boasts a Rococo headboard — a fashionable, French-style structure.
Displayed on two free-standing walls that cut through the show's main gallery, big, handsome color images by Thomas Struth and Stephen Shore are both aloof and opulent.
The outfits coming down the pink carpet were opulent, grandiose, and avant-garde in every way — from Cardi B's crystal-studded fingernails to Lady Gaga's huge metallic eyelashes.
Washington (CNN)When President Donald Trump decamps from dreary Washington and jets off for an opulent weekend at Mar-a-Lago, he brings the city's advertisers with him.
Colossal gold unicorns, gold metallic corsetry, a gold winged throne — Nicki Minaj's performance at MTV's 2018 Video Music Awards was fit for the opulent, epic queen she is.
The ceiling apse is outfitted in gilded stucco, and the opulent materials used reflect the spare-no-costs attitude of the Vatican: colorful marbles, stained glass, gilded bronze.
Cho recently posted a photo to her Instagram of iconic model-actress (and Fifty Shades Freed star) Kim Basinger with some textured waves from the most opulent decade.
The interior of the EXP 12 is classic Bentley, in that it feels palatial and opulent — in all the right ways, and some of the wrong ones too.
No one story sounds like another, yet her singular voice floats through the collection, tying it together with opulent prose that draws heavily on history and the macabre.
It confirms the demise of an age of opulent elegance, of conspicuous, magnificent spaces, rich and enduring materials, the monumental civic gesture, and extravagant expenditure for aesthetic ends.
Bloom's drawings and paintings are challenging, fascinating, disturbing, opulent, and scabrous – paradoxes of sensuality and repulsion, matter and immateriality, particularly in his depictions of cadavers and body parts.
Founded in 2004, Mr Buckley's group has carved out a niche in helping established acts—like Bjork and Massive Attack—realise grand, opulent live versions of their music.
"This is not an opulent event given the situation in Brazil," said Balich, who has been involved in several past Games ceremonies, including the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
Also out is Netflix's very first reality TV show, Made in Mexico, premieres on September 28, giving us a glimpse into the opulent lives of Mexcio's super-rich.
Steeped in history and rich in culture, Dubai is the United Arab Emirates' largest populated city and boasts an opulent vibe that encapsulates this modern Middle Eastern hub.
Now you go past boarded-up single-family homes to arrive at once opulent, equally shuttered casino towers and a boardwalk as sparse and silent as the streets.
The Saudi royal family is well known for its opulent tastes and love of theatrics: They literally projected Trump's face on the hotel he stayed at in Riyadh.
What is for me, I suppose, is to remember that an opulent inner life is worth more than anything shiny outside myself—at least until my next obsession.
Where the Shadows are So Deep displays 35 new paintings, whose opulent color scheme and intricate designs glow gem-like against the dim, arched stretch of the gallery.
The opulent gown took 110 embroiderers from Calcutta, India, 3,720 hours to create the hand-cut organza flowers, French knots in silk floss and layers of thread work.
The two-story house he stopped in front of was not opulent, but it had a courtyard and several small charcoal grills already smoking for tea and supper.
If fluffy pillows, breakfast in bed and an opulent spa aren't enough to hook you into a luxury hotel, maybe a room service robot will do the trick.
Today's studios are far less opulent: Jeff Koons's studio features numerous Lysol cleaning spray bottles for polishing and fluorescent-hued cartoon paintings of a very different aesthetic era.
Buy it here >>In the opulent island city-state of Singapore, wealthy Nicholas Young brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season.
An opulent mansion in New York City with a panic room and a Versailles-inspired dining room has been on and off the market for nearly six years.
South Africans would have to aim for the most glaringly opulent way of life for themselves—or at least pretend they could have it, or fantasize about it.
If the "Downton Abbey" trailer is any indication, the upcoming movie promises to bring back the opulence (and the not-so opulent side) of the British 20th century.
But the Trump celebration is expected to be an opulent affair, held inside the member's only club in glitzy Palm Beach, surrounded by gold embellishments and crystal chandeliers.
NagaCorp is building additional facilities and a luxury retail complex, while Solaire, where VIPs play in opulent ocean-front rooms, is also unrolling new amenities to lure VIPs.
Six months in and the opulent villa is still waiting patiently for a buyer, after a $1 million price cut and years of being listed without a sale.
Back aboveground, you'll find a massive vestibule of stone staircases and observation balconies, a gold leaf-coated salon reminiscent of Versailles, and an equally opulent 1,900 seat theater.
That is, until she flies there for a wedding, gets thrown into an opulent family drama, and has to prove herself to Nick's impossible mother, Eleanor (Michelle Yeoh).
I figure that, while keeping vegan 100 percent of the time isn't feasible, I can definitely manage limiting my meats and more opulent meals to when with company.
In an opulent green room, Lillis looks like a matchy-matchy society matron, which Rivera says was inspired by the late photographer Larry Sultan's portraits of his mother.
"A country nearly as large as England, with all the material conditions of opulent civilization, has been made a charnel house," said John James Ingalls, a Kansas politician.
But for centuries, many speculative fiction writers have bucked this trend by envisioning plush spaceships decked out with opulent furnishings to support the extravagant lifestyles of elite passengers.
"A Christmas cake is all about the fruit!" she said, offering me the most opulent, lightly spicy, ever-so-faintly boozy sample on the end of a toothpick.
Once that income dried up, the government alleges, Mr. Manafort, with Mr. Gates's help, falsified financial records so he could obtain bank loans to maintain his opulent lifestyle.
The chef Mark Ladner, who has led the kitchen of the opulent Italian restaurant Del Posto since it opened in 2005, will leave at the end of January.
But with the communist revolution turning into opulent capitalism, China's rich are now making sure the dinner party settings are immaculate and the wine is poured just right.
"My collection is a celebration of color, texture and opulent materiality so these things were very important to touch upon in the store," Johnson told T by email.
In January he flew to Cannes, France, and filmed himself on the doorstep of an opulent villa owned by a former finance minister and longtime SMER-SD member.
Its opulent, ornate style is a departure from the more typical minimalist aesthetic found in Bay Area real estate listings, and it has breathtaking views of San Francisco.
The opulent estate and its many customized touches sit in close proximity to tech giants like Facebook and Apple, whose headquarters are 15 and 20 minutes away respectively.
All told, the Sahara welcomes the gamut of travelers, except perhaps, those seeking the higher level of luxury available at one of the Strip's more opulent casino resorts.
Although he makes liberal use of tonal harmony—including opulent, late-Romantic gestures, for which mainstream audiences profess to be starved—he subjects that material to shattering pressure.
Austere in its rhythms but opulent in its production and costume design, the film shows that South Korean films about parasitic behavior come in all varieties and genres.
His clothes, by contrast, are more readily associated with the Azuchi–Momoyama period of Japanese art, a brief, opulent era between the mid-16th and early 17th centuries.
He created visually opulent pieces in which performers obsessively repeat actions like running on the spot or waving giant flags, or enact scenes involving violence, sex and nudity.
Those troubles seemed far away as the pope's plane touched down amid the palm trees, opulent high-rises, men in white dishdashas and enormous mosques in Abu Dhabi.
The silhouettes evoked Hitchcock heroines — neat twin sets with feathered skirts, swinging coats in emerald mohair — but there were Victorian notes too, including opulent embroideries and velvet bows.
"We will investigate this — you can be sure," Lindsay McCain, a fiery Republican member of the upper house of America's legislature, told reporters outside the opulent capitol building.
Obama met for two hours with Salman and a group of top princes and officials at the opulent Erga palace, a meeting that had been forecast to be awkward.
"The flowers are a rich and opulent magenta-purple, so they will really make an impact when planted in borders or larger pots," according to the Royal Horticultural Society.
For OHNY Weekend, the doors of the United Palace were opened not for a performance, but for a series of guided tours of the opulent and well-maintained theater.
Given that there are much more expensive menu items, more opulent beach cabanas, flowing booze, a clothing boutique, and a spa, spending a lot more would be quite easy.
Why I Did It: Throughout awards season I've been following every celebrity red carpet look and consequently have been dreaming of getting to wear the opulent, intricate designs myself.
It began at Montreal's opulent St. James Hotel before migrating to his handsome Edwardian house, which, he notes, channels the red chinoiserie of Diana Vreeland's lush New York apartment.
Similarly, the kimono's long expanses of fabric are exploited with opulent embroidery and dyeing techniques that, in the hands of Iris van Herpen, stretch the limits of textile's materiality.
Other locations had been under discussion, including Mongolia and the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ), but experts said Singapore's neutral but opulent setting was likely to work in its favor.
The sumptuous studio Nadar opened in Paris was like nothing the city had ever seen: two stories of opulent salons fronted by a huge sign with the proprietor's name.
Given over to a masterly singer endowed with an opulent baritone that includes a silky, cellolike high register and penetrating depths, such an exploration of darkness can be cathartic.
LONDON — Thursday night, on the eve of London Fashion Week, the British fashion world came to an opulent suite of rooms with gilded mirrors and chandeliers, Champagne and canapés.
Set two blocks from Bryant Park and Times Square, The Chatwal is close to major New York attractions, but the refined, opulent interiors feel wholly removed from the crowds.
However, the town has ten gigabit internet connectivity to the home from a federal grant, and magnificent, underused and under-valued buildings — a legacy from the town's opulent past.
We had come to Shangyanggong, an opulent new facsimile of Empress Wu's palace, built on the site of the original and housing a state-controlled entertainment center for tourists.
The proxy business in the Philippines is mainly facilitated by Macau junket operators who bring high rollers into the casinos' opulent VIP parlors, either in person or via proxies.
" But where in the past his work — industrial design and otherwise — was about adding layers to provide interest, now "it's how can we make something feel opulent with reduction?
The singer is wearing mismatched lingerie while sitting in front of an opulent floral arrangement, and lightly caressing her exposed stomach which contains two mini-Beys (or Jay Zs)!
Highly admired by the art and fashion crowd, the Mudd Club—an inclusive antidote to Studio 54's opulent elitism—it was a vital component in NYC's dance scene.
Her reconstruction was not quite as opulent, but it was a sumptuous personal pleasure ground, intended to signify the strength of the family and its immense retinue of courtiers.
Clive Palmer, a mining magnate and conservative politician, says his long-stated wish to build a replica of the famously opulent ship is back on after years of delays.
After he begins seeing Leo Charles, a working-class man of West Indian descent, Nick receives a visit from his new lover at the Feddens' opulent Notting Hill townhouse.
WASHINGTON — It had fitting features for a drama in the nation's capital: a celebrity chef, an opulent restaurant in Georgetown, a social club's after-party and the president's daughter.
Yes, we now live in a world where corporations that make an extremely opulent living out of dredging up fossil fuels are competing with each other for green credentials.
It is not abnormal for Trump to be silent over the weekend, especially when he is shuttling between his opulent Palm Beach club and his private golf club nearby.
I got to look around one of the five-star hotel&aposs opulent Grand Signature Suites, which cost around €3,500 ($3,850) a night, on a recent trip to Vienna.
It doesn't seem like the place to stop in for a quick bite, but rather to enjoy a leisurely meal in a setting that feels like an opulent museum.
And we can still trace his operatic highs and lows — professional or otherwise — across dimly lit bar tops, white linen restaurant tables and opulent hotel rooms throughout the city.
The home at 714 Steiner Street has all of the elements of that quintessential San Francisco charm: the pointed roofs, the crown molding, the ornate detailing, the opulent colors.
The same could be said for Health and Human Services Secretary Ben Carson, whose agency has come under fire recently for opulent spending on furniture for his government office.
In an interview with CBS News, the Crown Prince said that his finances were a private matter and that he did not need to apologize for an opulent lifestyle.
Maybe she has always done this, but since she unveiled her first work for City Ballet in May, Ms. Tanowitz has bowed barefoot, even on the most opulent stages.
It followed not one but two traditional, opulent productions of the opera, both by the director who more than any other has defined opulence at the Met: Franco Zeffirelli.
"America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions," he told newly arrived Irishmen in 1783.
The eye is drawn to the full rhythmic structure of the kaleidoscopic space where smaller, interlocking elements lure it into deep, opulent repetitions of machinic (and implicitly sexual) acts.
The opulent 363s are boiled down to an aerobics video color palette plastered over America's favorite passtimes—fast cars, outrageous hair styles, zombies, and defying the laws of physics.
The visual, directed by Ashley Armitage, is set in an opulent, retro home where Liu prepares to go out, dancing and singing into a mic in sequined and feathery outfits.
The opulent healthcare clinic will open in Moscow at a time when Russian healthcare is in crisis and the disparity in the quality of medical care for Russian oligarchs vs.
If you've already bowed to your dog's every whim, buying them a highly opulent Moncler parka, a water bottle you can share, and a sexy, calming leotard, why stop there?
Last month, a judge refused Epstein's request to release him on bail and allow him to live under 24-hour guard in his opulent townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
And while the garments we saw on the spring 2016 runways were as opulent and luxurious as ever, the season also ushered in a lighter, less serious way of dressing.
It dwells a little too much on some tangential pop culture, like props from the 1960s Batman TV series or the opulent Broadway disaster Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark.
The floor of Palace's London store is an opulent, white-marble number with a black italicized "P" in the center, but the shop is staffed exclusively by friends and family.
The Leftovers actor popped the question with a 20-carat, $2 million dollar diamond, setting the tone for what's bound to be an over-the-top and opulent wedding extravaganza.
Crazy Rich Asians is a lavish look at the opulent lives of Singapore's elite (and what happens when your boyfriend rudely doesn't tell you that he's a part of it).
Specifically on the premium front, Huawei's opulent $53,600 Porsche Design Mate RS (a souped-up variant of the P20 Pro) has a special red color intended solely for mainland China.
The Procter & Gamble-owned laundry detergent brand is trading dull domesticity for the flashiness of opulent nightclubs in a send-up of luxury advertising tropes starring Modern Family's Ty Burrell.
Chris was out at Mastro's in Beverly Hills when we noticed his opulent turtleneck sweater ... a sweater that he'd for some reason taken off upon his exit from the establishment.
Beyond the opulent costumes, stellar cast, and eye-catching cinematography, the best part of the film is the Oscar-nominated script — specifically the cruel, imaginative, and hilarious insults and comebacks.
The first was held in the ballroom of Trump's opulent Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, and featured former rival Chris Christie in an almost vice-presidential role.
It also takes place in an open online world, where you look to join the ranks of the titular absolvers, sworn protectors of what remains of a formerly opulent empire.
Authorities rounded up dozens of princes, top officials and businessmen in November on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's orders, with many confined and interrogated at Riyadh's opulent Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
In her opening paragraph, she makes her intention clear: to avert our attention from the opulent hotels to the impoverished neighborhoods of those who depend on tourism for their survival.
Red Lips - Opulent White Floral Uncensored and head-turning crimson-colored Blood Orange Zest and Vivid Red Lotus Blossoms beam with kissable facets of Deep Red Gardenia and Rxotic Ylang.
Those who are demanding a return to traditional stagings should ask themselves what kind of social message is being sent when such a scenario becomes a vehicle for opulent nostalgia.
He conducted this effervescent music with a steady hand, sure pacing and an eye for instances of opulent instrumental color, which are tucked in among the otherwise briskly efficient score.
They will be joined by colleagues at Hampton Court Palace, Henry VIII's opulent residence further up the River Thames, after a ballot for strike action was 91 percent in favor.
Hospitals could also improve patient experience in ways that have nothing to do with quality of care: Nicer TVs in the rooms or more opulent lobbies don't reduce mortality rates.
In terms of Baselworld night life, all roads lead to the Les Trois Rois, the opulent hotel on the banks of the Rhine that functions as the fair's social hub.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - "Quantico" star Priyanka Chopra and U.S. singer Nick Jonas are to marry this weekend in a two-day ceremony at a venue dubbed India's most opulent royal palace.
High-end real estate agent Tony Giordano, of the Opulent Agency, said he has multiple flipper clients right now, but the ones who get the highest returns are the builders.
During a visit from President Obama to the opulent The royal family is rumored to own several other lavish residences around the world, including in Switzerland, London, France, and Morocco.
The opulent luxury hotel, located less than a mile from the White House, has become a $315-per-night symbol of the unprecedented conflicts of interest Trump's administration could bring.
But Ms. Krantz was almost certainly the first writer to combine the steam and the shopping in such opulent profusion — and to do so all the way to the bank.
Visconti's opulent films do not exactly cry out for translation to the stage; Ingmar Bergman, whose existential cinema relies heavily on lengthy monologues, seems a far likelier candidate for adaptation.
Mr. Wiley adapts a historical style of portraiture that was rarely used to celebrate black people, and presents them, in all of their everyday glory, in grand and opulent colors.
Crowds have flocked in recent weeks to an exhibition on the opulent, and at times profligate, 19th-century reign of tribal princes when Tunisia was part of the Ottoman Empire.
First, photos from a bookseller dinner at Book Expo 2019 showed that the event was decorated with opulent floral arrangements wrapped in barbed wire, meant to mimic the book's cover.
Based on the frequency of Trump's visits to the opulent club since he took office, Mar-a-Lago appears to be a place—unlike Washington—where he feels at home.
Switching to English, Loach said he found it very strange to receive an award in such opulent surroundings given the miserable living conditions of the people who inspired his film.
For this reason, I love to give pieces from Lotus Arts de Vivre, the iconic brand known for its bold Asian and animal-themed creations made using opulent raw materials.
The modern-day riviera was built in the 1950s for the Hollywood elite as a "playground to the stars"; they erected opulent modernist homes and signed deals at lavish parties.
But when she breaks into a formerly upscale house, its owners long dead, she halts, suddenly struck by the sight of an opulent living room full of silent musical instruments.
His release came hours after he told Reuters in an interview at Riyadh's opulent Ritz-Carlton hotel that he expected to be cleared of any wrongdoing and be freed within days.
She and I reminisced about the show's finest episode — the seventh of the first season, which was an effervescent standalone short film set during a fundraiser at an opulent country estate.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian chose Versailles as the site of their 2000 rehearsal dinner and arrived in an opulent horse-drawn carriage, with at least some staff in period dress.
The con artists of The Hustle would love the opulent St. Regis suite I'm sitting in as I wait for the two stars of the film, Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson.
San Pedro Garza García, where Luis and Dorita launched their business, encompasses the southwest side of the city of Monterrey and is one of the most opulent municipalities in Latin America.
The khachkar would have shimmered as light and shadow played on its lace-like surface, making the deep-carved stone appear as opulent as the woodwork and stucco of great palaces.
So if you like shows with vampires in opulent settings (Venice too!) — and I don't think this audience subset is small by any means — you may love A Discovery of Witches.
In the 2019 Bollywood version of the story, the special effects are in keeping with the times, and the re-creation of opulent palaces and massive war scenes are adequately breathtaking.
Fans of ultra opulent concept cars will recognize an affinity between Renault's Ultimo and Rolls-Royce's Vision 100 car, Aston Martin's Lagonda, and, to a lesser extent, Volvo's recent 360c concept.
The animation was created as part of an upcoming game that allows players to experience life on the opulent ship, as well as the tragedy as it unfolds in real-time.
With a family so large and so financially successful, most episodes are centered around the sisters and their relationships or they're being used to highlight their entrepreneurial activities and opulent spending.
Beech martens don't nest or steal the homes of other (more innocent) woodland creatures, instead choosing to move into preexisting establishments like attics, garages, and rock gardens — showcasing their opulent standards.
A 28-year-old woman was found guilty Thursday of stealing more than $200,000 and attempting to swindle millions from her friends and banks so she could maintain her opulent lifestyle.
American press noted that the first lady and Ivanka Trump were the only women present at the opulent welcoming ceremony, which featured the Saudi king and Cabinet secretaries dancing with swords.
This is often true with Knight — his works are technically proficient and beautifully opulent, but when you go digging around for a hint of soul, you're in for a long search.
Earlier this month, the 23-time Grand Slam champion gathered with her friends and family for an all-out girls weekend in New York City at the opulent Baccarat Hotel & Residences.
It's surreal to see the humble bleachers and Coca-Cola-branded game timers in this opulent interior, and it's a juxtaposition that will soon be a memory in the theater's history.
In his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Rousseau depicted how enraging it is to subordinate oneself to the desires of others, in a state of exclusion from Voltaire's opulent civilization.
Prosecutors accused Manafort of hiding from U.S. tax authorities $16 million he earned as a political consultant for pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine, money he used to fund an opulent lifestyle.
Known as the Palatul Primaverii, or Spring Palace, the villa is spacious — 30 rooms, 53,000 square feet, with gardens designated for winter and summer — but not quite opulent by palace standards.
Rather than showing off their opulent homes, the upper crust of Russian society clearly values privacy and security above all else — values that are exemplified in the secluded forests of Rublyovka.
George W. Bush couldn't have found a more receptive audience for his recent appeal for more open borders than the opulent St. Regis Resort on Saadiyat Island just outside Abu Dhabi.
Despite their reputation for being opulent extravagances, most private jets are used by businesses to help executives and managers reach far-flung sites in a more efficient way than flying commercially.
Part of his genius was his inscrutable slipperiness—the rock star as shadow emperor projecting orgiastic fantasies, writing odes to Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan, and indulging in opulent drug binges.
This sexy, visually opulent film is flooded with brooding music by Mr. Almodóvar's longtime composer, Alberto Iglesias, which contributes to the mood of a high-end soap opera with Hitchcockian overtones.
From the deck of an opulent yacht, he contemplates his stratospheric rise after the fall of the U.S.S.R. and, thanks to a series of legal and financial disasters, his impending ruin.
For all three diners, it was strange to see food that originated from humble peasants now nestled in opulent ceramic vessels that wouldn't look out of place in the Forbidden Palace.
Book Azur starting at $738 per nightFor something a bit more opulent but incredibly intimate, Queenstown's stunning luxury lodge Azur consists of only nine private villas with open-plan living spaces.
Advantage: Elizabeth In this opulent, Emmy-winning HBO mini-series, Helen Mirren's glimmering, faceted performance emphasizes both Elizabeth's majesty and her vulnerability, suggesting her political dominance comes at a personal cost.
Her heroines — invariably rich, thin, savvy, ambitious and preternaturally beautiful — are undisputed princesses, their castles the opulent hotels, condominiums, casinos and boutiques of New York, Paris, Beverly Hills and Monte Carlo.
The co-directors shoot John Wick's most extensive whuppings like grand production numbers in one of Hollywood's opulent old musicals, keeping the focus on the finely detailed blocking above all else.
At Baha Mar, an opulent hotel and entertainment complex, the casino floor was littered with vacationers shooting craps, sipping martinis at a piano bar and ordering $100-plus platters of sushi.
We had booked a room at the Grand Hotel Continental, an opulent 1800s-era hotel, and the lovely receptionist was more than pleased to help us right our rental-car wrongs.
Cubicle workers in search of caffeine can avail themselves of no fewer than eight Starbucks coffee shops; for tourists, there are the Rue 57 brasserie and the opulent Russian Tea Room.
Biting into Thomas Boughton's text with relish, Ms. Hallenberg revealed all those conflicting facets through her regal presence and opulent, seamless voice, which rose from earthy lows to brightly ringing highs.
After the financial crisis, President Barack Obama criticized Wall Street's big bonuses, and several banks canceled their opulent annual conferences amid public anger over the federal government's bailouts of financial firms.
Early in his tenure Mr. Gelb replaced an opulent, beloved old production by Franco Zeffirelli with a starker, more sexually charged one by Luc Bondy, alienating large swaths of the audience.
Weber dared to mix opulent arias and ensembles with catchy songs and dances, hints of folk tunes and spoken drama, all to conjure a world of both everyday life and fantasy.
Prosecutors have been eager to show jurors that President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort lived an opulent lifestyle as part of his ongoing criminal trial on financial fraud charges.
If you haven't changed out of your business attire and fancy an after-meeting cocktail in an opulent setting, stop into The Monarch Cocktail Bar & Lounge, in the West Plaza district.
"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 2): 86%What critics said: "As ever, it's exquisitely written, cast and shot, making great use of Mexico's stunning landscapes, opulent haciendas and colourful '80s fashions.
It is aimed in part at operagoers who rebelled when the Met replaced its beloved, opulent 1985 Franco Zeffirelli staging of with a sparer, grittier one by Luc Bondy in 2009.
Sondra Radvanovsky sings the title role for just three performances in this brief reprise of the one of the Met's most famous and opulent productions, and they should not be missed.
Rick Ross, opulent in his beat choices and turns of phrase, refers to his weed as "purple flowers," but he's already feeling the burning heat in his chest when he smokes.
Yet the secrecy of the crackdown — during which detainees were held inside the same opulent hotel where days earlier investors had rubbed elbows at an international business conference — could undermine transparency promises.
The prevailing style of these wines, grown mostly in the province of Mendoza to the northwest, is the antithesis to good pinot noir; powerfully fruity, opulent and often highly alcoholic and oaky.
By pulling the camera as far back as possible, the viewer is treated to intricate images of protagonists' homes, full of opulent chandeliers dangling from high ceilings and encased in gilded moulding.
Hosted at the opulent Baccarat Hotel & Residences, the first hotel from France's eponymous crystal brand, the luxurious weekend included five-star spa treatments, trapeze'ing, tea brunches, and dancing out on the town.
The suit claims Schwartz stole the money to support an opulent lifestyle, including a $50,000 vacation to Bora Bora and paying off a $75,000 gambling debt at a casino in the Bahamas.
The regal outfits look like they were plucked from the pages of fairy tales, their opulent fabrics fit for a wardrobe that Sleeping Beauty's Prince Phillip and Cinderella's Prince Charming would envy.
Skip most of the pages in their ridiculously opulent menu (five pages of tiny type), and head directly to the titular dish, served stuffed, thin crust, deep dish, or as a calzone.
After dazzling the world yet again with her latest postpartum appearance, let's hope she was treated to the most opulent luxury any royal or non-royal mother could hope for: a nap.
Enormous sprays of blossoming plum branches loomed everywhere; in a tribute to the location, oversized faux-medieval books lay open on tables; and a series of vitrines displayed opulent, one-off trinkets.
Inside, the opulent building was packed with rich red carpets, gold trompe l'oeil, mirrored walls and long lines of gargantuan chandeliers, in keeping with the maximalist, more-is-more aesthetic of Balmain.
"Get Ya Shine On" sees him complementing the three MCs' resilient verses with a glistening, opulent beat, resulting in a West Coast-style posse cut that never flags in energy or vigour.
Art (objects from the museum's collection), light and sound evoke the Qing dynasty as museumgoers walk through various spaces, each one representing an aspect of the opulent life inside the imperial palace.
Then, when Manafort lost his "golden goose" in Ukraine (to use the prosecution's term) after Yanukovych's government collapsed in 2014, Manafort allegedly turned to bank fraud to continue funding his opulent lifestyle.
"Crazy Rich Asians" is based on a novel by Kevin Kwan that satirizes Singapore's megarich, and the film's trailer oozes with luxury cars, opulent parties and other trappings of the One Percent.
From $139 Northern Ireland's — and perhaps the world's — sole Steve McQueen-themed hotel was opened by the Beannchor Group (which also owns Belfast's opulent Merchant Hotel) in October 2016 with 43 rooms.
But the events also have a real sticking power, be it in the memories of those who watched a day unfold or as an opulent footnote to an otherwise dreary history lesson.
Available through June 1, couples get an opulent suite in the hotel, with a bottle of Champagne and rose petals waiting for them, and a private helicopter tour of New York City.
The Chinese media have reported on many of its scandals, including one nine years ago when a person who reportedly held a senior position there shared pictures of her opulent lifestyle online.
The bony white colonettes and the multicolored ceiling keystones may seem garish, but they were aspects of the medieval cathedral (along with opulent wall hangings and portal statues painted in vivid colors).
Standing side-by-side in the opulent surroundings of the Gallery of Great Battles, the two leaders initially appeared to be on the same page, pledging to work together to fight terrorism.
From Russian oligarchs and Middle Eastern oil barons to newly-minted Chinese entrepreneurs, the wealthy have flocked to London over the past two decades, snapping up everything from opulent homes to soccer clubs.
Trump said he won't attend the White House Correspondent's Association Dinner, an annual parade of celebrities, journalists, and politicians that in recent years has drawn fire for being too opulent and self-indulgent.
While it's hard to imagine ever wanting to leave the opulent oasis, the River Lofts building also boasts a fitness center, a bicycle room, garden, on-site garage and a 24-hour doorman.
The 77-year-old rock icon commanded the stage at Manhattan's opulent Beacon Theater Wednesday night, spoiling a sold-out crowd of New Yorkers with over two hours of peace, love and music.
From Kris Jenner's opulent Great Gatsby themed gala for her 60th birthday to Kendall and Kylie's Ryan Seacrest-hosted graduation fête, there's no occasion these women don't know how to celebrate in style.
And thanks to researchers at MIT, who've found a way to use cheap, nylon plastic as an artificial muscle, we're now one step closer to creating artificial humans—and opulent fantasy theme parks.
With the opulent Strip within eyesight and even the unsavory parts of downtown Las Vegas starting to see gentrification, Commercial Center remains a slice of the legendary anything-goes Sin City of yore.
Meanwhile TEFAF Maastricht, the market leader, had come to be accused of complacency, seemingly stuck in an opulent rut, its fame as a source for important Old Master oils having outlived their availability.
But it's opulent style and seamless blend of periods and cultures makes for a truly one-of-a-kind residence, complete with a Versaille-style garden with two ponds and seven white swans.
As if it's not enough that Princes William and Harry live their opulent lives largely at the British taxpayers' expense, now they might get to live out the regular British citizen's dream, too.
It opened with the rest of second Alexandra Palace in 13 (the first version of the palace burned down in 1873) and hosted opulent spectacles, performances, and eventually films in its grand hall.
On the kind of opulent piano loop that can only mean "this song goes off," Dey struts and weaves like a boxer as he vents and boasts with no hook to counter him.
WASHINGTON — Inside an opulent palace in Riyadh late one evening in February 2004, two American investigators interrogated a man they believed might hold answers to one of the lingering mysteries of the Sept.
I got into the glitzy kickoff party for this year's September sale, which took place at an opulent venue in Lexington and included electric violin and cello performers and a rare bourbon tasting.
" She said Manafort laundered money not to support a family but to sustain an opulent lifestyle, "to have more houses than a family can enjoy and more suits than one man can wear.
Mark Rylance stars as Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith's son who rose to become the closest adviser to King Henry VIII (Damian Lewis), in this opulent BBC tale about machinations in the Tudor court.
Ethics questions arose after The Washington Post reported on his opulent Capitol Hill office in February 2015, which prompted a government investigation into whether he had improperly accepted pro bono interior design services.
The equal-tempered tuning of the modern piano is markedly different from tuning systems of the early eighteenth century, and the instrument's opulent sonorities cast a Romantic blur over Bach's harmony and counterpoint.
The orchid, once an aristocratic rarity, now a ubiquity — you can buy them at Home Depot — is still the most unnatural-looking flower of the natural world, dizzying in its opulent, adamant oddity.
Its opulent Napoleon III-style décor, which dates to the 276th century and was restored in 213, features gold-leafed moldings, heavy crimson velvet curtains and an azure ceiling fresco rimmed with flowers.
In December 2018 the group acquired the hospitality group Belmond, which operates high-end hotels including the Hotel Cipriani in Venice as well as opulent train services and river cruises across 24 countries.
Based on the gothic thriller by Gillian Flynn, it trades the opulent mansions, private schools and bourgeois coffee shops of Monterey for the run-down houses and dive bars of small-town Missouri.
Barzun's regular soirees at Winfield House — the sprawling, opulent mansion in Regent's Park that serves as the American ambassador's residence — had won no little fame; he knew how to put on a show.
There, in a series of homes — of which his final and most notable was the opulent Villa Oasis — Saint Laurent sketched some of his best designs (and hosted some of his wildest parties).
Mr. Verbinski doesn't so much observe shiny surfaces and opulent furnishings as caress them, sending a frisson of visual delight through his camera as it glides down corridors and soars over wooded glades.
He was an executive at a global bank and I was a foreign correspondent, and, over six years in Singapore and Bangkok, we lived in fashionable and opulent homes with live-in help.
In 2014, when Mr. Modi hosted Mr. Xi for his first visit in eight years, the two men were at an opulent riverfront banquet when news broke of a skirmish between their armies.
The opulent style wasn&apost to my taste (it was verging on tacky in my eyes) and the layout seemed slightly odd, but I&aposd still love to stay there given the chance.
While visiting Dubai last month, I was granted access to the suite — not to stay in, but to look around — and it was even more lavish, opulent, and extra than I&aposd imagined.
MILAN (Reuters) - Plus-sized models led by Ashley Graham joined 1990s-era supermodels and celebrities on Dolce & Gabbana's catwalk on Sunday as the Italian fashion house presented its opulent "DNA" spring-summer collection.
Then the sandwich is laden with the Italian Caciotta al Tartufo cheese, which is a blend of cow's milk, sheep's milk and truffles, an opulent upgrade from the usual American slices or provolone.
Capes and robes, jerkins and tabards, skirts and kilts, chemises and corsets, dresses and gowns, in fabulously opulent textiles like chenille, velvet, satin and silk, are all crammed in the period clothing rack.
The morning was bright, with a breeze that moved the light's sharp points on the lanes, and the hedges were opulent with berries and the high grasses raced in the late-summer fields.
Stepping into this imposing red brick mansion is like entering a time capsule, where paintings hang amongst opulent rococo gilt furnishings, silk wallpapers, and tinkling chandeliers arranged as they were in the 1890s.
" In 1783, George Washington told newly arrived immigrants from Ireland that "America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions.
Her music was immediately lush and strikingly imagistic, conjuring a feeling of opulent to-be-looked-at-ness, and saw her putting herself – "Young and Beautiful" – in the eyelines of powerful, older men.
They would hold nothing back, they implied: They would share every DUI, every argument around the family dinner table, every opulent quickie wedding with their audience, because their audience was also their family.
A sprawling resort that resembles a 12th-century Middle Eastern fortress, crisscrossed by picturesque canals and bordered by two kilometers of private Persian Gulf beachfront, it feels almost too opulent to be real.
The fluid spontaneity of Pavlova's movement allows her to stand out against the opulent set design of courtyards and palaces that made Dumb Girl one of Universal's most expensive productions at the time.
As it turns out, Jimmy's clients are the IRS, offering the perfect excuse to create a search warrant for the club and dig up some incriminating narcotics stashed away in the opulent club.
MIAMI (Reuters) - As the princes, sheikhs and diplomats who would rule world soccer filed into a Miami airport hotel it struck an incongruous tone, a world away from the opulent jamborees of popular myth.
For all her grace and magnetism, May-ling was a woman fatally addicted to luxury, and Ei-ling spent much of her life playing politics to maintain an opulent lifestyle for the Soong clan.
In the vastly opulent dining room of Getty's mansion, also known as Sutton Place, replete with gilded ceilings and an enormous table, Getty's butler informs him the Times is now a tuppence more expensive.
A credit provider enthused about increasing financial inclusion in the developing world; a luxury-car executive promised to replace the leather in her vehicles' opulent interiors with pineapple matting and mushroom-based faux leather.
After pro-Kremlin Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's ouster, prosecutors said, Manafort lied to banks to secure loans and maintain an opulent lifestyle with luxurious homes, designer suits and even a $15,000 ostrich-skin jacket.
The ladies went to the opulent Baccarat Hotel & Residences, the first hotel from France's eponymous crystal brand, the luxurious weekend included five-star spa treatments, trapeze'ing, tea brunches, and dancing out on the town.
In case you were wondering how Chanel continues to produce such opulent presentations, the proof is in the numbers: In June, it was announced that the label earned a whopping $9.62 billion in 2017.
The ladies went to the opulent Baccarat Hotel & Residences, the first hotel from France's eponymous crystal brand, the luxurious weekend included five-star spa treatments, trapeze'ing, tea brunches, and dancing out on the town.
In a victory speech delivered in the opulent setting of his seaside pile in Florida (advertised on its website as "the greatest mansion ever built"), Mr Trump tried slightly to allay his party's concerns.
In the most recent season of Versailles, the opulent Canal+ drama about Louis XIV's early reign, a beautiful, pouty man with glossy tresses sits in his chambers suffering his umpteenth bout of self-pity.
At least some of the detainees were held at the opulent Ritz-Carlton hotel in the diplomatic quarter of Riyadh, said sources in contact with the government and guests whose plans had been disrupted.
Gene Simmons is kind of like a low-stakes version of Donald Trump: cornily opulent, a bullshit artist par excellence, and shamelessly willing to slap his brand on anything in exchange for a buck.
The prosecution brought in an array of witnesses, from Manafort's accountant to his former close aide, Rick Gates, who presented a consistent and damning record of hidden accounts, shrinking income and an opulent lifestyle.
President Gamal Abdel Nasser seized the center from the Gezira Club in the 1960s to give Egypt's young people something comparable to the country's opulent private country clubs, but it had long been neglected.
On Monday, Hillary Clinton stopped in at Mikey Likes It Ice Cream in the East Village, where the owner, Mikey Cole, had named an opulent ice cream sundae after the former New York senator.
According to one aide, Bloomberg's team paid around $44,000 a month for just one office in Charlotte, North Carolina, an opulent expense that most campaigns wouldn't even consider spending on a state-based office.
The sultan, as the main enforcer of religion in the Southeast Asian country, has in recent decades advocated a hard-line vision of Islam that is at odds with the royal family's opulent lifestyle.
Ms. Wilde's designs echo the 1970s, when jewelry was "very opulent, very shiny, large statement pieces," she said, using her gold moth earrings with diamond eyes that cover the ear lobe as an example.
As the shuttle drove past increasingly opulent homes, I caught glimpses of the rural landscape O'Neill knew — here, the remains of a walnut orchard, there, an ancient oak stretching gnarled branches over someone's deck.
Various lawmakers condemned Trump for targeting the mayor while spending the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. "Today our President will sit in his opulent golf resort attacking hurricane first responders," Sen.
And large, opulent houses, set back behind deep lawns at the end of runway-long driveways, as in the ritzy Murray Hill section, are facsimiles of the manor houses that speckle the English countryside.
The song was a harsh critique of an opulent world — a world that this very song, which became a No. 1 hit for nine straight weeks the following year, would help the teen inherit.
Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican and chairman of the House oversight committee, slammed the administration's construction process as mismanaged, resulting in a building with an "opulent-looking" glass facade that favored aesthetics over security.
Such was the case at the Giambattista Valli couture show, where the brand partnered with the Italian jewelry house Buccellati to show jewelry so glamorous and opulent that they only enriched Valli's fanciful designs.
Manafort was indicted on 12 counts in October, including laundering foreign money from foreign sources — notably from his work for political parties supportive of then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich — to fund an opulent lifestyle.
Without such second-guessing, the Vienna State Opera's unapologetically old-fashioned Otto Schenk production, with opulent sets by Günther Schneider-Siemssen, still holds the stage on New Year's Eve, as it has for years.
Possibly made for Alfonso Il d'Este, Duke of Ferrara in Milan (ca 1575-90) it has opulent gold and silver sculpting and overlay in a Mannerist style, and was never actually intended for fighting.
Over a century of operations, the restaurant's dining room retained its original elements, including opulent woodwork, art deco stained glass windows, and, most contentiously, the Savoy Murals, painted by artist Edward Holslag in 213.
Director Baz Luhrmann, who famously creates visually opulent films like Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby, has fittingly been tapped to create a scripted mini-movie that will bring the collection to life on screen.
Ashraf Pahlavi, the twin sister of the last shah of Iran, known equally for her work with the United Nations on behalf of women's causes and her opulent lifestyle, died on Thursday at her home.
Kardashian West has slowly started adding opulent accessories — including diamond grills — back into her wardrobe more than two years after getting robbed of $10 million worth of jewelry at gunpoint and toning down her look.
Kory wore a tan tailored suit, while Kim wore a strapless white gown with opulent, multi-layer skirt that comes pretty close to topping the over-the-top gown she wore to her 2011 wedding.
The jury found that he hid from U.S. tax authorities $16 million he earned as a political consultant in Ukraine to fund an opulent lifestyle and lied to banks to secure $20 million in loans.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian authorities have released all remaining detainees from Riyadh's opulent Ritz-Carlton Hotel, which had been used as an interrogation center in a crackdown on corruption, a Saudi official said on Tuesday.
Held in the opulent Palais Garnier, the opera house in the heart of Paris, Balmain's spring 2018 show was a celebration of dreams becoming reality, as creative director Olivier Rousteing reminisced on his childhood ambitions.
Another research center, run by the University of Georgia, sits on 1,500 acres on the south end of the island, near the opulent mansion Reynolds built on the foundation of the original plantation owner's estate.
From starting drama with Wiz Khalifa (which was resolved) to sharing thoughts about his opulent life (remember the marble conference tables tweet?) to just ranting about whatever comes to mind, he is nothing but entertaining.
That may be because it's connected to an opulent residential program called reSTART ($37,000 for nine weeks) that heavily filigrees the 12 steps with behavioral therapy, classes in horticulture, and no end of physical exertion.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro's opulent Municipal Theatre has gone quiet this year as months of unpaid wages emptied its calendar of major works and pushed many ballerinas and opera singers into poverty.
These rich old writers hold their captive at a grand Malibu beach house that looks like it could occupy a site adjacent to where Tony Stark will one day build a far more opulent dwelling.
The lobby design features an opulent mix of materials, including a reception desk clad in strips of artist-made mirrored glass, glossy mahogany panels, and a floating gilded ceiling in the corridor to the elevators.
Beyond supermodels of both then and now, Versace proved that, after seasons of opulent, oversized silhouettes, it's time to get back to what she does best; that short and shiny doesn't have to mean cheap.
Stearns, according to his Discovery Channel profile, had a troubled childhood before going on to found Stearns Lending, the mortgage lending company that has afforded him an opulent lifestyle complete with beachfront mansions and superyachts.
Currently on view are 3,000 Years of Ancient Andean Textiles, as well as an exhibition of King Francis I of France's 16th-century collection of opulent Italian Renaissance-inspired art, which decorated his Fontainebleau château.
Ms. Raman's photographs show spaces that are paradoxically majestic and intimate: Once luxurious interiors replete with towering screens, grand staircases and opulent lobbies were designed to make going to the movies both personal and fleeting.
In the Virginia case, prosecutors accused Manafort of hiding from U.S. tax authorities $16 million he earned as a political consultant for pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine, money he used to fund an opulent lifestyle.
The French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, who died in 2008, and Pierre Bergé, his business partner and longtime companion, who died last year, created opulent, eclectically furnished homes in Paris, Provence, Normandy and Morocco.
Seemingly hopelessly out of step with the informal eating habits of today, these opulent relics of a bygone lifestyle achieved a succession of prices that were multiples of their estimates, lifted by global internet bidding.
Back here, the men would come into the dressing rooms of the divas, and proposition the dancers in the "foyer de la danse," an opulent mirrored chamber that Garnier designed as, basically, a hunting ground.
In the recent era, when wine critics worshiped at the altar of power and density, many montepulciano producers tried to prove their thoroughbred bona fides with opulent richness and an overreliance on new oak barrels.
In earlier hearings the French argued Equatorial Guinea was attempting to shield Obiang, known for posting pictures of his glamorous lifestyle on Instagram, by retroactively adding his opulent 101-room home to its diplomatic mission.
That's why the worst violence since November has targeted the Champs-Elysees boulevard and its boutiques, symbols of an opulent, successful, bourgeois Paris that those who struggle to make ends meet in the provinces resent.
Its opulent vegetation, blinding white beaches and tangled multicultural heritage inspired, in its most famous literary son, an ambitious body of work that seemingly embraced every poetic form, from the short lyric to the epic.
Saudi security forces have rounded up members of the political and business elite, including princes and tycoons, holding them in Riyadh's opulent Ritz Carlton hotel in what was billed as a war on rampant corruption.
He also used to organize lunches at the Café Edison — the "Polish Tea Room," a waggish reference to the more opulent Russian Tea Room — and sought never to take his midday meal in the office.
WASHINGTON — When titans of the pharmaceutical industry met here last week at the opulent Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Trump administration officials issued a blunt warning to the chief executives on the soaring prices of their medicine.
On canvases like "Industrial Night" and "Orpheus" and some marvelous untitled ones, Lewis's lines flicker — bolts of tensile energy amid clouds of atmospheric color — expressing a vision at once opulent and disciplined, modest and encompassing.
Imagine landing your chopper on the helipad of a seven-star offshore hotel, before being escorted to the opulent penthouse suite that's been rewarded to you for completing a main mission for some corrupt tycoon.
For them, Britain's ruinous housing market is making it impossible to offload their gaudy, opulent mansions – mainly because nobody is willing to risk their capital on a property that's both hugely expensive and utterly tasteless.
Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue is charged with spending millions in state funds — much of it allegedly in cash — to feed an opulent lifestyle of fast cars, designer clothes, works of art and high-end real estate.
But she soon decided this high fashion world wasn't for her, flying back from Paris to take up residence in her brother's rundown caravan (she's pictured outside it in the self-described "trashy-opulent" shot above).
LONDON (Reuters) - A four-course meal, more than 13,000 pieces of silver-gilt cutlery and a toast to the queen: Donald Trump enjoyed an opulent state banquet hosted by Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on Monday.
As the president-elect rang in 2017 entertaining guests at his opulent Mar-a-Lago estate, China quietly ushered in a series of measures aimed at better controlling the value of its local currency, the yuan.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" received the same deluxe treatment for its 50th anniversary, followed the next year by a similarly opulent 50th anniversary edition of "The Beatles," better known to fans as "The White Album.
Book Nick's Cove Cottages starting at $315 per nightNick's Cove is a collection of rustically opulent cottages on the tranquil shores of Tomales Bay, just 60 miles north of San Francisco and pets are warmly welcomed.
Based on the Kevin Kwan bestseller of the same title, Crazy Rich Asians follows Rachel as she accompanies Nick to a wedding in Singapore, and finds herself thrust into an opulent world she never knew existed.
She runs one of the city's four emergency shelters for homeless women - hers alone, though, is situated in a landmark building, famed for its opulent Renaissance style and its historic associations in a prime downtown location.
It initiates a link to the mystery of the moon, the comets and planets that explode on evening dresses of opulent velvet or on degrade tulle that blends into the blue-grey of embroidered lily flowers.
His release came hours after he told Reuters in an exclusive interview at the opulent Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh that he expected to be cleared of any wrongdoing and be released from custody within days.
Former President Viktor Yanukovych, ousted during the 2014 revolution, built an opulent mansion for himself with state funds in 2011 while the Ukrainian economy was saddled with debt and struggled to climb out of a recession.
In a cast dominated by men, the soprano Devon Guthrie, as Mary, stood out for her opulent but weightless tone and the grace with which she negotiated the fanciful embellishments Mr. Spears writes into her part.
The male clubs' mansions dominate the central corridor of undergraduate life, creating loud disturbances nightly while barring the vast majority of students from entry to parties, access to career networks or use of their opulent facilities.
LONDON (Reuters) - A four-course meal, more than 2,000 pieces of silver-gilt cutlery and a toast to the queen: Donald Trump enjoyed an opulent state banquet hosted by Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on Monday.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry lost no time in publicizing the session, posting a photograph on Twitter of Mr. Mnuchin sitting across from Prince Mohammed in an opulent reception room, listening while his host made a point.
Clayton, a co-founder of the We Need Diverse Books organization, has created an opulent mash-up setting, which seems to be a cherry-picked combination of 18th-century France, Japan and the antebellum American South.
The red silk wall tapestries for the state apartments' opulent audience chamber were re-created in Lyon, France, where they were originally purchased, while green silk velvet for the state bedroom was produced in Genoa, Italy.
But Ms. Millo could also have been describing her voice: an instrument of easy, opulent power and fiery yet sumptuous phrasing, a moving recollection of the great Italian singers who ruled 60 or 19993 years ago.
Today, it serves as a museum, and its opulent staterooms have been restored to their original glory with Hawaiian koa wood furniture and oil portraits of King Kalakaua and Queen Lili'uokalani (the kingdom's last reigning monarch).
He's a concierge at the Four Seasons, one of downtown Seattle's more opulent hotels, and also one of the contractors who might wind up filling out your itinerary should you choose to patronize When in Roam.
According to the Post's report, Navarro approached Bezos at an opulent Alfalfa Club dinner in Washington, DC last month in hopes of securing a meeting with the chief executive to discuss counterfeit products on his platform.
Through four previewed chapters of the eight-episode series, Alex slides farther and farther down the rabbit hole, while providing a travelogue of Europe as he visits various opulent locales -- basically, Lifestyles of the Rich & Corrupt.
That relationship grew months later when Trump made his first foreign trip to Saudi Arabia, where the President was greeted with opulent pomp-and-circumstance for a series of meetings with Muslim leaders, including King Salman.
Earlier in the day, West Instagrammed a nude selfie she'd taken in an opulent bathroom, complete with a caption implying that the moment was totally relatable because we all have days when we're rich and naked.
Not one to shy away from the pangs of tragicomedy, Steyerl has included sculpture renderings of the blocky blue birds, which are strewn across the opulent wooden floors of an Armory gallery like abandoned dinosaur marionettes.
Yet with the strolling pedestrians, opulent homes of Millionaire Row, and glimpses of the corset shops, clubs, and advertisements is a real sense of what walking on Fifth Avenue might have felt like at that time.
Melding opulent symphonic orchestrations, the drive of contemporary pop and the occasional swing of big-band jazz, he created a portfolio of scores meant to suggest a thrilling arena of brave, athletic men in cutthroat physical competition.
Kira White, 23, was arrested on Friday after a bartender and witnesses recognized her as the woman who left the Blue Martini bar with a man dressed in opulent jewelry on Jun 16, Local 10 News reported.
Other changes included replacing Obama's crimson drapes for Trump's gold, perhaps to resemble his opulent gilded Manhattan penthouse, where wife Melania and their 1o-year-old son Barron will continue to reside until the school year ends.
Half-asleep and in search of the kind of comfort only weak instant coffee brewed in catering-friendly sized batches can offer, I make my way through the opulent rabbit hutch that is Las Vegas' SLS hotel.
The opulent La Réserve Paris Hotel and Spa took the top spot for the second year in a row, but none of the rest of 2019's top 5 hotels made it into 2020's top 15.
Mr. de Souza, 60, felt so strongly about the issue that he recently had the painting, "The Death of Estácio de Sá," completed by Antonio Parreiras in 1911, removed from his office in the opulent Guanabara Palace.
Kardashian West has slowly started adding opulent accessories — including diamond grills — back into her wardrobe more than two years after getting robbed of $10 million worth of jewelry at gunpoint in Paris and toning down her look.
Founders visit its offices in San Carlos in San Francisco's Bay Area or its opulent town house in London's Mayfair, in both places greeted at the door by Pepper, a cheery robot made by SoftBank's robotics arm.
But the main event on Monday is the state banquet hosted by the queen in the opulent ballroom at Buckingham Palace, where Trump and first lady Melania will attend with a slew of royals and other VIPs.
The event is being held at the opulent Ritz-Carlton, where scores of princes, businessmen and officials were detained in a crackdown on corruption soon after last year's conference ended, unnerving investors and raising concern about transparency.
The gathering, in an ornate private dining room on Trump's opulent Florida estate, was taking place ahead of a series of high-stakes meetings where the two leaders are expected to tackle a range of complex issues.
The most popular uploads on Sam Chui's YouTube channel capture when he forks over the $20,1003 to $34,000 necessary to book extremely exclusive ultra-first class flights on some of the most opulent airlines in the world.
The opulent concert hall was packed except for the balcony, which was full of journalists from all of over the world who were there to take in the second biggest mobile phone manufacturer event of the year.
The cautionary tale of Sun is a historical side note as Apple, Salesforce and Amazon move into opulent new architectural projects at a time when their businesses are booming and market valuations are soaring to record heights.
VANDERWERFF: That's really true to the original novel, because the novel in a lot of ways is about, here's this opulent, decadent society, and here is what it's ignoring — here's the soul it's trying to set aside.
A 28-year-old woman was sentenced Thursday to four to 603 years in prison for stealing more than $200,000 and attempting to swindle millions from her friends and banks so she could maintain her opulent lifestyle.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - "Quantico" actor and Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra married U.S singer Nick Jonas on Saturday in a Christian ceremony attended by close family and friends at one of India's most opulent royal palaces, People magazine reported.
While I was impressed with the yacht at the time, I soon realized it was just a warm-up compared to the some of the absolutely massive and wildly opulent superyachts I would visit throughout the show.
Since the 2014 crash of oil prices, the country's once-opulent social welfare system has given way to Soviet-style product shortages and a mass exodus of citizens seeking better living conditions in other Latin American countries.
If you're feeling outdoorsy, see if there are campgrounds or other less opulent accommodations near the wedding venue -- as long as you have somewhere to get ready before the festivities, why not wind down in a tent?
When the collection was first shown in Paris this June at the opulent Westin, the hotel's head chef served up the sliced salami on silver trays to fashionable guests sporting bright red lipstick, attitude, and champagne flutes.
The earliest painting in the show is "The Prince," 1970, a half-length portrait of a personage with the stillness — and the opulent outfit — of a sitter in a portrait by the 21962th-century Mannerist Agnolo Bronzino.
Moroni honed closer to the facts of silver flecked brocade, velvet fringe, opulent jewels and fine embroidery in black or red silk thread that embellishes so many collars and cuffs in portraits of both men and women.
Prince Mohammed sought to counter some capital flight by arresting members of the royal Saudi family in November and holding them at the opulent Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh — the same setting for the gathering next week.
Regardless of the gravity of some of its situations, the movie maintains a consistent cheery glossiness and is lit in the manner of a particularly lifestyle-opulent hip-hop music video (like the Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize").
Speaking in an opulent two-storey atrium with marble pillars in the home of billionaire oil heirs Gordon and Ann Getty, where donors paid $33,400 per couple to benefit the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Obama mocked Trump.
Mr. Obiang led an opulent and charmed life for years, spending a good amount of his time in a 100-room mansion on Avenue Foch in Paris, ordering bottles of Romanée-Conti Burgundies and driving his supercars.
Editorial Since the election, it has been clear that Donald Trump cannot both be president and maintain a lease on the government-owned Old Post Office building in Washington, where he opened an opulent hotel last year.
LONDON — Nirav Modi, whose opulent necklaces have been worn by A-list celebrities, was in custody in London after being denied bail following his arrest this week in a bank fraud in India totaling nearly $3 billion.
And for many people, it's the only place where ludicrously opulent décor is attainable, where you can go all out on mother-of-pearl doorknobs or Versailles-worthy brocade chaises without losing your savings or your dignity.
" Mr. Schock resigned his House seat in March 2015 after he came under fire for lavish spending, including an opulent redesign of his Capitol Hill office that was reportedly inspired by a drawing room on "Downton Abbey.
Whether it be through dazzling photos of opulent audiophile setups, rare 2000s paired peppered with grabbing captions, or in the case of the Vinyl Yorkies Instagram account, beloved records surrounded by a pack of small Yorkshire terriers.
For the launch of our first store, I wanted to offer something that was opulent, lavish in design and that represents my own interpretation of luxury but still has the brands core designs —Italian craftsmanship and bold design.
The three actresses pose for the cover, shot by photographer Martin Schoeller, wearing opulent sequin gowns and upon closer inspection it looks like the stars' bodies are contorted in strange positions (with a few random limbs mixed in).
President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would not attend the White House Correspondent's Association Dinner, an annual parade of celebrities, journalists and politicians that in recent years has drawn fire for being too opulent and self-indulgent.
Fyre Media gained infamy last month when the eponymous music festival it promised would be an opulent uber-Coachella on a remote island turned out to be more of a Lord of the Flies reenactment with Instagram kids.
D'Amico worked at Versace's offices and "spent 24 hours a day with him" as the couple divided their time among the designer's opulent homes in Milan and Lake Como, in Italy, and in New York and Miami Beach.
The exhibition builds on the 2014 publication Opulent Oceans: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library, part of the Natural Histories series highlighting material from the more than 600,000 rare volumes at AMNH.
Though, if she opts for a different pattern, she can't go wrong with something opulent and romantic, like this Elie Saab body-hugging gown from the 2017 bridal collection, that resembles Shaffer's gown at the 2016 Met Gala.
Early Hollywood films such as The Sheik and Arabian Nights portrayed the Middle East as a monolithic fantasy land – a magical desert filled with genies, flying carpets, and rich men living in opulent palaces with their harem girls.
The network announced exclusively to PEOPLE on Wednesday that its winter lineup will include Racing Wives, an hour-long docu-series about the opulent lifestyles of the wives of top race car drivers, including Kurt and Kyle Busch.
In fact, he says he is often asked why the Queen doesn't "get big from eating all that opulent food": five-course banquets of dishes with heavy sauces and elaborate mousses, followed by the inevitable glace ice cream.
From Russian oligarchs and Middle Eastern oil barons to newly-minted Chinese entrepreneurs, foreign buyers have driven a spending spree on London property over the past two decades, snapping up everything from opulent homes to iconic commercial property.
Noble houses, according to the Tibetan Heritage Fund, were arranged hierarchically, with storage rooms on the ground floors, servant quarters and family chapel in the middle floor, and opulent living quarters with large bay windows for the landowner.
Although Iran's middle class blames Mr Ahmadinejad for squandering the money that rolled in during the oil-boom years, poor Iranians remember a time of generous welfare handouts and the reconstruction of Shia shrines, like Qom's opulent Jamkaran.
The garment would not be opulent, but more like the crisp white ones he wears daily — and made from the same high-quality Japanese polyester that Mr. Allak uses for all his not-a-wrinkle-in-sight dishdashas.
Working in the overlap of fine art and design, they produce materially opulent tables, chairs, clocks, rugs, wallpaper, stained-glass windows, lamps, decorative objects and sculptures in their Belgian atelier with the assistance of expert artisans and technicians.
The same could be said of the director Park Chan-wook, whose attention to voluptuous detail — to opulent brocades and silky robes, luscious peaches and creamy shoulders — turns each scene into an invitation to ooh, aah and mmm.
A restored print of "Ludwig" — almost four hours of opulent set design, languorous camera movements and ambient eroticism, featuring actors from various countries dubbed into Italian — will conclude Film Society's program with a weeklong run starting June 22.
By the end of the show — after watching a climactic succession of nervous breakdowns in song, styled, by the directors Harold Prince and Michael Bennett, as opulent fantasy musical-comedy vignettes — I wasn't sure what had hit me.
A former headquarters of the East German state broadcaster (funkhaus means "broadcasting house" in German), it is a vast, imposing building, with a brutalist exterior that gives no hint of the opulent recording studios and performance rooms within.
Ostensibly the biography of one mansion — the opulent Château de l'Horizon, near Cannes — in Lovell's hands it becomes a history not just of this playground of the rich but of the changing currency of money, beauty and fame.
The Saudis planned such an opulent greeting for Mr. Trump to emphasize the depth of their commitment to the United States and to persuade him to deepen the partnership to fight terrorism, confront Iran and enhance economic ties.
He celebrated his 85th birthday with an opulent party that cost a reported $250,000 and continued to hold such birthday events annually, last year spending a reported $800,000 and celebrating in a region suffering drought and food shortages.
Reopened in 2016 after nearly four years of renovation, the opulent hotel, in the city center at the Place Vendôme, now has four separate bars; we chose the eponymous Ritz Bar because it existed during Jacqueline's student days.
Perhaps by coincidence, the two rooms of Simple Gifts are installed in the American Wing alongside The Aesthetic Movement in America, which highlights a very different 19th century that worshipped beauty in opulent stained glass and ornate wood carving.
The hills on the edge of the city are lined with opulent mansions, while a few abandoned houses riddled with dozens of bullet holes stand as a reminder of what happens when all is not well within the cartel.
Those potentially watching competitive fighting games live for the first time were treated to several upsets and close games as the best eight SFV players — out of more than 5,000 entrants — battled one-on-one on that opulent stage.
Going by the unbelievably opulent moniker of Armie Hammer (his namesake, grandfather Armand, was an industrialist who became part owner of Arm & Hammer purely for rich-person kicks), this all-American square-jaw is having a long overdue moment.
Standing before 10 American flags in the opulent Grand Ballroom of Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, Florida, Donald Trump thanked his children and wife for their help in his sweep of the Florida primary Tues.
Such is the enduring popularity of Mayfair's 5 Hertford Street, that its opulent 18th century townhouse frequently found itself fit to burst with members and their guests who couldn't keep away from the canopied courtyard or riotous nightclub Loulous.
Rihanna, who is one of the annual event's mainstays and is known for wearing the most opulent, over-the-top creations, skipped out on the festivities — but she still made sure her fans knew what she was up to.
Old hippies will also find missing The Allman Brothers Band's double album Eat a Peach with its opulent gatefold mural of a whimsical landscape of psychedelic mushrooms and bejewelled fairies drawn by W. David Powell and J. F. Holmes.

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