Word: sumptuous
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Soviet officials would prefer inquisitive foreigners to believe that the elaborate privacy is for the benefit of disabled war veterans and aged proletarians in nearby rest homes and hospitals. In fact, as every Muscovite knows, the fence hides a cluster of sumptuous villas belonging to the Kremlin elite. They are the most luxurious examples of the dacha (country house), a cherished retreat for every Russian lucky enough to have one, and a coveted status symbol for those who do not. There are approximately 40,000 dachas within a 30-mile radius of Moscow alone, including elegant mansions of the country...
...desserts--Blueberry Gateaux ($.50), Apple Tart ($.35) and Chocolate Pie ($.30) were sumptuous. The cheesecake ($.50) was luxurious, very rich and not oversweet...
...Civil War approaches, welcomed with fat confidence. Young Charles becomes a colonel. Inflation comes, hard times and hunger. The Yankees come, with pillage and emancipation. Defeat comes. At last the family scatters - to the grave, to New Or leans with a few pickings from their once sumptuous possessions, young Charles to New York and a distinguished career at the bar. Throughout - and here is the final secret of the book's fascination - they show them selves at once courageous and uncomprehending, walking upright and blind into doom...
...welcoming banquet in the Grand Kremlin Palace some 100 guests proceeded from one sumptuous setting to the next until they arrived at their destination: the Hall of Facets, where Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great had once celebrated their military victories. In Podgorny's speech there was neither bullying nor appeasement. While not forgetting the differences between the two great powers, he pointed to the number of times they had successfully cooperated in the past. Said Nixon in reply: "The courage of the Russian people, who generation after generation have defended this city from invaders, makes this vivid...
...brothers, who made him what must be the most famous set of miniatures in history-the Très Riches Heures du Due de Berry. A tiny portrait of the duke in the Limbourgs' lesser-known Belles Heures epitomizes their manner: the stiff figure, kneeling devoutly before a sumptuous Gothic ground of red and gold brocade, the flat silhouettes, the sharp, unatmospheric color and light. The painting is conceived as a precious object, wrought with infinite care. So, too, with the work of the Rohan Master, or an anonymous miniaturist's image of Christ enthroned, surrounded...