Word: sumptuously
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...claims to read very little contemporary fiction, although he enjoys studying the works of other authors to discern their techniques: "I read a lot of books." For pleasure, the Connecticut-based author re-reads Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh: "But most specifically and definitely not Brideshead. It's a sumptuous bore. "However, he has nothing but praise for fellow fiction author John Updike and his latest, Rabbit is Rich...
Long before Anna ever met the King of Siam, the monarchs of Thailand traveled their kingdom in resplendent style. As early as the 17th century, European voyagers recorded that a Thai royal tour through the waters of the old imperial capital, Ayutthaya, involved as many as 450 sumptuous teak barges, elaborately carved and gilded, with prows in the shapes of ornate serpents, birds and deities. Wrote one French envoy who witnessed the spectacle: "The splendor of the decorations, the variety of costume, the crowds of richly dressed spectators, the noise of the oars, and the shouts of the rowers, added...
...SUCCEEDING, Richardson shows where the other sometimes fall short. For dashing back and forth across the sumptuous for-trimmed stage, hitting innumerable peaks of triumph and frustrated despair, the Dunster cast occasionally nets carried away by the extravagant dialogue and forgets to add the infinitesimal pause, or flicker, or tone change that would transform sheer cleverness into reality...
Hope Somoza, the widow of the Nicaraguan President, lives in Key Biscayne. Nicole Duvalier, who opposes her brother Baby Doc, owns a sumptuous home in southwest Miami. The son of the late Fulgencio Batista, former President of Cuba, works as a model in Fort Lauderdale. A retired leader of the Tonton Macoute, the Haitian secret police, lives in Miami. Says one leading political exile, alive...
...timeless ritual of power and brotherhood. Dressed in the long, flowing arbayas of Bedouin chieftains, Saudi King Khalid, Crown Prince Fahd and Prince Abdullah sat in a sumptuous lounge at Riyadh International Airport last week and awaited their royal guests. One by one, special jetliners landed, carrying the rulers of the five Persian Gulf nations that, along with Saudi Arabia, constitute the Gulf Cooperation Council (G.C.C.).* Fahd and Abdullah emerged onto the shimmering tarmac to greet each arriving sheik and sultan, then escorted him in to meet the King. While white-robed Saudi national guardsmen, armed with machine guns...