There is little fear of opulence, as long as it is elegant and not cheesy.
You can see the industry's opulence at the trade fair it mounts each spring in Basel.
Spencer Dodington saw romance and opulence in Shanghai's unique architecture when he first moved here in 1995.
They are sequestered away from those flying coach, with their own big screens, music, and accoutrements of opulence.
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Parker Jr. called "explosively rich with a dreamy opulence" and awarded 98 points.
The philosophy seems to be to offer the latest medical technology combined with the opulence of an international hotel.
Models and rock stars are drawn to the unrestrained opulence of The Portobello Hotel (22 Stanley Gardens, Notting Hill).
The music is both refined and brutal, late-Romantic opulence pinned to raw action.
At the Hotel Albergo, guests are treated to the opulence and luxury of the Orient, but with a French accent.
As the 2008 recession ushered in an era of austerity, Versace's unrestrained opulence made the fashion house a likely victim.
"If you create this comedy character of wealth and opulence swanning around, people hate you, " he told The Independent in 2010.
They all drip with legendary five-star opulence and luxury, and have kept up with the times with frequent revamps, facelifts and modernisations.
Even by the rarified standards of this multi-million dollar world, the Al Salamah still stands out for its extraordinary opulence and high-spec engineering.
Brunt details a personal world of opulence and excess which the traders and sellers entered when they signed up for duty at Bear Stearns.
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Corporate chieftains shroud themselves with a compliant board of directors and pay consultants to perpetuate the mythology of the CEO being worthy of unconscionable opulence.
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Beyond the United Artists Theater deteriorated opulence and the Michigan Theater's peeling gilded walls, Detroit is still home to the second-largest theatre district in the country.
Venice's fall, though, was the time of its greatest opulence.
You came here to drink in the grandeur of the Winter Palace, to float down the majestic canals, to be transported to its gilded czarist opulence.
The shelter provided a unique glimpse into the hotel's incarnation as a government-run wartime guesthouse -- a world away from the opulence of its French colonial heyday.
The Federal Communications Commission, created seven decades ago to oversee America's scarcity of airwaves, now sits astride a teeming trillion-dollar industry in an era of bandwidth opulence.
This resplendent vase proves how a consummate designer like Edward Lycett could harness the most rambunctious eclecticism to produce a magisterial sense of unity, opulence and finesse.
In keeping with the opulence of those times, many thousands of sheets of gold leaf again adorn the steel pillars, lit by vast chandeliers created by glass blowers from Delhi.
This nonjudgmental embrace of the highborn life has exposed the show to the criticism, leveled widely, that it celebrates Edwardian opulence without due regard for the period's inequities.
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Witness the telling signs of opulence that appear in New York every time the banks are hot: nicer parties, smarter attire, exorbitant rents for summer houses in the Hamptons.
The majority of Nigerians frown at such flagrant displays of opulence, particularly on the path of their clergymen, given that 60% of Nigerians still live below the poverty line.
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Sirte, Libya (CNN) -- On the outskirts of Sirte, a mansion with a columned facade lies in ruins, though its opulence is still evident under shattered glass and chunks of concrete.
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Increasing pomp and opulence distinguish Phyfe's work from 1815 to 1825, which features richly figured mahogany, kingwood, rosewood, white and colored marble, brass inlay, lavish gilding and finely cast mounts of ormolu (gilt metal).
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After Hurricane Katrina forced it to close in 2005, the hotel reopened in 2009, completely renovated with a long walnut bar, elegant tile floor and white coat-wearing wait staff, nodding to the former opulence of old New Orleans.
What Edelstein means (and I agree) is that Luhrmann's "Gatsby, " in ramping up the opulence of the era and the intensity of the romance, comes closer than any previous movie adaptation so far in touching the emotional spirit of Fitzgerald's novel.
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