The dining room was sumptuously decorated, and the food, for her party of eight, was delicious and plentiful.

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Nicolaj Arcel's period piece, which is superbly entertaining and sumptuously produced, combines seminal Danish history with juicy scandal.

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This documentary, directed by Louis Pepe and Keith Fulton, offers a new twist on the age-old pleasure of watching somebody truly and sumptuously screw up.

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The setting is Tokyo, brooding sumptuously, and the filmmaker is Abbas Kiarostami, an Iranian by birth and nationality but a distinguished citizen of world cinema.

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Ms Weir opens vividly with descriptions of the splendours of royal palaces and ceremonies, sumptuously illustrated from the Household Ordinances and accounts, records of tournaments and the dispatches of ambassadors.

ECONOMIST: Tudor history

Next, you will see the Royal Enclosure, a loop of road with several sets of ruins, and beyond that, the Queen's bath, a faded building with sumptuously curved arches inside, surrounding a now empty bathing pool.

BBC: Escape from Goa: Hampi and the ruins of Vijayanagara

Set yourself up in style as the sumptuously renovated 17th century convent Santa Clara, owned by Sofitel, overlooking the sea and located right in the heart of the historic district, a line of horse drawn carriages waits outside to whisk you away into the night.

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