(1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(2) Using skills acquired in his first job with the accountancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers and his second, buying and selling companies for JP Morgan, he minted a commercial model from the calm opulence of United's discreet Mayfair office that soon became the envy of the football world.
(3) For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the US director of Reservoir Dogs , Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past.
(4) The film attacked Luzhkov's opulent lifestyle and that of his wife, Yelena Baturina, the world's third richest woman.
(5) He laughs from a red leather chair in his gilded suite at the Foreign Office, the most opulent of ministerial quarters.
(6) This is a song so opulently miserable that it's almost a parody of heartbreak songs.
(7) Merkel was on Monday the first western leader to woo Erdoğan in his new presidential palace in Ankara, a widely mocked exercise in over-the-top opulence that cost a reported $600m (£415m) to build.
(8) The wedding was a characteristically opulent affair, with specially made china bearing the logo Prince had taken to using in lieu of a name in the wake of his rebellion against his record label, Warner Brothers (he was known publicly as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince at the time).
(9) The refurbishment of the Kensington Palace apartment for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, a renovation boosted by £4.5m of taxpayers' money, has made the space neither "lavish" nor "opulent" but just like "an ordinary family home", according to royal aides.
(10) On Sunday, almost a year after the internet entrepreneur and several of his associates were arrested in a spectacular dawn raid on the mansion, about 200 invited guests will gather at the opulent estate for the launch of Mega.
(11) This time, though, Valery Gergiev and co are not bringing one of their Russian specialities, but Die Frau ohne Schatten, the most opulent of Richard Strauss's operas.
(12) Relaxing in his opulent Thames-side penthouse apartment, the only BBC presenter to be openly critical of the former BBC Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas in the wake of the "Sachsgate" affair is as garrulous as ever.
(13) It is made of luxurious materials including silver and silk, with an ostrich feather and a neat row of holes that would once have carried an opulently jewelled hatband.
(14) But if you’re investor Carl Icahn, billionaire owner of Atlantic City’s decaying but still opulent, elephant-fronted Taj, you have some odds in your favor.
(15) Photograph: Victoria and Albert Museum The sheer opulence of the materials, including little pearls and gems stitched into the fabric, doomed many of the items when they fell out of fashion or favour after the Reformation and there were bonfires of precious fabrics to recover the gold and silver from the thread.
(16) Based on this information, a subsegment of the total area is delineated as a possible neighborhood for an office location and a physician-opulation ratio for this subsegment is determined.
(17) Flamboyant opulence and welfare-to-work, it's fair to say, are not the easiest of fits.
(18) I remember sitting in my parents’ council house in Carshalton and hearing about the incredibly opulent funeral of Queen Mary and thinking, no matter how rich or important you are, life always ends the same way.
(19) If you see a medieval city on screen today, chances are it was knocked up on a computer, and even as you watch it, all this on screen opulence – based on binary units of data – will look as convincing a year from now as the back-projection in Hitchcock's Marnie.
(20) The former Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb has provided 11 luxury watches to secure the $10m (£6.4m) bond that enabled his release from custody, along with his wife’s wedding ring, three opulent cars and 10 properties.
Profusion
Definition:
(n.) The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting.
(n.) Abundance; exuberant plenty; lavish supply; as, a profusion of commodities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Systolic time intervals measured after profuse sweating can give a false impression of cardiac function.
(2) Numerous CA fibers which are first observed at the level of the preoptic area, ascend through the central zone of the telencephalon and arborize profusely particularly within the medial zone of area dorsalis telencephali.
(3) Sky News has apologised profusely after one of its presenters was shown rifling through the personal belongings of a stricken passenger at the MH17 crash site.
(4) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
(5) One patient had died of profuse rectovaginal bleeding.
(6) Brain hematomas caused by AVMs were on average bigger than those caused by AOVMs (58.8 and 20% of large hematomas, respectively), and intraventricular and subarachnoid hemorrhages were also more common and profuse in patients with AVMs.
(7) A common although infrequently recognized complication associated with the use of a pneumatic tourniquet is profuse bleeding from the wound after deflation of the tourniquet.
(8) Profuse calcium oxalate dihydrate crystals were detected in some samples 11 days after the race.
(9) The mean birth weight and height were significantly greater in the control group, and no control infant had an episode of cyanosis or pallor or repeated episodes of profuse sweating observed during their sleep.
(10) Profuse rectal bleeding, a large ischiorectal abscess, and an acute condition of the abdomen necessiated a sigmoid colostomy with drainage of the ischiorectal abscess.
(11) There was poor correlation between the pulmonary function tests and the nodular profusion on the chest radiograph and CT (r less than 0.50).
(12) The observations allow the conclusion that during acute otitis media the duration of mastoiditis development reduced and many classical symptoms of mastoiditis, e. g. protrusion of the posterior-superior wall of the external acoustic meatus, profuse purulent discharge from the ear, hyperemia, swelling of the behind-the-ear area, occurred less frequently.
(13) Some patients with scarred focal proliferative glomerulonephritis showed profuse proteinuria, a nephrotic syndrome and progression to renal insufficiency.
(14) In contrast with the situation only a decade ago, a profusion of new potential AEDs has been introduced for world-wide clinical testing.
(15) The other patient died of profuse pulmonary hemorrhage.
(16) Exploration laparotomy showed a round perforation at the site of the right uterine horn, absence of the right fallopian tube, and profuse hemorrhage from the horn and parametrium.
(17) The author describes the case-histories of four leiomyomas in the course of five years, all were the cause of profuse haemorrhage.
(18) In particular, Aspergillus fumigatus was cultured more frequently than would have been anticipated from its profusion in the air.
(19) Microscopically, there was severe necrotizing angiopathy with profuse fibrin deposition in renal glomeruli and sinusoids of peripheral lymph nodes.
(20) In the untreated state, the diarrhea was never profuse.