(1) For developers and their dependent ecosystem of estate agents, architects, lawyers and builders, it has been a one-way super-bet.” About £15bn of investment is pouring into the Nine Elms area, which is directly across the river from super-swanky Chelsea but was until recently wasteland, sheds and warehouses.
(2) Yet the enemy of the bourgeoisie is impeccably bourgeois, and when I arrived for our meeting at a swanky hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, I found Haneke – just off a flight from Vienna, where he lives – tucking into a luxurious lunch in the restaurant.
(3) The swanky Royal Harbour (a title bestowed on it by George IV in 1821) and marina (where you can get your fish and chips and ice-creams) is right next door and there are children's rides on the beach itself.
(4) While the parcel cleared customs (expected to take three days) the men insisted Bowles stay in their swanky apartment in Goa and she was accompanied at all times.
(5) Transport for London, which runs the capital's tubes and buses, originally committed itself to relocating to swanky new space in the Shard, but eventually pulled out, with the consent of the building's owners.
(6) As well as swanky estate agents and yacht builders, all this is music to the ears of the big jewellers, auction houses and most prestigious wine estates.
(7) To the aesthete Guardian, the average City trader looks pretty ugly because they drive swanky cars and are spivs,” he tells me, “but you should respect the mores and the facts.” I promise to try.
(8) In some ways Co-op has all the accoutrements of big business: a swanky new £100m head office in central Manchester, glass-fronted and cylindrical, and big pay cheques for its bosses.
(9) Years ago I went out to a swanky birthday dinner, with set menu, which included some flat bits of pinky slime.
(10) As a result, he was able to buy the swanky vicarage in a Berkshire village that he still lives in.
(11) Or rather the London of bankers, lawyers and media folk who can afford to go to swanky restaurants.
(12) Furthermore, the swanky new developments planned for the manmade islands are being marketed not just at affluent Indonesians but, with a particular thrust, at overseas Chinese buyers from Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and mainland China, via aspirational television advertising that gushes in Mandarin about the vision of a “new lifestyle” in Pluit City.
(13) They’re both self-made, consider themselves the smartest guy in any room, have eponymous foundations (although Turnbull’s doesn’t tend to buy portraits of him), and both prefer their swanky personal residences than the ones the taxpayer has provided.
(14) There is no queue at the club-like wooden doors and just a few families are making use of the swanky and sizable (28m x 10m) pool.
(15) Beach towels at the swanky Fontainebleau Hotel have been embroidered with the words ‘kiss me’ from one of her pieces in her honour.
(16) Seated in a semi-swanky London hotel bar, the man opposite is a benign and playful presence, joshing that he'd like a gin and tonic (despite it being 11.30am), spying Cameron Diaz on the front of InStyle magazine and crying, "Look, they've put me on the cover!"
(17) After the Wall Street Crash in 1929, the family had to swap swanky London for rural Kent – though, as Trumpington admits, this new "poverty" was relative.
(18) They quaffed aperitifs at a swanky dinner in Brussels, where each table was named after a frightening enemy – from Godzilla and Darth Vader to Lord Voldemort and Doctor No .
(19) The same, stifling July heat does not reach the swanky air-conditioned rooms where the advocates and executors of India’s new industrial corridors are based.
(20) Venice is now firmly on the calendar of this new art world, alongside St Barts at Christmas and St Tropez in August, in a giddy round of glamour-filled socialising, from one swanky party to another.
Swanny
Definition:
(a.) Swanlike; as, a swanny glossiness of the neck.
Example Sentences:
(1) And Swanny, who is not the most demonstrative person on the planet, had this really weird look on his face and said, ‘You can’t give the j’accuse speech and then sit down and do your correspondence.’ I was thinking, ‘Well, that must have hit a bit harder than it felt.’” Across the chamber, her political foes looked suddenly downcast.
(2) I actually swung my chair around to Swanny [the then treasurer, Wayne Swan] and said, ‘Oh, I’ll have to bloody listen to them reply now.