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Noun
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It is set in a world of dazzling opulence, caught by the mansion of the Price family, whose patriarch, Sebastian Price has built up Legacy Investments into a billionaire behemoth.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
13 Oct. 2025 -
The collection paid homage to the Art Deco movement, popularized in the 1920s and 1930s and characterized by opulence and geometric designs.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
10 Oct. 2025
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Since the outset of Major League Baseball’s Live Ball Era in 1920 through the present day, Kershaw’s magnificence begins with winning percentage.—
Wayne G. McDonnell,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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Five different combined wavelengths show the true magnificence and diversity of phenomena at play in the Crab Nebula.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
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A bit of butter, added at the end, gives pastry cream a nice shine and additional richness.—
Stephanie Ganz,
Southern Living,
12 Oct. 2025
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The richness of this story and the beauty of Rindo’s prose are getting praise from readers and critics.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
12 Oct. 2025
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Among them, Empire stands out as pure olfactory artistry—a composition that captures the burning brush and smoky grandeur of a Napoleonic encampment.—
Michael Stefanov,
Robb Report,
14 Oct. 2025
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The cabins along the right-hand side are frozen in Victorian grandeur.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
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Not on his wife’s behalf but, rather, for the fact that he’d been given this luxury, had spent his life tending to his mind in the space that his wife had cleared for him.—
Ayşegül Savaş,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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Even the more utilitarian and mundane areas of the home include unexpected conveniences and luxuries.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
12 Oct. 2025
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But then, what is art if not an attempt to tidy up the real world’s teeming luxuriance?—
Sebastian Smee,
Washington Post,
5 Dec. 2023
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The comic luxuriance of Roman references should not blind us to the significance of these constant appeals to the Roman Republic and to classical virtue.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2022
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The mild-mannered DiLiegro has firm opinions about everything from meat-cutting to the resplendence of the Boston Red Sox.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Aug. 2022
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All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not, ipso facto, auriferous.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Oct. 2021
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Opening at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, José María Velasco features 24 of the eponymous master’s paintings, which — like his American contemporaries in the Hudson River School — largely consist of sweeping landscapes of natural splendor.—
Brendan Ruberry,
semafor.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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During the trip, Zahn kept calling Gomez extolling the costumes and the wacky splendor of the whole event.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
30 Sep. 2025
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