With this temperate rationalism is combined a clearness and purity of diction, founded on the Ciceronian style, but without Cicero's sumptuousness of structure, that recalls the best prose of the Silver Age.
The boy of twenty had already mastered the secret of elegiac verse, which even Catullus had used stiffly and awkwardly, and writes it with an ease, a colour, a sumptuousness of rhythm which no later poet ever equalled.
At no time before or since was there such fantastical fashion in dress, both in cut and gay colors, nor more sumptuousness in costume or luxury in display among the upper classes, and such squalor in low life.
These domestic chapels were thoroughly furnished with every usual ornament and appliance in a style of sumptuousness proportionate to the rank and means of the master of the house.
They will be, and are, greatly admired by those to whose minds sumptuousness is the chief element in beauty, and rather second-rate execution of conceptions distinctly third-rate gives no offense.
The triviality of Italian art, its love of detail, and its seeking after superficialities of expression, did not appeal to him, but in its sumptuousness and sensuous charm he found something with which he could fully sympathise.
The perspective being carefully given as of figures actually seen above the eye-line, and with all the sumptuousness and the mixed elements of the design there is a certain restraint and monumental severity which preserves its dignity.
The sumptuousness of it acts like a loadstone toward steel, or the candle-flame to the moth, and many are the wings that are singed and clipped within its boundaries.
But as a writer in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' well put it about a century ago, "The sumptuousness of the outside but aggravated the misery of the wretches within.
Her sumptuousness made a man’s glance drop instinctively to her bosom and watch the drawing of her breath.
And the new piece, so it was announced in advance, was to be staged with unusual sumptuousness and unheard-of effects.
The work was mounted with great sumptuousness and scrupulous care, especially with regard to the costumes.
The sumptuousness that in time encrusted these sanctuaries was that of a jewel--the Oriental, interior, concentrated sumptuousness of the cloistered arts.
Never have I felt my indignation more thoroughly aroused than when wandering hour after hour through the voluptuous sumptuousness of Versailles.
Both in town and country the Peels were noted for the sumptuousness of their entertainments and at the same time for the good taste invariably displayed.
The Palmerstons also gave dinners which were noted for the sumptuousnessof the fare and the distinction of the guests.
Before this event his work had contained many of the elements of sumptuousness and sensuality; but in this eastern land his colour reached maturity.
In this medium he arrived at a sumptuousness unsurpassed by preceding painters.
Coningsby with an uncertain step followed his guide through a bed-chamber, the sumptuousness of which he could not notice, into the dressing-room of Lord Monmouth.
