sumptuous

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He converted the try and produced a sumptuous drop-goal to demonstrate his growing confidence after he returned to the side for the injured Sam Costelow.

From BBC

Caravaggio’s “Boy With a Basket of Fruit,” one of his most dazzlingly beautiful juvenilia, bears the sumptuous hallmarks of his bold style and technique, in which he eschewed drawing to paint directly on canvas.

From The Wall Street Journal

A sumptuous sofa in dark-green velvet from Claremont Furnishing anchors the room without drawing attention away from the other elements.

From The Wall Street Journal

The nizam’s court, with its sumptuous palaces, its concubines, its rituals and recitations of poetry and music, was the chief inheritor of the archaic grandeur of the moguls.

From The Wall Street Journal

The play, a sumptuous historical pastiche, is both an invitation and a daunting challenge to theater makers.

From Los Angeles Times