live in luxury

It’s not even that he wants money to live in luxury: Harpagon just wants to possess it.

“This investment network is directed by the highest levels of Hamas leadership and has allowed Hamas senior officials to live in luxury while ordinary Palestinians in Gaza struggle in harsh living and economic conditions,” the Treasury Department said last week after the first rounds of sanctions were announced.

His wife, Alice, wrote best-selling romantic novels about life in rural Sussex—where, thanks to her royalties, the couple could live in luxury.

“They live in luxury while our children eat dirt, migrate and die abroad.”

Mr. Kibaki resigned his office in 2013 but not before receiving a generous retirement package that allowed him to live in luxury in his Nairobi apartment and at his country estate.