All 10 Uses of
luxurious
in
Atlas Shrugged
- That's the only way anybody ever gets rich in this world"-he glanced at the luxurious black car-"as you ought to know."†
Chpt 1.10
- The huge blanket of fur made her look like a child bundled for a snowstorm; the luxurious texture transformed the innocence of the awkward bundle into the elegance of a perversely intentional contrast: into a look of stressed sensuality.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- She looked like a schoolgirl, with the tailored collar of a pale blue nightgown lying severely high at the base of her throat; the nightgown's front was a deliberate contrast to the severity, a spread of pale blue embroidery that looked luxuriously adult and feminine.†
Chpt 2.3
- He wore a gray suit, he had pale blue eyes and blond hair; it was not the colors that made his figure seem icily implacable, it was the fact that the suit had an expensive simplicity seldom flaunted these days, that it belonged in the sternly luxurious office of a rich corporation, that his bearing came from a civilized era and clashed with the place around him.†
Chpt 2.4
- It was the thought of Mulligan's wealth, the luxurious car and the sight of Galt's hands on the wheel that made her wonder for the first time whether Galt, too, was wealthy.†
Chpt 3.1
- In an improvised parking lot behind the stands, the glitter of luxurious new cars seemed a brightly reassuring sight.†
Chpt 3.3
- When she looked around her once more, she was walking down a quiet street, past the glass doorways where lights were burning in the carpeted lobbies of luxurious buildings.†
Chpt 3.4
- They listened to the voices around them, to the splinters of panic trickling through the luxurious room.†
Chpt 3.5
- At a time of desperate public need, it's our duty to sacrifice our luxurious tastes and eat our way back to prosperity by adapting ourselves to the simple, wholesome foodstuff on which the peoples of the Orient have so nobly subsisted for centuries.†
Chpt 3.5
- The luster of the cloth, streaming and shifting with her movements, made it look as if the light of the room she entered were her personal property, sensitively obedient to-the motions of her body, wrapping her in a sheet of radiance more luxurious than the texture of brocade, underscoring the pliant fragility of her figure, giving her an air of so natural an elegance that it could afford to be scornfully casual.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(luxurious) rich and superior in quality