Literary notes about luxurious (AI summary)
The word “luxurious” in literature is employed to evoke a sense of opulence, refinement, and sometimes moral excess. Writers use it to describe not only sumptuous settings—such as elegant dining rooms and richly appointed interiors [1, 2, 3]—but also to characterize personal habits and lifestyles that border on extravagant indulgence [4, 5, 6]. In some contexts the term conveys refined pleasure and comfort, highlighting the ease and sensory delight of a well-appointed life [7, 8, 9]. In other instances, however, it serves as a subtle critique of overabundance or moral decay, suggesting that excessive luxury can lead to indolence or corruption in social and political realms [10, 11, 12]. Overall, “luxurious” is a versatile descriptor that enriches the narrative by providing layers of aesthetic appeal as well as social commentary [13, 14, 15].
- They entered the elegant, newly decorated, and luxurious dining room.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - The interior of this luxurious bedchamber might have made a striking picture for an artist's pencil.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. Braddon - Outside my friend's house, on the contrary, I enjoyed what, considering the habits of the locality, was the most luxurious reception.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner - When I did get to bed at last I was unspeakably tired; the stretching out, and the relaxing of the long-tense muscles, how luxurious, how delicious!
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain - She did lie down; she cast herself wearily upon the luxurious sofa in the dressing-room, and buried her face in the down pillows and tried to sleep.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. Braddon - “It lived the tranquil and luxurious life of a creature of independent means.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain - It was his luxurious custom to shave while sitting snugly in a tubful of hot water.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis - And she tried to keep herself awake in order to prolong the illusion of this luxurious life that she would soon have to give up.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - The time, unheeded, sped away, While love's luxurious pulse beat high, Beneath thy silver-gleaming ray, To mark the mutual-kindling eye.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns - And so, by the dog of Egypt, we have been unconsciously purging the State, which not long ago we termed luxurious.
— from The Republic by Plato - They disdained to serve the luxurious indolence of his unworthy son.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - The people, under no restraint, soon grew dissolute, luxurious, and idle.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke - With her, to be one of the people, was to be miserable and innocent; one of the privileged, a luxurious tyrant.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli - He will not feed them by an over-luxurious diet, nor allow the healthier instincts of the soul to be corrupted by music and poetry.
— from Laws by Plato - It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau