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Simple sentences
I would like to live in luxury.
I told her that we couldn't afford such a luxury.
A television set used to be a luxury.
He lives in luxury.
She was brought up in the lap of luxury.
Traveling is a luxury I cannot afford.
Travelling is a luxury I can't allow myself.
Moderation is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
He lives in a luxury apartment close to Central Park.
Such luxury is beyond my reach.
At that time, white bread and meat were considered a luxury.
Tom absconded with millions of dollars from his company and is living a life of luxury on an island in the Mediterranean.
Higher education is not a luxury.
Luxury goods are not essential.
Tom led a life of luxury.
Training is not a luxury, it's an investment.
Taking a taxi is a luxury for me.
Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.
He led a life of luxury.
They used to live in luxury.
Have you heard? Our neighbor won the lottery, and she's gone to the Bahamas on a luxury cruise.
It's a luxury we can't afford.
It is a luxury cruise.
I don't have the luxury of being generous.
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I'll go and place you in luxury.
Is this what you call Mumbai luxury?
To live, laugh and indulge themselves in the lap of luxury.
It's such a luxury to have somebody to talk to.
The story of a man who loved a woman more than his honor and a woman who wanted luxury more than his love.
Sitting in the lap of luxury, the world at his feet.
You wallow in luxury all the year.
Anne-Marie loves beauty, luxury, cleanliness.
There, now. - Thank you. Lead a life of luxury.
He gave way to the luxury of self-reproach.
Unfortunately it is too well known who had been keeping her. And in such luxury!
A man who needs to live in luxury is not a true artist.
I've given you every luxury a gill could want.
I don't have the luxury of thinking about charity.
Do you promise to live a different life? Do you agree that so much luxury, money, and power was a mistake?
No luxury, but simple comfort. Pay up Micawber! Pay up Micawber!
You'd like to live a life of luxury wearing ermine wraps, a bracelet perhaps or this sparkling gem.
No pride at all. That's a luxury a woman in love can't afford.
Well, there he goes, sitting in the lap of luxury, the world at his feet.
A large fleet is a luxury England can ill afford.
And where articles of luxury once poured forth. now streamed the guardians of our American life.
He came back with a big luxury liner floating on an ocean of whiskey and soda.
It doesn't look as if you have been living in luxury for the past two years.
You should be surrounded by luxury, beauty, elegance.
Luxury, gentle living, money.
I was sent here to relieve the misery, and I see nothing but glitter, luxury and immorality!
Joan has been used to every luxury, Corbett.
What you love is my way of helping myself to luxury.
Buy whatever we want, live in luxury. Right?
A car's no longer a luxury.
I can't afford that luxury.
Lead a life of luxury.
What luxury.
It won't be luxury. just the smallest London flat. but it will be ours.
You only want to live in luxury.
I've surrounded you in luxury.
Who's the not very amiable young drunkard who doesn't seem to be averse to luxury?
News and current affairs
The nature of these problems means that the US does not have the luxury of turning inward no matter what the outcome in Iraq.
Many societies view healthcare as a right, not a luxury.
Demand for luxury goods is booming, alongside weak demand for goods and services consumed by lower-income groups.
Could the crisis remind us that we buy luxury items more because of the status they bring than because of their intrinsic value?
From largely unused land a generation ago, Pudong has become a booming center of skyscrapers, luxury hotels, parks, industry, and vast stretches of apartment buildings.
That is a luxury that Croatia cannot afford.
They don't have the luxury of restricting suffrage to property owners, or to more educated citizens.
The present crisis exposes this pattern of European behavior as what it has always been - the luxury of looking backwards.
Are Russians so different from us in the western democratic world, or is democracy a luxury that only old, stable, prosperous, and satisfied societies can afford?
Time is a luxury that Europe does not have.
Innovation in government is not an intellectual luxury, a topic confined to seminars and panel discussions, or a matter only of administrative reforms.
For the past couple of years, finance ministers and central bank heads have had the luxury of using the IMF meetings to congratulate themselves on rapid global growth, regardless of how much they actually contributed to it.
When the Democratic-Republicans, led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, replaced the Federalists, they quickly decided that their small-government principles were an out-of-power luxury.
Though now better off than they have ever been in material terms, the Chinese people under the current regime are denied any real opportunity to retain and refine their own dignity beyond the quest for wealth and luxury goods.
Historians have the luxury of debating whether terrorism may have been justified in certain situations in the past.
In the past, concern for the environment was viewed as a luxury; today, it is a necessity - a point grasped by some, but by no means all, economic architects yet.
But the next step in the argument - that the winner of an increasingly ugly contest will have the luxury of pursuing significantly different policies from his opponent - is much more uncertain.
Unchallenged in the world's unipolar moment, the US had the luxury of not knowing its strategic goals.
She is tempted by the shortcut Song promises and allows herself to be seduced by him in turn for a large sum of cash and luxury apartment.
As the crisis threatens the global economy, regulators do not have the luxury of taking their time.
The drivers of both the tractor and the metallic-silver luxury car were 45-year-old women, but any similarity between them ended there: the former was a peasant, the latter the wife of a wealthy businessman.
That means, in many cases, less luxury spending - something that is hard to reconcile with the image of France as the country of fashion, perfume, and champagne.
But excess is out of style, and there are reports of cutbacks in luxury goods everywhere.
If you did, that's a luxury that the world's poorest billion people can't afford, because they have to live for an entire day on what you spent on just one of those drinks.
Of course, in order to pressure North Korea's government to give up its nuclear option, the current international economic sanctions, which target WMD-related products and luxury goods, probably should continue.
Governments don't have the luxury of waiting forever, and they can no longer use the myth of popular quiescence to avoid initiating the necessary reforms that will address the public's underlying grievances.
So reckoning with the country's global impact has been added to an already complex policy agenda, at a point when most countries have the luxury of maintaining a largely domestic focus.