Sentences with phrase «on wretched excess»

Via Luxury Launches via Gizmodo More on Wretched Excess Wretched Excess Department: SoleiraSun Wretched Excess Dept: A House Designed For Cats Wretched Excess Dept: A # 250,000 Dog House

Take, for example, Hirst's 2007 sculpture For the Love of God (a.k.a. the «Crystal Skull»), a platinum cast of a human cranium encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds: the piece was interpreted by some as a commentary on wretched excess in an art world awed by glamour and swimming in cash, but, whatever Hirst's satiric intention may have been, it was hard to detect in the asking price of # 50 million.

Not exact matches

-- William Cohan, author of HOUSE OF CARDS: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street and MONEY AND POWER: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

for all the perceived» Lack of Confidence» in the US for VW - Audi... for all the doomsaying and lambasting of the brand... for all the wretched excess media focus on VW - Audi in the US....

At a time when the world's economy is in shambles and fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are on everyone's minds, there remains only one car that ticks all the enthusiast boxes without setting off a single wretched - excess alarm.

or alternatively an Eagle at less than half... both with gobs of usable performance on public roads versus the wretched excess the hypercars have on offer that you'll never be able to use [not to mention most of the owners being incapable of using it]

Call it marketing, call it wretched excess, call it college football on the aircraft carrier used to bury Osama bin Laden at sea.