Sentences with phrase «wretched excess»

I suppose it isn't as bad as Takuya Tsuchida's design for Wretched Excess Dept: a Lamborghini in the Living Room

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.

More like wretched excess conspicuous consumption to little or no end other than boosting one's flagging ego in the vain pursuit of relevancy and meaning in one's vapid meaningless albeit money filled life.

And I liked it, too, for the way it played Tad and Hollywood more or less straight, instead of diving into wretched excess.

The only reason they can» afford» this ephemeral moment that stands almost ZERO chance of ever seeing the light of a production line is because Red Bull is footing the bill... not in order to bring this vulgar over the top wretched excess HyperCar to fruition..

The sale, and the huge publicity surrounding it, launched an era of what can only be called wretched excess (judging from some of the «tasting» menus)...

And do we really need yet another vulgar wretched excess HyperCar?

PS; The whole bloody gram point of the likes of Pagani and Koengisegg is not to go down the road of wretched excess technology for technologies sake.

Two and a half years ago, when we first covered this then proposed building in Singapore that had elevators delivering Maseratis to the apartments on each floor, I titled the post Wretched Excess or Clever Design?

In the end, we never did the Weird Japanese House of the Week, it seemed to glorify wretched excess and waste.

But the ease leads to wretched excess sometimes, where, whether at conferences or not, people follow (or purport to) literally thousands of these tiny websites, so that the flow of incoming data would challenge the best speed reader.

Today is Boxing Day, a great idea that turned into wretched excess (and is now just another online shopping day)

Bovard clearly views much of the past spending as wasteful and wretched excess - and he no doubt would view Trump's call for increased spending in these areas with a jaundiced eye.

-- 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

Jillian Lauren renders the taste and feel of wretched excess — be it sex, drugs, food, or Los Angeles — with a savage veracity and style all her own.

Those who remember the original «Kiss of Death» will be waiting for somebody to push a wheelchair down the stairs, but in a plot like this, that would be wretched excess.

John Carpenter's remake of The Thing is a wretched excess.

There may have been an acceptable action flick at the heart of Skip Woods's script, but director Jon Moore (Max Payne) buries it under misguided pacing and wretched excess.

and RR and its minders have no sense of humor... therefore this wretched excess tasteless excuse for conspicuous consumption RR is all too true... unfortunately....

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....

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]

Here in the US VW is claiming across the automotive media that they want to dominate Pikes Peak in 2018 with this wretched excess pretentious excuse for an EV.

a wretched excess of fussiness....

No stranger to wretched excess, I've always felt that if one helping were good, then surely two would be better, especially if we're talking about dishes of vanilla ice cream or tumblers of single malt scotch!

More wretched excess: Wretched Excess: The SUV's of Appliances Wretched Excess Dept: World's Largest Bathtub Needs 6,340 Gallons of Water

It could be a new addition to the Wretched Excess department.

1) The Sin of Not Following Through 2) The Sin of Valuing Gizmos Over Appropriate Design 3) The Sin of Laughably Inappropriate Use 4) The Sin of Wretched Excess.

In the end, it's clear that the cost and complexity of that elevator clearly puts it in the wretched excess category, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

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

Wretched Excess, 1564 Style; The Vasari Corridor in Florence, Italy, The Original Grade - Separated Pedestrian Skywalk

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

See also::: Big Houses Are Not Green: America's McMansion Problem,:: Wretched Excess Dept: A 50000 SF House and:: Wretched Excess Dept: Aspen Vacation Homes

More Wretched Excess Department Wretched Excess Dept: A House Designed For Cats Wretched Excess: The SUV's of Appliances Wretched Excess Dept: The Interiors of Private Jets