You like expensive things.

They are not luxuries.

The Biology of Luxury

Advertisements urge us to buy luxuries.

That nasty boyfriend of yours has got expensive tastes.

I enjoy one great luxury... being left alone.

And that's a new way of looking at luxury goods.

I've lived on nothing for years... in luxury.

And the truth is that there are very different kinds of luxury, and there's luxury that is relative for people that don't have that much.

All those expensive items were given to her as gifts by her boyfriend, who used to be a board member in a subdivision of Red Cross at Chamber of Commerce.

Laptops are a luxury it's like giving them iPods. No.

Given that luxury goods provide individuals with a competitive advantage, higher luxury goods sales could indicate a brighter economic future for a country.

Why? While marketing has contributed to the rise, the luxury market s robust growth is actually rooted in biology.

At the same time, fortunes are being wasted on armaments, arms races or luxuries.

The culture of peace is no longer a political luxury it has become a political necessity.

It's a difficult and expensive commodity, until now.

China is soon to pass the U.S. as the number one market for luxury brands that's not including the Chinese expenditures in Europe and elsewhere.

What do you mean, luxury?

Hello, Louis. How extravagant you are, throwing away women.

Suites are for expense accounts. You're being extravagant.

So once you don't need to move, you don't need the luxury of that brain.

This diamond ring is too extravagant for me.

She's always able to make it. No luxuries and no frills, as she says.

as the number one market for luxury brands that's not including the Chinese expenditures in Europe and elsewhere.

I think so. We haven't done anything very extravagant yet.

Feelings are a luxury few women indulge in.

These men entice girls with necessities such as food, money or school fees, or luxuries such as expensive gifts, in exchange for sex.

Without peace and security, all the initiatives aimed at spreading a culture of peace would be mere intellectual luxury.

Such recovery as there has been in the luxury market has been largely limited to so called affordable luxuries shoes, handbags, or ties, rather than yachts or fast cars. Purchases of these relatively low cost items can be regarded as the withdrawal symptoms of the world s consumer binge.

Meat, for years the center of the American meal, became a sparingly apportioned luxury.

The spontaneity music has excludes it as a luxury item and makes it a patrimony of society.

Individuals or legal entities that trade luxurious goods or those with high prices or that perform activities that involve great amounts in cash.

An open fire while you bathe. What luxury!

I was recently at a conference on luxury organized by the Herald Tribune in Istanbul.

Those fees aren't bad, they're okay, but they are prohibitive to so many millions of poor people.

It's a great spot for gals who know how!

It was the 'El Dorado', splendor of a wild nobility of the tropics

The theatre requires time, and for me time is often a luxury.

And all of man's little devices to stir up the air are now no longer luxuries.

Similarly compressed oxygen and other medical supplies are really a luxury and can often be out of stock for months or even a year.

When medical expenses constituted only a small percentage of income, as was typically the case 50 years ago, an egalitarian approach to healthcare was a small extravagance. The direct and indirect costs were relatively minor and affordable.

Having a telephone in my country was a huge luxury.

And be kept in luxury by London's most celebrated surgeon.

All those expensive items were given to her as gifts by her boyfriend, who used to be a board member in a subdivision of Red Cross at Chamber of Commerce.

It said Lloyds would play a role in the plan, by adding an extended range of luxury skincare brands including La Roche Posay and Vichy in four stores.