Patriotism and communalism were luxuries that they could ill afford now that partition had ruptured so many of their traditional subsistence networks.
The only drawback is the exorbitant price tag that comes along with the luxuries.
The food, the little luxuries, the attention were far superior to anything he could possibly have had at home.
Telephones, televisions, and automobiles were once luxuries for only the very rich, but now many poor people own them.
Both directions of this metaphorical inversion make environmental, social, or long-term analysis seem like unaffordable luxuries, for medicine and antiterrorism.
The recent availability of fresh meat and vegetables has helped to diversify the diet, but only for the families that can afford such small luxuries.
Services hitherto considered luxuries were now advertised widely.
Rather, this story exemplifies the moral insignificance of luxuries.
Of course, one reason why these major centres dominated the service hierarchy - even for luxuries - was that they were very large.
In this sentence, luxuries have suddenly become necessary - there are no longer the two categories of essential and non-essential but pleasant.
People with rewarding careers who live in sought after locations, affording luxuries and premium quality products.
Indeed, it seems obvious that, with regard to the distribution of luxuries, the type of priority we assign to the badly off does not exist.
In fact, she becomes desperate to do anything to regain these luxuries.
Milk and meat were only the luxuries of life.
He began a playful description, - long, but never tedious; alluring, yet without enthusiasm - a dreamy suggestion of refined delights and luxuries.
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