1.   And every year there were those sumptuous Christmas dinners.

2.   President Clinton welcomed Kim with a private Oval Office meeting and a sumptuous state dinner.

3.   The group golfed and fished for trout by day and discussed global markets over sumptuous dinners.

4.   Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen celebrated the event with a thousand dignitaries at a sumptuous buffet dinner in a posh Johannesburg hotel Tuesday night.

5.   There are no ambassadors making toasts at sumptuous dinners, no crowds clamoring for visas at consulate windows.

6.   We dined at the newly-opened The Sierra Room owned by young Christine Gil, who sat with us after a sumptuous dinner served by solicitous female attendants.