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Extravagance in sentence

49 examples of Extravagance in a sentence

I'm sitting there, I got new earbuds, old Walkman, I realize this is just the kind of extravagance I used to take for granted even when I was extravagant.
But I came from a modest immigrant family where my idea of luxury was having a pork tongue and jelly sandwich in my school lunchbox, so the thought of spending my whole life sitting around in armchairs just thinking ... Well, that struck me as the height of extravagance and frivolity.
It was Irving Thalberg, a former secretary with intuitive genius, who achieved rational extravagance.
Her husband (Richard Ney) has lost all his money through a combination of his foolhardiness and her extravagance, and they are reduced to living in a tiny room, with little or no prospects.
Fellini's SATYRICON is one of the true art-movies of the late 60ties European cinema, it's extravagance of color, religious undertones, philosophical questioning and eroticism is captivating.
Christopher Lloyd takes a relatively low-key approach to his role and does well for it, allowing for Lithgow's extravagance.
To accomplish these goals, Xi is centralizing power, launching a charm offensive, and cracking down on official corruption and extravagance.
Indeed, the extravagance of these conferences seems to grow, rather than shrink, as their dismal results become more apparent.
To call these people’s ostentatious displays of extravagance wasteful is to miss the point: a world of glittering dreams that must remain entirely beyond our grasp is precisely what many people want to see.
Similarly, a debt left unpaid too long by a government is a burden on future generations: I may enjoy the benefits of government extravagance, but my children will have to foot the bill.
His ostentation and extravagance were deeply un-Prussian.
Corrupt rulers can use the billions they receive from oil and mining corporations for personal extravagance, or to buy arms for troops to crush democratic resistance movements.
The slump had been created by fiscal extravagance, they insisted, and therefore could be cured only by fiscal austerity.
Talking up previous fiscal extravagance made a bond-market attack on heavily indebted governments seem more plausible (and more likely); the confidence fairy promised to reward fiscal frugality by making the economy more productive.
His extravagance, clownishness, and even his girls were part of his popular appeal.
In Tunisia, the notorious extravagance of Ben Ali’s extended family included a caged tiger and the use of a private jet to fly in ice cream from St. Tropez.
The rich should be urged not to flaunt their wealth: extravagance amid much poverty arouses wrath.
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.
This stance appears to be closely aligned with Xi’s rather cryptic recent comments about a “mass line” education campaign aimed at addressing problems arising from the “four winds” of formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance.
Have we forgotten so readily the repugnance with which we discovered the dishonesty and extravagance that helped to wreck our prosperity in the West?
Likewise, the extravagance of the jubilee celebrations in Versailles-far more pompous than the modest ceremony in the Elysée 40 years ago-will be inversely proportional to their political relevance.
When Mao Zedong purged his most senior Party boss, Liu Shaoqi, during the Cultural Revolution, Liu’s wife was paraded through the streets wearing ping-pong balls around her neck as a symbol of wicked decadence and extravagance.
But to mock someone for having a sensible watch at a modest price puts pressure on others to join the quest for ever-greater extravagance.
"Have you been to the opera?""Not yet; but I shall go next year, when I am living at Paris to finish reading for the bar.""As I had the honour of putting it to your husband," said the chemist, "with regard to this poor Yanoda who has run away, you will find yourself, thanks to his extravagance, in the possession of one of the most comfortable houses of Yonville.
The cure marvelled at this humour, although Emma's religion, he thought, might, from its fervour, end by touching on heresy, extravagance.
I received this last part with some token of surprise and disorder, and had much ado to avoid sinking down, for indeed I loved him to an extravagance not easy to imagine; but he perceived my disorder.
I do not say to keep an equipage, and make a figure, as the world calls it, nor did I expect it, or desire it; for as I abhorred the levity and extravagance of my former life, so I chose now to live retired, frugal, and within ourselves.
He imagined, and calmly could he imagine it, that her extravagance, and consequent distress, had obliged her to dispose of it for some immediate relief.
Vanity, while seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at least its offspring, necessity, had required to be sacrificed.
The light had gone out of my uncle's eyes and the extravagance from his manner.