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Extravagant in sentence

118 examples of Extravagant in a sentence

She had heard him at the Library of Congress a few weeks before at this extravagant black-tie affair.
So he said that this principle of nature, consonance: "This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, lest I should be accounted an extravagant freak ... " That's what we all have to watch out for, (Laughter) especially at this meeting.
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.
I dreamt I'd become a writer of songs, that I would sing those songs to vast numbers of people all over the world, that I would be paid extravagant amounts of money, that I'd become famous, that I'd marry a beautiful woman, have children, raise a family, buy a big house in the country, keep dogs, grow wine, have rooms full of Grammy Awards, platinum discs, and what have you.
Stars are born, they die, they explode in these extravagant displays.
The art form pioneered by Okuni continues to delight audiences with the actors' elaborate makeup, extravagant and delicately embroidered costumes, and the unmistakable melodrama of the stories told on stage.
Off the top, we want to bring things into the community and come up with these extravagant strategies and deployments, but we never talk to the community about them.
But what most agree on is the extravagant scale of the excursion.
They would draw extravagant pictures in the foam of the tea, very much like the espresso art you might see in coffee shops today.
This is a cruel, impulsive, and extravagant king who had as little regard for his people as he did for his six wives.
Why should such an extravagant appendage evolve?
Only especially fit organisms can afford to divert resources to maintaining such an extravagant appendage.
Louhi lavished her guest with extravagant hospitality and promised him the hand of her beautiful daughter— if he could craft what she wished.
Seventh, be rationally extravagant.
The people who actually have no money, who have no extravagant budget, but who realize that actually you might achieve greater success in uptake of a government program by actually doubling the level of benefits you pay, but you'll probably achieve exactly that same effect simply by redesigning the form and writing it in comprehensible English.
The 2002 version of "The Time Machine" is just the latest in a string of terribly disappointing Hollywood remakes that fall flat on their face despite extravagant special effects.
Disney has really got to get more information about Chinese history if they want to create an extravagant movie.
There is a uk edition to this show which is rather less extravagant than the US version.
Financially strapped Paramount pulled out all the stops for this '34 stage adaptation entry: big budget, large cast, extravagant production and Mitch Leisen tagged as the director.
Nicolas Page plays the angst ridden tenor of opera, all extravagant gestures, at one point demanding a knife so as to slit his own throat.
No extravagant props, no car chases, no clever one-liners.
Overall it was very nice, with extravagant costumes (This must have been high up on Liberace's top 100 list), good acting, and fantastic directing.
Wonderfully extravagant political western with a lovely Morricone score.
For a supposedly WB event Dick Powell/Ruby Keeler, it is very cheap looking as if all the money went into extravagant looking Bubsy Berkeley inspired number that is dull.
The movies feels like a extravagant soap episode and I can absolutely recommend this film to men and woman.
We whine about extravagant cute foppishness by the brothers Coen, but bury straight sweet refreshing slaps in our supersilly faces like this $350,000 wonder, also generated in/from the northmidwest?
The new chapters are about extravagant situations which make no sense at all.
The violence was very extravagant, but what else did you expect from this title?
This seems to be the same absurd Cruikshank who had a tiny flash of fame with his extravagant, apparently unsubstantiated claims downplaying the scale of the looting of the Baghdad Museum, asserting that the Museum was a legitimate military target and charging that the looting was "an inside job".
First off, don't come in expecting a stylish, extravagant film with excellent cinematography.
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