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118 examples of Extravagant in a sentence

Henry Wilcoxson, his Marc Anthony of Cleopatra and the always beautiful Loretta Young team up in this extravagant epic.
That gave a satirical and extravagant turn to the show.
Now out on DVD with added features largely devoted to self-praise for this super-budget Indie film, "Charlotte Somebody" suffers from insufficient critical reviews and extravagant overpraise here on IMDb.
It also shows that the typical "armpit of America" slam I sometimes hear about Bakersfield does not take into account the many affluent citizens who own high-dollar extravagant homes.
Okay, my title sounds a little extravagant.
The characters were the typical college kids; nothing too extravagant.
This would make emerging markets and developing country members regard reserve accumulation as expensive and extravagant, thereby helping to liberate those resources to help the world economy overcome today’s crisis.
By 2013, Venezuela’s extravagant borrowing led international capital markets to shut it out, leading the authorities to print money.
Voters enthusiastically supported extravagant spending during a boom.
Historically, fiscal profligacy tends to take hold at times like these, with windfall revenues wasted on extravagant public projects.
It is that strategic objective that underlies America’s recent economic maneuvers, including Trump’s extravagant demand that China cut its trade surplus with the US by $200 billion in two years.
“When the credit of a country is in any degree questionable,” he argued, “it never fails to give an extravagant premium upon all the loans it has occasion to make.”
But by that time, even the civilian chancellor had resolved on extravagant war aims that made hopes for a negotiated peace illusory.
The French government, in this same spirit, has gone after public-sector workers’ extravagant pension benefits, as well as the legal retirement age, trying to increase it from 62 to 65.Anybody can grasp how child benefits for the wealthy or retirement at only 62 is unjustifiable.
Moreover, like China, Russia has embraced extravagant spectacles like the Olympic Games, in an effort to showcase the country’s magnificence and the beneficence of its leaders.
The prosecutors on Mueller’s team in the Virginia case opened the trial with a description of Manafort’s extravagant tastes, including a custom-made $15,000 ostrich-skin jacket (think leather that has caught the measles).
If so, it is not the game itself that they have forsaken, but rather the kind of game that football has become: a billion-dollar business, a prestige object for louche plutocrats, and an extravagant showpiece for corrupt governments and international sporting organizations.
Of course, there was often a disturbing incongruity between Diana’s commitment to the poor and sick, and the extravagant lifestyle she led.
To fix the roof, we may have to accept a less extravagant summer vacation.
India’s Censored Fight BackNEW DELHI – Go to see a movie in India nowadays, and despite the elaborate musical numbers and extravagant sets, you may well find the content pretty bland.
But whatever the eugenics movement’s extravagant claims and social crimes, including the forced sterilization of thousands (mainly women) in Europe and the US, today it is supposed to be different.
Moral hazard claims excuse inaction because “it was the bad banks taking and hiding extravagant risks.”
Making “Women’s Work” CountISTANBUL – Over the next few months, the 12,000 employees based at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California will complete their move to an extravagant new campus.
Asia’s Emerging CommunityMANILA – In recent months, China has sparred with the Philippines, Vietnam, and Japan over its extravagant territorial claims in the South and East China Seas and the West Philippine Sea.
Again, the empirical evidence does not support this extravagant claim.
NEW HAVEN – In his classic Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits(1724), Bernard Mandeville, the Dutch-born British philosopher and satirist, described – in verse – a prosperous society (of bees) that suddenly chose to make a virtue of austerity, dropping all excess expenditure and extravagant consumption.
Andhra Pradesh officials charged that PMFIs, which had lent around 80 billion rupees (nearly $2 billion) in the state, levy “usurious” interest rates (24-30% per year) to sustain their promoters’ extravagant salaries and profits.
Even the extravagant bailout of financial giant Citigroup, in which the US government has poured in $45 billion of capital and backstopped losses on over $300 billion in bad loans, may ultimately prove inadequate.
Similarly, college administrators who want to move their institutions up in the US News and World Reports rankings have made unwise decisions, such as investing in extravagant gyms at the expense of academics.
But I fear that change might cause a global economic crisis resulting from, say, an ugly unwinding of extravagant US borrowing trends.
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