extravagance

How To Use extravagance In A Sentence

• Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
• The American people with one consent gave themselves to an amazing extravagance of land speculation.
• Such a cosmogonic extravagance appeared to diminish the magnificence of the created order in our own world.
• RB: So what is your biggest extravagance? The Sun
• Davies, wishing to give dignity to his Celtic mythology, determines to find the arkite idolatry there too, and the style in which he proceeds to do this affords a good specimen of the extravagance which has caused Celtic antiquity to be looked upon with so much suspicion. Celtic Literature
• It's failure is based on unrivalled extravagance and excess, poor management and a desire to ignore any form of business or common sense.
• Brother Jonathan," then just published by Blackwood in three large volumes, was read to him every night for weeks, and greatly to his satisfaction, as I then understood; though it seems by what Dr. Bowring -- I beg his pardon, Sir John Bowring -- says on the subject, that the "white-haired sage" was wide enough awake, on the whole, to form a pretty fair estimate of its unnaturalness and extravagance: being himself a great admirer of Richardson's ten-volume stories, like The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
• Towards Christmas, expect to see knits which have taken the fashion craze for extravagance the whole way - and why not?
• By his late twenties, Disraeli's sartorial and social extravagance had left him deep in debt.
• For a prime minister who fought the election on improving public services, such increases look like thoughtless and tactless extravagance.