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.
Economy the poor man's mints; extravagancethe rich man's pitfall.Martin Tupper. Americaneconomist.
I also think we'll see more restaurants offering obvious value, perhaps less absurd extravagance. Times, Sunday Times
Arabic's a glorious language for poetic extravagance, and we made the most of it. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
This might seem like an extravagance when you are setting up your business, but without your tools there is no business. The Sun
Man Singh, also a vassal to the Mughal Empire, had nonetheless managed to live with the extravagance of a king, with sixteen hundred wives populating his zenana, a veritable swarm of children, so many sons he could not remember all of their names. Shadow Princess
But for all her thrifty protests, it seems the odd extravagance does slip through the net. The Sun
The lack of eastern extravagance promises good things.
When the company went under, tales of his extravagance surged through the industry.
This, notwithstanding the dash of falsehood which may exist in Werter itself, and the boundless delirium of extravagance which it called forth in others, is a high praise which cannot justly be denied it. Criticism and Interpretation. By Thomas Carlyle
Puritan jurisprudence, 113; sabbatarian extravagance provokes reaction, 371. A History of American Christianity
But to get back to the question of a gay sensibility: cliche has us believe that amongst its ingredients are flamboyance, showiness, excess and extravagance.
Mr. Pearson's income allows of no extravagance in his way of living.
Economy is the poor man' s mint; and extravagance the rich man ' s pitfall.
Young ladies should learn to spend money carefully and avoid extravagance.
They seem to be giant physical manifestations of a kind of extravagance, or excessiveness, a breaking out of boundaries, form, and structure.
Lottery money has to be sought, not for luxuries or extravagances, but to maintain parks and public areas.
It would appear to be a sort of miracle that a man of sense, like Bouhours, should have committed such a mass of extravagance to the press, if we did not know to what excesses men can be carried by the corporate spirit in general, and the monachal spirit in particular. A Philosophical Dictionary
On the contrary, this bldg is purely a display of opulence, luxury and extravagance by someone who can afford. Perkins + Will’s Antilla “Green” Tower in Mumbai | Inhabitat
Until the very end he was famous for extravagances and spent millions on yachts, helicopters, planes and homes around the world, including an $11m apartment in New York whose furnishings are the source of his current tax problems.
A true love is what doesn't strive for busyness, for extravagance, for luxury, and moreover for hokum.
Peter Stringer has occasionally been charged with a lack of extravagance behind the scrum, but his antennae are never down.
Yesterday the Environment Agency advised against extravagance with ‘a precious resource’ but stressed there was no serious cause for concern.
They range from lovely, understated elegance and simplicity to wild extravagance.
The climax is reached on his discovery among the accounts, all giving proof of his wife's reckless extravagance, a billet-doux, pleading for a clandestine meeting in his own garden. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
It is not just a case of eliminating extravagance and waste, we have got to manage the budget and be even more efficient.
I do not regard books as extravagances.
To prevent extravagance in dress parish taxes were "cessed" according to apparel -- "if he be unmarried, according to his own apparel; if he be married, according to his own and his wife's or either of their apparel. England in America, 1580-1652
“Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland;” and as it bears testimony both to the reputation of the lady for wealth, and that of her husband for rakery and extravagance, it may be worth extracting: ” Life of Lord Byron
While always treating James with deference, Cecil urged him to curtail his extravagance and also to restrain his partiality for Scots advisers and companions.
I got bored with extravagance, the time wasting and delaying, the speeches that were so horrendously long… it was enough to make any real person want to sleep for an eternity.
She redeemed her extravagances by their consequences.
To _promote separation from the world_ and deadness to it, and so to increase heavenly-mindedness in children of God; at the same time warning against fanatical extremes and extravagances, such as sinless perfection while in the flesh. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God
For a prime minister who fought the election on improving public services, such increases look like thoughtless and tactless extravagance.
Yet whenever I get on my activist soapbox I am reminded by fellow childcare providers that ‘at least you get paid to stay at home with your baby,’ as if caring for my own child is some kind of grand extravagance.
Her biggest extravagance is clothes, which she buys largely second-hand. Times, Sunday Times
Smith refers to one of hedonistic King George's most legendary extravagances.
Mr. Pearson's income allows of no extravagance in his way of living.
I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.
It seems no extravagance is too great for the music world's biggest power couple when it comes to holidays. Times, Sunday Times
If you feel you can just walk on by then I hope you can live with your luxurious extravagances day after day while the world beneath us suffers.
It treads a delicate line between tasteful extravagance and over-the-top kitsch.
Economy is the poor man' s mint; and extravagance the rich man ' s pitfall.
Besides, the point of the original version's visual extravagance was not to show off; it was to contrast the grandeur of the characters' silly young dreams with the puniness of their old, educated bitterness.
We're saving for bunk beds, which will be our biggest extravagance of the year. The Sun
Despondence, which is manifested in the disordered and disrupted rim vestured by darkness, sets off and contradicts to the extravagance behind it.
Her savings has dwindled away over the years as the result of her extravagance.
And yet we men do not approve; nay, if we see a man sharing his goods with other men, we call it wastefulness, extravagance, and by such names, and dub the men to whom he gives a share, fawners and parasites.
Often, this extra spending is on luxuries and wasteful extravagances - small things that add up to thousands in the long run.
This extravagance is also very pronounced in the alchemistic works attributed to him; for example, the belief in the artificial creation of minute living creatures resembling men (called "homunculi") -- a belief of the utmost absurdity, if we are to understand it literally. Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.
He earns royalties from the commercials, but his biggest extravagance so far is to buy a saxophone. Times, Sunday Times
When you shear it of all its pomp and extravagance, when you whittle it down to the very basics of musical comedy plotting, Half a Sixpence should work like a lucky charm.
The heterogeneous triflings which now, I am very sorry to say, occupy so much of our time, will be neglected; fashion's votaries will silently fall off; dishonest exertions for rank in society will be scorned; extravagance in toilet will be detested; that meager and worthless pride of station will be forgotten; the honest earnings of dependents will be paid; popular demagogues crushed; impostors unpatronized; true genius sincerely encouraged; and, above all, pawned integrity redeemed! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
Lottery money has to be sought, not for luxuries or extravagances, but to maintain parks and public areas.
And as, once he adopted the nobiliary point of view which for him overshadowed everything else, M. de Charlus was capable of the most childish extravagances, he told me, in the same serious tone as if he were speaking of the Marne or of Verdun, that there were most interesting and curious things which should not be excluded by any historian of this war. Time Regained
I deeply resent the obvious and senseless waste of resources in having five public employees at court for a whole day, particularly as my council tax payments are funding this extravagance.
His extravagances are the horses they keep on a couple of acres in Surrey.
Wispy-bearded men prayed before the mihrab, an extravagance of inlaid, multicoloured stone.
The driver was not surprised at the extravagance involved, assuming he was a pressman. THE SCAR
Peter Stringer has occasionally been charged with a lack of extravagance behind the scrum, but his antennae are never down.
Mainly, these are harmless extravagances if the bank balance can cope.
Prosser appears the stereotypical Welshman - pinched face, thin-rimmed spectacles and no sign of extravagance.
Rapacity may stand behind extravagance to keep the supply inexhausted. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
There is (barring a possible double meaning or two) nothing of the kind generally known as licentious; it is the merely foul and dirty language of common folk at all times, introduced, not with humorous extravagance in the A History of Elizabethan Literature
The UN has long been criticised for its excessive bureaucracy; in normal times, it is a scandal and an extravagance - in time of emergency it is lethal.
Though Vivaldi had earned a great deal in his lifetime, his extravagance was such that he died in poverty.
regnant" to be altogether satisfactory; and there are many similar extravagances and inaccuracies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
We are constantly bombarded with the extravagances of our celebrities, Real Housewives, Teen CRIBS, and a slue of juvenile spoiled brats partying like it's 1999. The Relevance of Roseanne Today
He's always railing against his wife about her extravagance.
But in rock, lead guitar extravagance was crucial to the music and the supporting culture.
Economy the poor man’s mints; extravagance the rich man’s pitfall.
I have seen such as "February", for instance, in the Boston Museum, present for me the sensation of a man of great private spiritual and intellectual means, having the wish to express tactfully and convincingly his personal conclusions and reactions, leaning always toward the side of iridescent illusiveness rather than emotional blatancy and irrelevant extravagance. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
The big unknown for hotels and restaurants that had factored corporate extravagance into their plans is how much spending will be reined in.
But the appearance of financial cronyism, allied to the vexed issue of government extravagance on failing computer systems, does not sit well with the chancellor's austere image.
committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravagance
Leapor sees such a woman degrading herself as a miser: Then let her quit Extravagance and Play.
And all of this talk of extravagance ignores Abramovich's unparalleled fleet of yachts, some of which typically winter in the harbor not far from his oceanfront estate.
Young ladies should learn to spend money carefully and avoid extravagance.
So in all grades are there various matters of taste which become extravagance if rushed into by persons unbreeched for the occasion. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
We pass over the extravagances and gross depths to which bhakti, devotion or faith or love, may degenerate in the excitement of religious festivals -- _corruptio optimi pessimum_. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments
Impulsiveness, impatience, senseless rebellion, and extravagance are the traits that so often undermine their work and dreams.
She could not see the tenacious Forsyte spirit working in that thin, tremulous shape against the extravagance of the emotion called up by this outrage on Forsyte principles — the Forsyte spirit deep in there, saying: ‘You mustn’t get into a fantod, it’ll never do. In Chancery
What was your biggest extravagance? Times, Sunday Times
The extravagance of the court and the high cost of war absorbed all of France's resources and efforts to rationalize the tax system failed.
They are appalled by daily examples of bureaucratic waste and extravagance and the criminal abuse of their hard-earned taxes. The Sun
Economy the poor man’s mints; extravagance the rich man’s pitfall.
The extravagance comes in present-giving — and in one-off fun touches such as this rabbit moneybox. Times, Sunday Times
To burn best beeswax candles in an empty bedroom seems a wild extravagance. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
There's a cornucopia of concordances, colloquia and other such academic extravagances. Times, Sunday Times
A cookshop was his next point of call, where he feasted in extravagance and greasy luxury. Kim
If the universe hasn't lavished you with extravagance lately, use this week's Mercurian energy to add some major extensions to your wish list.
One of the many extravagances of the Constitution was to convert a large number of workers such as university lecturers, scientific researchers and other technical officers into civil servants.
On "Irish Bulls" [VERBATIM II, 1, 1] and the German bull, by an odd coincidence of assonance, the German word for this linguistic extravagance is Verbalhornen. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4
‘The problems of formalism, bureaucracy, dishonesty, extravagance and waste are relatively severe,’ he told the legislature session.
Granted, footballers do have the luxury of changing their cars more often than most, but that is probably their biggest extravagance. Times, Sunday Times
For the idiot who has everything comes the latest in unbridled extravagance: fashion house Christian Dior is set this month to launch of line of luxury cellphones costing a ridiculous amount of money. The $26,000 "My Dior" Cellphone - The Consumerist
Levity so unfeeling, and a spirit of extravagance so irreclaimable, were hopeless prognostics; yet Cecilia would not desist from her design. Cecilia
Having married her, as he openly avowed, for her fortune alone, he soon dissipated this, the solitary charm she possessed for him, and was then unmanful enough to taunt her with the inconveniences of that penury which his own extravagance had occasioned. Life of Lord Byron
The last thing she would want is the extravagance of a new floating palace. The Sun
There's an all too willing readiness to equate soul with slick studio trickery and note-perfect vocal acrobatics, as if the expense and extravagance of the production shows just how much they mean it; and this comes at a heavy price.
I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.
Arabic's a glorious language for poetic extravagance, and we made the most of it. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
In Elizabethan England, these laws attempted to restrict the sumptuousness of dress in order to curb extravagance, protect fortunes, and make clear the necessary and appropriate distinctions between levels of society.
Buying an island seems the pinnacle of ostentatious extravagance.
Beyond the inner hall door, out of sight, a fantasy-land smacked the eye with astounding colour, glitter and extravagance. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
Using an official dealer may seem an extravagance, but the diagnosis will be quicker and cheaper in the long run. Times, Sunday Times
A true love is what doesn't strive for busyness, for extravagance, for luxury, and moreover for hokum.
Sprinkled with star performances and exotic themes, celebrity weddings are outdoing each other on extravagance.
Economy the poor man's mints; extravagancethe rich man's pitfall.Martin Tupper. Americaneconomist.
Mr. Pearson's income allows of no extravagance in his way of living.
Unless I'm attacked by an irresistible urge to extravagance I don't buy flowers for the house any more.
It's a glimpse into the golden age of kings, a lost world of luxury, political scheming, extravagance and hedonism.
A few other clergymen denounced the ball, and soon, “threatening letters arrived by every post, debating societies discussed our extravagance, and last, but not least, [the Bradley Martins] were burlesqued unmercifully on the stage.” The Bradley-Martin Ball | Edwardian Promenade
Beyond that, shipbuilders must accommodate specific design requests that give mega-yachts their well-earned reputation for extravagance.
He owned with contrition that his irregularities and his extravagance had already wasted a large part of his mother's little fortune. Vanity Fair
Peanut hearts and safflower seeds are extravagances that many folks don't usually buy for themselves but would welcome as gifts.
Eating out with friends may seem like an extravagance in this summer of cuts, but it is also a great escape. Times, Sunday Times
I'm simply uncomfortable with unnecessary extravagance. Times, Sunday Times
We are going to end the culture of extravagance and waste, because New Zealanders have had enough.
Maybe that's why when we reach a certain age, we're supposed to confine such extravagances to birthdays, weddings and Christmas.
Perhaps the opensource software movement is actually a contemporary form of potlatch, in which one gains prestige by the extravagance of the resources one ‘wastes.’
Easter (in March or April) is the most important religious holiday and is highly revered by the Russian Orthodox Church with elaborate rituals and extravagance.
The extravagances of his palaces have also been given an airing.
An epergne," Evans said, smiling at the extravagance of it. Amid the jumble, the story of Britain's age of silver
People surround their houses with frilly plants and especially with lawns - an astonishingly costly national extravagance.
He can well afford extravagances and is expected to expand his art collection still further.
Many men lampooned her for her extravagance, but women, by contrast, envied her.
On the other hand, there are their counterparts of avarice, fraud, injustice, and selfishness, as displayed by the inordinate lovers of gain; and the vices of thriftlessness, extravagance, and improvidence, on the part of those who misuse and abuse the means entrusted to them.
For all its richness and extravagance, the hospital hotel lacked warmth.
Even so, it has left me with a sense of unease about waste, especially in this industry where extravagance is so normal.
People are traveling less, not spending money on extravagances and looking to be with their family all helps to support our business model.
What was your biggest extravagance? Times, Sunday Times
I always consider that the vulgar aims people pursuit vehemently - property, vainglory and extravagance - are despicable.
Economy the poor man’s mints; extravagance the rich man’s pitfall.
He's always railing against his wife about her extravagance.
There's nothing like recent impecuniousness to encourage extravagance and for some reason I headed west with a vague idea of Chelsea or Kensington - Chelsea particularly.
My biggest extravagance is plants. The Sun
Economy is the poor man' s mint; and extravagance the rich man ' s pitfall.
Economy is the poor man' s mint; and extravagance the rich man ' s pitfall.
The degree of excess and extravagance seemed over the top in even the most subdued tiki bar.
The probe found vast waste, extravagance, and hoarding.
But for all her thrifty protests, it seems the odd extravagance does slip through the net. The Sun
The extravagances of coxcombry in manners and apparel are indeed the legitimate and often the successful objects of satire, during the time when they exist. The Monastery
This is the harvest one reaps when one sows in extravagance and dissipation.
It's a glimpse into the golden age of kings, a lost world of luxury, political scheming, extravagance and hedonism.
It seems to flaunt a certain tatty extravagance, like worn plush furnishings in a cobwebby drawing room.
He is, to this day, associated with extravagance and regal lavishness.
Economy the poor man’s mints; extravagance the rich man’s pitfall.
We should mind little things - little courtesies in life, little matters of personal appearance, little extravagances, little minutes of wasted time, little details in our work.
Laureate, have found in the Peninsular struggle with Napoleon, the very perfection of popular grandeur; others, agreeing with ourselves, have seen in this pretended struggle nothing but the last extravagance of thrasonic and impotent national arrogance. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
She argued that Camp, a style marked by extravagance, epicene in character, expressed a new sensibility that would "dethrone the serious. A Very Public Intellectual
One of our neighbors, good old Deacon Winship, often animadverted upon the luxury and extravagance of the times.
Curtis sits in the director's chair for the first time and seems willing to commit to film his whole romantic scrapbook with sporting extravagance.
I also think we'll see more restaurants offering obvious value, perhaps less absurd extravagance. Times, Sunday Times
He lived a life of extravagance and lecherousness, and had engaged in all sorts of evil conduct.
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God is extravagant not parsimonious: in his extravagance, he created a home for us that will always contain an unexplored corner, however long he tarries. When Aslan sang « Anglican Samizdat
It's worth staying there to experience the sheer extravagance at first hand, or you could, of course, just ask the friendly reception staff for a quick peek.
A true love is what doesn't strive for busyness, for extravagance, for luxury, and moreover for hokum.
They crossed to the farther side of the river, where the influence of the Gothic monument threw a distinction even over the Parisian smartnesses -- the municipal rule and measure, the importunate symmetries, the "handsomeness" of everything, the extravagance of gaslight, the perpetual click on the neat bridges. The Tragic Muse
It is one of the most stunning buildings in the Clyde Valley and clearly belongs to a bygone age of sumptuous extravagance.
He called his iniquitous vices, follies -- his licentiousness, love of pleasure -- his unprincipled expenditure and extravagance, a want of the knowledge of what money was: and his worst sin of all, because the one least likely to be abandoned, his positive, unyielding damning selfishness, he called "fashion" -- the fashion of the young men of the day. The Kellys and the O'Kellys
the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes
But, unfortunately, he, more than any other writer of his day, has been signalled out for those uncostly extravagances of praise which are fast discrediting us in our own eyes, and are making what should be the art of criticism a mockery, and something of a shame. My Contemporaries In Fiction
My biggest extravagance is plants. The Sun
His wit was to him "as riches fineless"; he saw no end of his wealth in that way, and set no limits to his extravagance: he was communicative, prodigal, boundless, and inexhaustible. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution
Puritan settlers abided by English sumptuary laws that prohibited extravagance and regulated clothing styles according to trade, rank, and wealth.
He owned with contrition that his irregularities and his extravagance had already wasted a large part of his mother's little fortune. Vanity Fair
Frances, who expected Painter to say something scathing, was astonished to see him beam at this extravagance. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
They seem to be giant physical manifestations of a kind of extravagance, or excessiveness, a breaking out of boundaries, form, and structure.
She took off her apron and went upstairs from the basement to suggest the extravagance to Irena.
Stephen's bullying self-pity and edgy rationalism ran up sharply against Anny's fancifulness, extravagance and sentiment.
Godwin and Mill both wrote with Burkean extravagance about Hastings's disastrous effect on English national character.
He's always railing against his wife about her extravagance.
Mr. Pearson's income allows of no extravagance in his way of living.
We must combat extravagance and waste.
An eight-shilling meal stands out, among eightpenny teas, as a rare extravagance .... Anthony Lyveden
I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.
She could not see the tenacious Forsyte spirit working in that thin, tremulous shape against the extravagance of the emotion called up by this outrage on Forsyte principles -- the Forsyte spirit deep in there, saying: 'You mustn't get into a fantod, it'll never do. The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery
Granted, footballers do have the luxury of changing their cars more often than most, but that is probably their biggest extravagance. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Pearson's income allows of no extravagance in his way of living.
This is no doubt because of their wild extravagance in spring, when they force themselves into our attention. Times, Sunday Times
Covetise > Avarice (covetise = covetousness) 5 Through wasteful pride and wanton riotise, wasteful > causing ruin wanton riotise > wild extravagance, dissipation The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
A true love is what doesn't strive for busyness, for extravagance, for luxury, and moreover for hokum.
His only extravagance was fine wine.
I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.
I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.
It seems no extravagance is too great for the music world's biggest power couple when it comes to holidays. Times, Sunday Times
I'm simply uncomfortable with unnecessary extravagance. Times, Sunday Times
The current climate is tailor-made for a populist politician of the left to exploit, by railing against the extravagance, cupidity and even criminality of the money men.

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