How To Use Extravagant In A Sentence

When I ask if he spends money on anything really extravagant, he looks a bit uncertain. Times, Sunday Times
Its images tumble, proliferate and cross-hatch; they are extravagant and loopy and defiantly enormous in their ambition, making everything else look petty and piddling.
The idea that s. 8 protects an individuals’s privacy in garbage until the last unpaid bill rots into dust, or the incriminating letters turn into muck and are no longer decipherable, is to my mind too extravagant to contemplate. SCC: No Privacy Interest in Things We Throw Out : Law is Cool
It is in the early days of the rivalry that Hayes digs up the most interesting stories, such as when Cardiff's Burton scored with an extravagant scissors kick and was congratulated by players from both teams.
In 1805, an extremely handsome young man, he went up to Cambridge, where he attended intermittently to his studies between extravagant debauches there and in London.

Not since the days when a churl suffered extravagant penalties for offending a Norman lord have we seen such disparities of treatment within our justice system.
But, this notion of Matter seems too extravagant to deserve a confutation. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
But all these rather extravagant claims have had to be made via the old-fashioned printed page.
An extravagant collection of activities centered on the family shrine, as the sweet scent of incense hovered placidly above us.
It's a familiar and rather well-worn mechanic, but the sepia-toned graphical overlay is a stylish touch and the extravagant rag doll physics sends your victim rocketing through the air like a crazed acrobat, which is fun to behold and suitably reminiscent of a Peckinpah bloodbath. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
The history of western commentaries on ancient Mesoamerican objects is full of extravagant claims made on the basis of such meaningless formal convergences.
Many top players had enjoyed extravagant lifestyles and six-figure salaries.
Extravagant weddings, lavish dinner parties, luxurious luncheons, you name it and I attended it.
It is in the early days of the rivalry that Hayes digs up the most interesting stories, such as when Cardiff's Burton scored with an extravagant scissors kick and was congratulated by players from both teams.
What his biggest desire was to buy a ricksha , thinking that if had it he woude not bear anyone's anger. However, this legitimate aspiration became an extravagant hope at that times.
This relates to the extravagant spending also; if a public institution wants to be funded through taxpayer money, they must be accountable and transparent with how they spend it.
This extravagant praise, moreover, takes the form of far-fetched metaphors, antitheses, hyperboles, superlatives, elaborate syntax, etc.
As for the technique, they are “icebox cookies” from the Joy of Cooking cookbook, with Pillsbury vanilla frosting dyed in extravagant colors. Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Gloom Cookies
In spite of the hotel's extravagant overheating, she shivered. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
their praise was extravagant and insincere
Would it would be too extravagant to buy both?
She scandalized her family with her extravagant lifestyle.
It is the males that invest most effort into extravagant sexual display that experience this spermatogenic 'burn-out' at an earlier age," the researchers, led by biologist Brian Preston, wrote in this week's Ecology Letters journal - according to Wired, since I don't have a subscription. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
Citrus growers, dairymen, the grain-milling industry, pickle producers - almost anyone could and did make extravagant claims.
They regularly shower their friends with wildly extravagant gifts, kindnesses which Phillip and Alice could never hope to return or repay.
Extravagantly showy and ostentatious work is pretentious when the merit it demands is unjustified.
Cadoc slipped the doorman a golden bezant-a little extravagant, perhaps, but impressiveness might help his chances. The Boat of a Million Years
During the late nineties, as the economy boomed, the city went on an especially extravagant spending spree.
I am not making extravagant claims for immigration.
Set to Rossini's titular score, it chivvies and inspires its dancers to delicious extremes of virtuosity, extravagantly sustained poses, scintillating footwork and wicked speeds. This week's new dance
It doesn't stop him later that evening from capering madly around the stage, all jack-in-a-box bouncing and extravagant semaphore gestures.
Their extravagant lifestyle finally drew the attention of fraud investigators. Times, Sunday Times
The show does not boast the extravagant production values of many West End musicals.
At Trillium Health Centre's Maharani and Maharaja Gala, an extravagant evening featuring indoor fireworks and South Asian food and entertainment, an 85-year-old gori white woman named Hazel was belle of the ball. Local
More than 400 years after Italian composer Alessandro Striggio wrote his extravagant 40-part Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno, it has been rediscovered by a Berkeley music scholar who identified the work and rescued it from obscurity. For Choral Music aficionados
People will rightly want to see an explanation for these extravagant stays. The Sun
However, even when in debt, he continued to enjoy an extravagant lifestyle.
It was the most extravagant purchase I have ever made.
Even sitting at home, she's in an extravagant outfit of stockings, suspenders, basque, feather boa, everything.
I go to that restaurant for lunch if I'm feeling extravagant.
In the reaction against the monotony of formalism and of that deadly conventionalism which is the peril of every accepted method in religion, art, education, or politics, men are ready to welcome any revolt, however extravagant. Essays on Work and Culture
No need for extravagant gifts, but I can haul out the decorations and tree.
Was his extravagant creative production an apotropaic ritual that ultimately failed in its aim, or did the procession of his creature, so ferocious, but with a tinge of pathos to it, prove somehow overwhelming for him?
The gentleness of the old time was sweet to us both: but we had the wish that my father's extravagant prominency in it might be forgotten. The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete
Last summer his dad came back from a business trip to the Far East and presented his son with an extravagant gift. Times, Sunday Times
It was Charles Darwin who first noted that it is the choosy peahen who plays a crucial role in the evolution of this extravagant sexual display.
Such is Mr. Cecchini's cult status, doubtless assisted by Bill Buford's extravagant portrait of the Italian in his book "Heat," that it is a considerable task to enter his modest butcher shop, given the likelihood of having to jostle past German camera crews and crowds from Japan. Dishing on a Classic
So early as 1768 Benjamin Franklin had published his Scheme for a New Alphabet and a Reformed Mode of Spelling, with Remarks and Examples Concerning the Same, and an Enquiry into its Uses and induced a Philadelphia typefounder to cut type for it, but this scheme was too extravagant to be adopted anywhere, or to have any appreciable influence upon spelling. Chapter 8. American Spelling. 2. The Influence of Webster
He ran up stupendous debts through his extravagant lifestyle.
Not all public gestures of affection and loyalty need to be quite so extravagant.
The Met's house style was an extravagant pictorialism. Peter J Hall obituary
For miles and miles, above and around, great billowy masses, tossed and twisted into an infinity of fantastic shapes, arrest and weary the eye, lava in all its forms, from a compact phonolite, to the lightest pumice stone, the mere froth of the volcano, exceeding in wildness and confusion the most extravagant nightmare ever inflicted on man. The Hawaiian Archipelago
She cocoons the viewer in her extravagant exhibitionism.
An extravagant amount of baksheesh removed any doubts they may have had, nor would they be inclined to question the command of an effendi. LION IN THE VALLEY
Once she grouped these adults by the level of affection shown by the mother at that eight-month assessment, she found that the children whose mothers were ranked as "caressing" and "extravagant" had significantly lower levels of distress as adults. David Petrie: Why Fathers Should Show More Affection Toward Their Kids
In their more extravagant flights of fancy the choice thus offered to the voter is extended to cover specific heads of policy.
Connolly gave it a new lease of life by the extravagant method of pleating it - pleated, it took eight metres to achieve one metre of fabric.
However, the term baroque was also used by those that vilipended the film, as synonymous of extravagant, pretentious or pompous, thus perpetuating the ambiguous nature of the term.
The lush and extravagant countryside, the somnolent seriousness of the army base and the intense, heavy sunlight had been most disorienting.
He describes the extravagant body language, the noise, the excessive consumption of food and drink.
But NAF self-consciously did use the word "commons", indeed so extravagantly that it was repeated more than 200 times in this brief 21 page document, twice as many times, interestingly, as they used the word "military". The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
I then paid her the most extravagant compliments; her senseless chatting I described as unrestraint tempered by finesse, her pretentious exaggerations as a natural desire to please; was it her fault that she was poor? The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete
They were both in that degree of intoxication necessary to prepare such dispositions for what they commonly call frolics, and the sober part of mankind feel to be extravagant outrages against the laws of their country, and the peace of their fellow-subjects. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Our natural anticipations deceive us -- I say _natural_ in contra-distinction to extravagant expectations. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
The dancers are costumed in extravagant gowns that they never remove: the show conveys a hint of the risqué but not more.
The walls of the ground-floor sitting room are no less extravagant in their decoration. Times, Sunday Times
The bedroom reflects Dalí's most extravagant tendencies, as illustrated by the imposing imperial style of the beds.
Much of it is a good read, although some of the writing is florid and the metaphors extravagant.
Many parish churches were extravagantly rebuilt, and lavished with vessels and ornaments which foreign visitors thought worthy of a cathedral.
I doubt I have ever read a novel with so many extravagantly nonsensical similes and rococo metaphors.
Most women she knew would've been thrilled to receive such an extravagant gift, yet she found she couldn't care less about it, just an excuse to show off how much money he had.
He made extravagant claims of evidence that revealed hundreds of known communists in government, the media and the film industry.
This man, crible de dettes, as he told me, and daily compelled to adopt the most extravagant methods for a bare subsistence, had repeatedly approached me with adventurous schemes for the exploitation of my notorious fiasco. My Life — Volume 2
He crossbred visual panache and hedonistic flair, notably in "Sign of the Cross" (1932), with a lesbian dance sequence, a lithe Claudette Colbert bathing in milk, and Charles Laughton playing an extravagantly gay Nero. Review of "Empire of Dreams," Scott Eyman's biography of Cecil B. DeMille
They combined apricots, raisins and almonds in meat dishes, which were extravagantly embellished with cream and thin sheets or beaten gold and silver foil.
They all made extravagant claims for the supernatural. Christianity Today
Would it would be too extravagant to buy both?
Often extravagantly expensive, they are about the size of a hockey puck and just as dense.
Granada, in the heart of their great conquest; and it is a most beautiful church, of a mingled Saracenic plateresque Gothic, as the guide-books remind me, and extravagantly baroque as I myself found it. Familiar Spanish Travels
The antinomic procedure was extravagantly devel - oped by Fichte and Hegel, Hegel complaining that ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON
And a few lines further on he specifies Christianity as the most extravagant elaboration of the moral theme that humanity has ever heard.
The women of his day were no doubt obstreperous and extravagant, and hence his famous but perfectly ineffectual teaching that they should not "broider their hair, or wear gold or silver or costly array," and that they shouldn't talk in meeting, and if they wanted to know anything, ask their husbands, and drink of their intellectual superiority. Fair to Look Upon
Yet even with the arrival in the city of outsiders such as Donatello, Raphael and Signorelli, Trecento mysticism lingered well into the 16th century in the strange, boneless figures, extravagant gestures and intense colours of Domenico Beccafumi. Archive 2007-10-01
- a little extravagant, exaggerated perhaps, as you must have noticed, signora. MURKY SHALLOWS
We can deduce from the picture that its aim is to criticize the spreading extravagant behavior among students, especially college students.
The extravagant plumage of peacocks contrasts with the drabness of peahens.
In the parable, the younger son of a wealthy family requests his inheritance in advance and leaves home to go to the city, where he leads an extravagant and debauched life, and spends every cent.
Of late an act of Parliament has passed declaratory of their full right to one as well as the other, in matter of libel; and the bill having been brought in by a popular gentleman, many of his party have in most extravagant terms declaimed on the wonderful acquisition to the liberty of the press. Life of Johnson
A troubled housing board in Bradford has suffered its third resignation with complaints being made about outstanding repairs and extravagant spending.
Their weakness, if any, is that they fall easy prey to brand names and they would willingly go to any lengths just to be showy, extravagant and ostentatious.
But sanctions have not curbed the extravagant tastes of some within the ruling elite. Times, Sunday Times
As a tribute to his parents, Houdini commissioned his friend Oscar Teale to design an extravagant exedra that used many tons of Vermont granite. The Secret Life of Houdini
Rich merchants erected extravagant public buildings and temples and tombs, living and dying in sumptuous style.
Many of his tracts are still extant, and they contain extravagant prophecies couched in the peculiar phraseology of the day. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
High Renaissance Italian Gardens were the domestic villas but extravagant and designed exclusively for pleasure.
Service is kind and the extravagant decor of ethnic artefacts makes a perfect setting for romance. Times, Sunday Times
Extravagantly costumed masquerade troupes shimmied down the streets as trucks with speakers piled high blasted out calypso and soul.
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Or have you gone through that most ingenious contexture of truth and lies, of serious and extravagant, of knights-errant, magicians, and all that various matter which he announces in the beginning of his poem: Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
My classmates were as unastonished by their extravagant traits as a blowfish is by its quills. Middlesex
Although the parties lived an extravagant lifestyle, their debt obligations were met.
Experts say there is no published scientific evidence to support the extravagant claims. Times, Sunday Times
Bridging the gap between orchestra and audience, he soon had his public eating out of his hand - rather than their extravagant picnic hampers.
The most extravagant resort on the continent, it enticed the rich, divided the residuum, and attracted the world's greatest golfers.
In the capital, massive construction work began on palaces, an imperial temple and his extravagant tomb nearby. Times, Sunday Times
Postwar politics made extravagant claims for its own power, and unsurprisingly failed to deliver.
The trend for extravagant weddings is expected to continue in the years to come.
Many provincial nomarchs built extravagant temples, trying to connect their power to the pharaoh.
Not so long ago it was fashionable for extravagant whiskers to adorn all red-blooded males. The Sun
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
In his youth he was an extravagant epicurean.
The ‘show’ was more illuminating than the most extravagant fireworks display; a pageant of craftsmanship and beauty.
Extravagant designs that look theatrical, dramatic and poetic are given heavy emphasis.
Only a five-star general like Raines could have commanded such extravagant coverage as this.
Nebbou wisely lets the story and performances speak for themselves, confining his personal flourishes mainly to an extravagant "orientalist" ball that Dumas stages at his chateau. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
Her Aunt Sallie gave her an uncharacteristically extravagant gift.
When I ask if he spends money on anything really extravagant, he looks a bit uncertain. Times, Sunday Times
There's a lively accent on finance; but don't be too extravagant.
Several processions have been staged, featuring extravagant floats with celebrities and scantily dressed bejeweled dancers from several competing samba schools. Haiti, Brazil Hold Carnival Celebrations
Surely he's tempted by something extravagant. Times, Sunday Times
During the time of the siege, the young Moorish and Spanish cavaliers vied with each other in extravagant bravadoes. The Alhambra
So far, the Home Secretary has been exemplary, grabbing no emergency powers and making no extravagant claims for ID cards.
Extravagant spending soon depleted her funds.
An extravagant signal could be a general statement of a male's ability to cope.
They built extravagant houses, opened grandiose museums and spent not just one, but several, fortunes on art.
Women with 'crimped' hair indulge in extravagantly elaborate 'affairs'. The complicated story of Rielle Hunter and Jonathan Darman, the Newsweek reporter.
The walls of the ground-floor sitting room are no less extravagant in their decoration. Times, Sunday Times
What, in particular, was the diet of national leaders who introduced sumptuary laws, to prevent extravagant expenditure on food and wine?
Once a young, brash president of a growing corporation was being dangerously extravagant. Christianity Today
We owe it to our children and our children's children and to those in developing countries disadvantaged today by our profligate and extravagant Western lifestyles to be more environmentally responsible.
I'd gathered Santa Fe was an extravagant, wide-open community, but even I was astonished at the amounts I saw change hands that night; the gamblers of Santa Fe, whether they were drunk traders, flash greasers, desperate immigrants, cold-eyed swells with pistols prominently displayed in their waistbands, or even the couple of tonsured priests who had an apparently bottomless satchel of coin and crossed themselves before every cast of the dice, were evidently no pikers. Isabelle
The Secretary of State made more extravagant claims for the Bill than its content would justify.
Coryate wrote in an extravagant and euphuistic style (‘He is a great and bold carpenter of words’, said Jonson), and was well known as an eccentric and amusing character; there are many references to him in 17th-cent. literature.
A lot of extravagantly upholstered chairs and sofas are ranged around a coffee table. Times, Sunday Times
There was one other man there, dressed in fine clothes and wearing a maroon hat with an extravagant plume of feathers on the side.
In painting, a capriccio is an architectural fantasy that combines various buildings, ruins, or landscape elements into an extravagant juxtaposition. Capriccio in Art
The firm is big on extravagant promotion drives.
Headdresses were extravagantly plumed helmets or crowns fusing baroque and classical styles, and the masquers were shod in tightly fitting short boots, or buskins.
The ceremonies of initiation in the Adonia began with lamentation for his loss, -- or, as the prophet Ezekiel expresses it, "Behold, there sat women weeping for Thammuz," -- for such was the name under which his worship was introduced among the Jews; and they ended with the most extravagant demonstrations of joy at the representation of his return to life, [23] while the hierophant exclaimed, in a congratulatory strain, -- The Symbolism of Freemasonry
It is infinitely superior either to the round or edgebone, and certainly not so extravagant as the last-named joint. Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it
Trump -- and his sidekick, the extravagant comb-over -- are actually perfect for the job. Adam Hanft: Donald Trump -- the Perfect Moderator for America's Depressing Comb-over Politics
I go to that restaurant for lunch if I'm feeling extravagant.
The extravagant mansions built on the island of Syros reflect the wealth of these early magnates.
The sort of person given to staging extravagant parabolical dramas or writing out involute private imaginings is usually at a bit of a loss among artisans of more practical fantasies; or, often enough, their victim. Genet's Last Stand
Catholic countries like Spain make the most of the holy season (semana santa) with torchlit processions and extravagant religious ceremonies.
Tossing in elements of blues, rock, glam-rock, soul and metal, it's a wildly extravagant affair that is likely to put off as many people as it delights.
So extravagant, she buys her sons ponies, cars and throws parties that make them the envy of their friends.
She wore a dress of silver tissue and a stomacher covering the whole centre part of her bodice, set with a number of very large diamonds, worth quite extravagant sums according to the Duchess of Northumberland.
Gene Vincent's was greasy, James Brown's extravagantly pompadoured, Elvis's as carefully coiffed as the 18th green at Augusta.
By making an extravagant promise about a highly uncertain year ahead, he gave another. Times, Sunday Times
He paused often to consider what he was being told, teased the young woman who was interpreting in sign language for the deaf children, and smiled extravagantly throughout.
Only the common people, who benefited from his extravagant spending, lamented his death.
Reading his extravagantly received 1994 book, "The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991," the celebrated Kremlinologist Robert Conquest concluded that Mr. Hobsbawm suffers from a "massive reality denial" regarding the Soviet Union. How a True Believer Keeps the Faith
- a little extravagant, exaggerated perhaps, as you must have noticed, signora. MURKY SHALLOWS
The match was a perplexing mixture of extravagant strokes and elementary errors. Times, Sunday Times
In the 1840's the term Gent was most particularly applied to the young middle-class idler who aped his superiors and dressed extravagantly; the Mooner was rather older and spent his time "mooning" at shop windows and ambling gently about the town. Royal Flash
We went for a weekend, which on the face of it sounds like an extravagant waste of time, but was actually painlessly good fun.
When it comes to love, God is the great prodigal - extravagant, a spendthrift, and oblivious to cost.
She looked as imperious and haughty as ever; her graying blue-silver hair swept up into an intricate coif, the elaborate detail of its design matching even her extravagant evening gown.
An extravagant signal could be a general statement of a male's ability to cope.
The lavish wedding celebrations of the period were marked by extravagant gifts, such as maiolica decorated with narratives or portraits; rare Venetian glassware; rings (including one of the earliest known diamond wedding rings) and other jewelry; delicate gilded boxes; and vividly painted cassoni, or bridal chests, which would be filled with costly linens and clothing. Undefined
In the course of his account of the sojourn at Marienbad, this writer speaks of Chopin's polichinades: "He imitated then this or that famous artist, the playing of certain pupils or compatriots, belabouring the keyboard with extravagant gestures, a wild [echevele] and romantic manner, which he called aller a la chasse aux pigeons."] Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
However, this example is uniquely supported by an extravagant base of gilt and ormolu based on antique Roman design.
It confirms what the bizarrerie of Eight Legs itself implies, that Freud's extravagant realism is at root a near cousin to Surrealism. The Way to All Flesh
This in spite of his Nobel colleague Steven Weinberg's extravagant claim that physics can act as a moral and cultural force!
It's not as though I don't make a comfortable living, because I do, but I have rather extravagant tastes.
He has staked out his claim for being a great critic through portentousness, pomposity, and extravagant pretension, and, from all appearances, seems to have achieved it.
They are referring to the extravagant lifestyle associated with former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who was synonymous with flashiness and cutting corners. News
Only the common people, who benefited from his extravagant spending, lamented his death.
By supercar standards, though, it is not extravagantly priced for a beautifully engineered machine.
Everything from the modest sparrow to the extravagant scarlet macaw came to perch and settle around her.
Few performers have the ability to switch between melancholic hip thrusts and extravagant krumping.
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
Extravagant, self-indulgent and impulsive, the teenage King led a very glamorous, lavish lifestyle.
This design could not long escape the penetration of the Gothic king, who continued to hold a doubtful, and perhaps a treacherous, correspondence with the rival courts; who protracted, like a dissatisfied mercenary, his languid operations in Thessaly and Epirus, and who soon returned to claim the extravagant reward of his ineffectual services. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
A Philadelphia customer admired the company's cut glass but hesitated to buy any because it was ‘most extravagantly dear.’
Don't be so extravagant, spend your money more carefully.
The whole composition exudes a bold, reckless and extravagant self-confidence.
I had been appointed ex-officio by the British Consul to take charge of her after a man who had died suddenly, leaving for the guidance of his successor some suspiciously unreceipted bills, a few dry-dock estimates hinting at bribery, and a quantity of vouchers for three years 'extravagant expenditure; all these mixed up together in a dusty old violin-case lined with ruby velvet. Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow
They're not extravagant or lavish, really, but he runs into the kitchen and stands on my feet every time he hears me open the cupboard.
Yes, this is a faux period piece, with extravagant costumes and peachy Technicolor colours from bygone movies.
I nearly bought a big black 29 inch (100Hz, Digital, surround sound, Nicam rah rah rah) beast today but it was $3600 and I decided that that is a tad extravagant. Phelicity Diary Entry
The show was always shot on location, and had a hip look combining current fashion trends and New York hotspots with extravagant production values.
The deaths of the powerful elicit extravagant claims, and many of the tributes to the man being buried in Rome today have been little short of grotesque.
Moments later an ancient Rolls-Royce pulls up front and a bride dressed in a extravagantly decorated Shinto wedding dress climbs out and steps slowly through the lobby, carefully balanced on her wooden zori. Made Better in Japan
We are not extravagant; restaurant meals are a luxury and designer clothes are out.
He is unassuming and quietly controlled, anything but flashy or extravagant.
The film's reception at the time was overshadowed by its extravagant cost (50 times the average French budget), but Les Amants du Pont-Neuf is rhapsodic cinema at any price.
The lack of ornamentally extravagant surroundings coupled with the fair pay practices would be the reason The People's Health Insurance Company would be able to offer everyone and anyone who is a citizen of the US or is even visiting the US any medical care necessary. The People's Health Insurance Company
How about one with an extravagant winged fur collar, worn over a ballgown? Times, Sunday Times
South could have survived by ruffing with dummy's spade six and running the spade jack, but he extravagantly ruffed with dummy's jack, then played a spade to his queen.
The most extravagant gift you could give a friend is some type of heavy gardening equipment.
But there was no doubting his gifts were extravagant. Times, Sunday Times
I also did not feel any remorse at the extravagant spending of the evening.
They hobble out of their limousines, bowing in all their pristine, extravagant absurdity.
Normally, you get an extravagant amount of praise relative to your effect on the result. Times, Sunday Times
Italian and German armorers produced both subtly decorated but functional-seeming garnitures and extravagant show pieces, contrasting high and low relief, delicate incising, gilding, and inlaying, with smoothly modulated steel, originally blackened for drama, as we learn from the portraits. Armor as Wearable Sculpture
Writing in the second century AD, the biographer Suetonius employed the word luxuria to characterize the degenerate behavior of Emperor Nero, whose habits he said included traveling with a thousand carriages pulled by mules shod with silver, and entertaining in his wildly extravagant palace, which he had overlaid with gold and fitted with pipes to spray perfume on his guests. The English Is Coming!
I still cannot quite believe that this cowering timorous country of ours has produced such an extravagant masterpiece, and it has achieved something that not many modern buildings do - it has won the affection of those who use it.
They clustered at the doorway as an extravagantly dressed woman wearing slippers stepped down from the cab. Times, Sunday Times

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