Much of it is a good read, although some of the writing is florid and the metaphors extravagant. |
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The reality is that they have misspent the profits from our boom and are too long in power to even see the extent of their extravagant waste. |
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Few performers have the ability to switch between melancholic hip thrusts and extravagant krumping. |
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Rich merchants erected extravagant public buildings and temples and tombs, living and dying in sumptuous style. |
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There was one other man there, dressed in fine clothes and wearing a maroon hat with an extravagant plume of feathers on the side. |
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Only a five-star general like Raines could have commanded such extravagant coverage as this. |
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It was only once the war began and Britain joined in that an extravagant pan-German annexationist program materialized. |
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It was a mixture of curvy furniture and extravagant materials, including lapis lazuli, ivory, amazonite, ebony, horn, and rose quartz. |
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He is unassuming and quietly controlled, anything but flashy or extravagant. |
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The show does not boast the extravagant production values of many West End musicals. |
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In came moral obligation bonds, in came lenient judges and cops, in came the most extravagant state government in the nation. |
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Even sitting at home, she's in an extravagant outfit of stockings, suspenders, basque, feather boa, everything. |
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We're not going to do anything extravagant or anything that's out of the ordinary. |
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The whole composition exudes a bold, reckless and extravagant self-confidence. |
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Sun-baked window displays were decked out with extravagant fairy lights and overblown decorations. |
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With no expense spared, the 10,000 white flowers, 45 chefs and beaucoup caviar were merely icing on the extravagant cake. |
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We parked the car and ate an extravagant lunch in a building whimsically reminiscent of an old Spanish church. |
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What legends, what quaint stories, what seemingly extravagant romances, its ivied stones, had they but tongues, could tell! |
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Like most of the others, he wore extravagant clothes made from the finest eastern silks and fabrics. |
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The body and dress of King Henry VIII of England served as icons of masculinity and power, his extravagant codpieces denoting his virility. |
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The lush and extravagant countryside, the somnolent seriousness of the army base and the intense, heavy sunlight had been most disorienting. |
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There are accusations of selling off the family jewels to pay for extravagant building projects. |
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The mistresses lead easy and extravagant lives by local standards, passing the time between trysts by playing mah-jong, eating out and shopping. |
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The Greens specialise in hype hyperbole, to give it its full name, extravagant and exaggerated comments. |
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The extravagant plumage of peacocks contrasts with the drabness of peahens. |
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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. |
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It's not as though I don't make a comfortable living, because I do, but I have rather extravagant tastes. |
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People said it was a waste of money, that it was too extravagant for its own good, and that the construction project was incompetently managed. |
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It is an elaborate, extravagant and bloated undertaking that not only throws in the kitchen sink but the fire extinguisher, too. |
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These pictures were extravagant in size, being four foot by four foot in dimension. |
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The kite kits they sell have become more extravagant, too, with jar-shaped kites, crab and box kites now on offer. |
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Everything from the modest sparrow to the extravagant scarlet macaw came to perch and settle around her. |
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So too in music we find relentlessly dreary conductors paid extravagant amounts for performances which are dull as dishwater. |
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It wasn't the world's most extravagant theatre complex, but it had this sort of historical vibe about it. |
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Mr. Donovan, though he never refused Mr. Wigan's hospitality, balanced the account by vilipending his friend's extravagant habits. |
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Yes, this is a faux period piece, with extravagant costumes and peachy Technicolor colours from bygone movies. |
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If this issue was as important to him as his extravagant language had suggested, he'd go to a double dissolution. |
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During the late nineties, as the economy boomed, the city went on an especially extravagant spending spree. |
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Many programmers have yanked their exhibitions after years of extravagant spending to woo operators. |
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Profits were increasing, and newspapers were full of stories about the extravagant spending of the wealthy. |
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I'm much more certain about the Chancellor's latest wheeze for grabbing more money to fund his extravagant spending plans. |
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I also did not feel any remorse at the extravagant spending of the evening. |
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Creative outreach and youth programming is more a matter of creativity than extravagant spending. |
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So extravagant, she buys her sons ponies, cars and throws parties that make them the envy of their friends. |
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Your wealth will increase manifold but try not to give in to extravagant and impulsive buys. |
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Clothes, diapers, bottles and every accessory both useful and extravagant, were bought. |
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Then others, too, can be so nourished, receiving that extravagant gift that is both utterly free and costs not less than everything. |
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The two tiny bundles that arrived unexpectedly on Debbie Badger's 34th birthday were more precious than the most extravagant gift. |
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And neither family would have the money to buy SUV's, extravagant birthday parties and cable television. |
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The most extravagant gift you could give a friend is some type of heavy gardening equipment. |
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What's the most extravagant thing you've bought yourself since you started acting? |
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While you prove to be great at managing your home, you give in to some extravagant buys. |
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This determination led to more gifts that were increasingly extravagant, and poems being left in more public and prominent places. |
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She was extremely generous in the extravagant presents she bought for them. |
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No need for extravagant gifts, but I can haul out the decorations and tree. |
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They regularly shower their friends with wildly extravagant gifts, kindnesses which Phillip and Alice could never hope to return or repay. |
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That inquiry was sparked by reports in the Los Angeles Times about Munitz's alleged extravagant travel and spending. |
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But you can understand that I cannot accept such an extravagant and thoughtful gift. |
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Of course these grown-up versions, which make extravagant claims on their elegant packaging, cost twice as much as the baby ones. |
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So far, the Home Secretary has been exemplary, grabbing no emergency powers and making no extravagant claims for ID cards. |
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You won't be believed but your extravagant claims might be passed around the office to lighten the dark winter months. |
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This in spite of his Nobel colleague Steven Weinberg's extravagant claim that physics can act as a moral and cultural force! |
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He made extravagant claims of evidence that revealed hundreds of known communists in government, the media and the film industry. |
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Rudd's extravagant claim was made in the uncomplicated environs of home turf but was equally ill-advised. |
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Journalists with little understanding of science are easily persuaded by extravagant claims made by a charismatic researcher and his supporters. |
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However, the continuing rows between the USA and Europe over the court's jurisdiction call these extravagant claims into question. |
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But the Prime Minister was immediately rounded on for making extravagant claims and for misusing statistics. |
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Consumer watchdogs in York have warned residents to steer clear of emails making extravagant claims about unrealistic earnings. |
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If he does, Horne, who eschews unrealistic targets and makes no extravagant claims, will return home a contented man. |
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The room was as extravagant and stuffed with furniture as the hall had been stark and bare. |
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He describes the extravagant body language, the noise, the excessive consumption of food and drink. |
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However, this example is uniquely supported by an extravagant base of gilt and ormolu based on antique Roman design. |
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What, in particular, was the diet of national leaders who introduced sumptuary laws, to prevent extravagant expenditure on food and wine? |
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Ritual, extravagant traditional symbolism of rank and office, and elaborate sumptuary legislation soon appeared. |
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The standard stone could be graced with a small LCD TV while a more extravagant mausoleum might be equipped with a high-definition plasma screen. |
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But to other philosophers and mathematicians Platonism seems extravagant, for reasons that are at least partly epistemological. |
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Even at his most extravagant, Rachmaninov demands an underlying introspectiveness. |
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Last night I did what you will doubtless term very foolhardy extravagant and unwise. |
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They built extravagant houses, opened grandiose museums and spent not just one, but several, fortunes on art. |
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That is not an argument for a return to the bad not-so-old days of extravagant dot-bomb spending. |
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The film's reception at the time was overshadowed by its extravagant cost, but Les Amants du Pont-Neuf is rhapsodic cinema at any price. |
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The extravagant lifestyle and licentious ways of some of them became the subject matter of book and films. |
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Many top players had enjoyed extravagant lifestyles and six-figure salaries. |
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This extravagant praise, moreover, takes the form of far-fetched metaphors, antitheses, hyperboles, superlatives, elaborate syntax, etc. |
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The Mile High city hosts one of the most extravagant holiday light shows in the Rockies. |
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These remains document an extravagant ritualism and outspoken insistence on the nobles' political dignity. |
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These are people who are famous for being famous, ciphers for our fantasies, cartoon characters with extravagant lives. |
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You can be very extravagant in both your affections and your finances, finding it difficult to manage both. |
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Now Collins defines the word as grossly offensive, violent or unrestrained behaviour, or extravagant or immoderate. |
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Caudwell throws up his hands in despair at the extravagant profusion of theories. |
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Many provincial nomarchs built extravagant temples, trying to connect their power to the pharaoh. |
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Why Watson bulked out his modest little story to such extravagant length, alas, we shall never know. |
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They hobble out of their limousines, bowing in all their pristine, extravagant absurdity. |
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We went for a weekend, which on the face of it sounds like an extravagant waste of time, but was actually painlessly good fun. |
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Thanks to solar panels that soak up energy during the day to power the wheel, those extravagant light shows have a minuscule carbon footprint. |
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As long as there are weddings there will always be a market for extravagant and lavish creations. |
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It too was heaped with candied fruits, nuts, crystallized edible flowers, and, in the topmost cup, a preserved orange, then an extravagant treat. |
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The plush red-velvet setting is just right for an evening that has an extravagant peacock gaudiness but no discernible heart or brain. |
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Not all public gestures of affection and loyalty need to be quite so extravagant. |
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The next afternoon, my father was sipping gimlets and preparing an extravagant meal for the four of us to share around the glass dining table. |
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The Venetian comedy also includes a pair of social parasites living off the prodigality of the extravagant young couple. |
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She receives many extravagant and special gifts to help her raise her child. |
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The city was all-atwitter with extravagant preparations that included dinners, balls, and tableaux vivants based on the characters of his novels. |
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The trend for extravagant weddings is expected to continue in the years to come. |
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They wear long petticoated gowns with shawls, along with extravagant headdresses. |
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Dior's extravagant creations swept them off their feet, and transported them to a sublimely flattering existence. |
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It has long been a minefield of a subject, with extravagant claims for its importance being a recurring feature. |
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Only the common people, who benefited from his extravagant spending, lamented his death. |
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The extravagant mansions built on the island of Syros reflect the wealth of these early magnates. |
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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. |
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He regularly boasts about his wealth and extravagant lifestyle, symbolized by his ten-gallon hat and limousine. |
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It was an inappropriate appointment, in that it was clearly a dismal waste of his extravagant talents. |
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Although the parties lived an extravagant lifestyle, their debt obligations were met. |
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What a message to us, with our extravagant, self-indulgent, hedonistic Western lifestyles. |
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As a consequence, American journalism makes extravagant gestures of self-justification. |
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In contrast to white people's extravagant ways, Indian wigwams are of high quality, comfortable, and very cheap to build and maintain. |
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It doesn't stop him later that evening from capering madly around the stage, all jack-in-a-box bouncing and extravagant semaphore gestures. |
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Instead, he's donning a frail redingote that drifts like an extravagant bridal tress. |
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So I think it advisable that the media scale back the intensity and magnitude of its coverage of extravagant lifestyles that some rich urbanites have the privilege to enjoy. |
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The openings have gone from simplistic to extravagant, featuring funny monologues, dance numbers, and lots of celebrities. |
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Many of the qualities like the extravagant detailing, lush colours and fine handwork are demonstrated in the exquisitely crafted shades of the era. |
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Blocks of ice were brought in and carved into a buffet table, from which an extravagant array of shellfish was served. |
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However, being a pet lover does not mean you have to be extravagant. |
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Even by American standards, it was a moment of extravagant uneasiness, disillusionment, and mania. |
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After 11 years at the e-commerce brand, CEO Mark Sebba got an extravagant global-wide send off as he plans to retire. |
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Overall, it was a somewhat average show, bolstered by plenty of eye candy in the form of an elaborate set and extravagant lighting and special effects. |
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The hand-carved and gilded wooden models, which fill the room, give expression to extravagant architectural dreams that could never have been built. |
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Even without the extravagant claims as to its radicalness, this book is solid scholarship and is well worth reading by South Asianists and environmental historians alike. |
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At first glance, it might be tempting to interpret this extravagant level of compensation as a victory for the once-humble intern. |
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He holds it out in his hand to me as if he is offering the balm of Gilead or all the riches of Babylon or something precious and extravagant like that. |
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Guest after guest has given me one extravagant gift after the other. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The history of western commentaries on ancient Mesoamerican objects is full of extravagant claims made on the basis of such meaningless formal convergences. |
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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. |
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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. |
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And it takes an extended, leisurely engagement to pull off an extravagant wedding, Badgett pointed out. |
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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. |
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The famed Brooklyn amusement park is a recurring motif in these paintings that feature carousel horses, Ferris wheels, fireworks, rockets and extravagant fantasy architecture. |
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The extravagant rhetoric of the original Futurist manifesto in 1909 set the tone of a movement in which the method, like the message, was to be uncompromising. |
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Hicks and Gillett discovered they could not compete with that kind of extravagant largesse. |
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It was customary to donate silver to the college in these circumstances, and his unnecessarily extravagant gift was a monteith weighing no less than 46 oz 10 dwt. |
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Buoyant and watchable stuff, though I've now got to confess to a slight, sinking sense of disappointment with this trilogy, for which such extravagant claims have been made. |
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In February 1745, an invitation to an extravagant masked ball celebrating the Dauphin's marriage to the Spanish Infanta was duly sent to Madame d' Etioles. |
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If you think hip hop culture is the only thing making teenagers present themselves in a sexual manner or for making them highly extravagant, then you're very unintelligent. |
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Skim a synopsis of a Roth satire and you might think him only riotous, ludicrous and extravagant. |
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A large part of this overshoot is due to the extravagant use of fossil fuels, whose carbon waste would require a vast bio-productive surface area as a natural sink. |
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But its extravagant sorrows and symphonic self-seriousness soon palled. |
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Like Pale Fire, Lolita begins with an immoderate conceit that allows its author and reader to explore the extravagant, pleasurable, and disturbing fringes of the language. |
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Birch trees grow in extravagant excess, juniper bushes cover the floor and a rich, luxuriant undergrowth of heather, blaeberry and moss gives an impression of timelessness. |
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The show was always shot on location, and had a hip look combining current fashion trends and New York hotspots with extravagant production values. |
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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. |
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Then, as if succumbing to the charms of its nectar, the novel becomes more extravagant as it progresses. |
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In general, be wary of slickly marketed software programs that make extravagant claims, whether they be to rid your computer of viruses or fix slow performance. |
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When they barely had power for lighting it seemed an extravagant waste. |
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Antelopes are well represented here, particularly the sable antelope which shows off their extravagant horns as they proudly march between stands of miombo woodland trees. |
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In the period before political independence, Francophone prose was typically elevated, extravagant, mythopoeic, and laced with surreal fantasy or utopian symbolism. |
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It has a small selection of women's shoes and belts and a wide choice of designer duds, from simple Armani all the way up to extravagant Versace gowns. |
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There was an exuberance or prodigality of sweetness about the mere act of living which our race finds it difficult not to associate with forbidden and extravagant actions. |
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While it will welcome the slower pace of growth in mortgage lending, it is concerned that individuals are borrowing for day-to-day spending for extravagant lifestyles. |
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A troubled housing board in Bradford has suffered its third resignation with complaints being made about outstanding repairs and extravagant spending. |
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She got a taste of the Hollywood lifestyle immediately after their wedding, when he whisked her away to the Big Apple for an extravagant spending spree. |
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After more than a year of extravagant online spending, scores of advertisers who've used the metrics are looking over the results and wondering what went wrong. |
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Expect rhinestone realness from pop's current queen of all things shiny, girly, and extravagant. |
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Additionally, Antony adopted a lifestyle considered too extravagant and Hellenistic for a Roman statesman. |
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Larks are small terrestrial birds with often extravagant songs and display flights. |
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Columbus's letter on the first voyage to the royal court in Madrid was extravagant. |
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A rich Dutch mealtime of the time contained many extravagant dishes and drinks. |
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The name may conjure up images of a pouting, raven-haired songstress with a penchant for extravagant shopping, but you'd be wrong. |
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Nevertheless, in their correspondence the older man's devotion was couched in extravagant terms. |
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After their record deal with EMI, Pink Floyd purchased a Ford Transit van, then considered extravagant band transportation. |
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Snake fences were extravagant in land and in wood, but wood and land were cheaper in Canada in early days than were nails and hinges. |
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But they were not reticent enough to prevent the circulation of certain uneasy rumours and extravagant stories of discreditable adventures. |
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These passages are almost always swollen with interpolated particulars, usually of an extravagant kind. |
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Carthage too was in the hands of the vaniloquent and extravagant Hasdrubal, gross in appearance and utterly callous. |
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However the figures quoted for the campaign in the ancient sources are regarded by modern historians as extravagant. |
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Despite groans from critics about its extravagant soppiness, it has so far sold almost three million copies in hardback. |
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The national labor union federation has been publicizing the often-times extravagant pay of hundreds of CEOs on its Web site, paywatch. |
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At the time Venetian rococo was well known as rich and luxurious, with usually very extravagant designs. |
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At school I was arty-farty, somewhat sensitive and prone to exorbitant longings and extravagant demands. |
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At the same time, the government became increasingly wasteful and extravagant. |
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He then developed a style of portraiture that was imaginative and often extravagant, catching an instantaneous attitude in his subjects. |
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Deirdre was increasingly off her tree in the last sad days of our relationship. Her demands and quirks were ever more extravagant and dislocated. |
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Claire loves making cakes and pastries, particularly Chelsea buns, and loves a bit of extravagant decorating. |
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The parishes in the countryside did not have the means for such extravagant buildings. |
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And though every one runs into high motions, and extravagant postures, they cease not continually to intermix some word. |
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The lady did not want to bebother her stylist for an extravagant dress design. |
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There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses. |
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The stunning jewellery from the imperial capitals at Pasargadae and Susa further demonstrates extravagant wealth. |
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This, together with the cost of the war and the extravagant spending of Charles's court, produced a rebellious atmosphere in London. |
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Firstly, it was the extravagant and histrionical Bowden who was the villain of the Oval. |
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And the finale is an extravagant and lusciously set and costumed performance of the Lion Dance by the entire company. |
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The nationalist movement in Scotland is associated with flags, strange costumes, weird music and extravagant ceremonial. |
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Like the real thing, her Kovacs is a reviled slumlord inclined to extravagant parties and black lovers. |
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Margot was in many respects the opposite of Asquith's first wife, being outgoing, impulsive, extravagant and opinionated. |
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Olivier was set on playing Malvolio in his own particular rather extravagant way. |
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Under extravagant and rich popes, Rome was transformed into a centre of art, poetry, music, literature, education and culture. |
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Craterus started to carry out Alexander's commands, but the successors chose not to further implement them, on the grounds they were impractical and extravagant. |
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They made their way slowly to the great Palm House and thence up twisty iron steps to a nook like a tree refuge in New Guinea, among palm boles and extravagant aroid growths. |
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The civil officials condemned the expeditions as extravagant and wasteful. |
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The home, based on a bee orchid found in the area, is said to be unique in its use of an underground geothermal heating pump and its extravagant design. |
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Attached to the various protuberances of this column are bronze forms that are half sea horses, half horns of plenty, from which water gushes in extravagant quantities. |
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Daron Pressley enjoyed a six-figure salary and an extravagant lifestyle. |
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The highlight of the evening was an extravagant musical programme presented by renowned playback singers Anup Shankar and Abirami, supported by Aparna Nair and Anab. |
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T HE Pakistani film industry, referred to as Lollywood because they are mostly made in Lahore, continues to remain under the shadow of extravagant Bollywood. |
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Many religious jurists believe the reasoning behind the prohibition lies in avoiding clothing for men that can be considered feminine or extravagant. |
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Fortunately, Shaiman said, the original Dahl text is ''so full of wild, great, extravagant and emotional ideas, that musicalizing the book was actually a walk in the park. |
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In the preamble, the authors explain the recipes are meant to teach a cook how to make both common dishes as well as unusual or extravagant banquet dishes. |
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An environment of harsh contrasts, the castle also had some extravagant chambers, devoid of the stench and misery of the dungeons, only a couple of meters below. |
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All this, together with the cost of the war, of the Great Plague and the extravagant spending of Charles's court, produced a rebellious atmosphere in London. |
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Legendary Vicksburg caterer Helen Abraham provided an extravagant menu of party favorites, with the Lebanese kibbeh disappearing as fast as it was replenished. |
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He would always show up for the visit wearing a pair of brightly polished shoes, a starched collar, and an ostentatious tiepin of extravagant poor taste. |
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Related to this are vigorous marketing of extravagant claims by the alternative medical community combined with inadequate media scrutiny and attacks on critics. |
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In Roman times, wool, linen and leather clothed the European population, and silk, imported along the Silk Road from China, was an extravagant luxury. |
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This will mean fighting for the rights of the underclass as well as questioning the often extravagant opulence of the overclasses in the presence of poverty. |
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He was the most celebrated portrait painter of his day, a notorious ladies' man, obsessed with women, pale beauties dressed in extravagant gowns... or nothing at all. |
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Comic creator Stephan Pastis is notable for his self-depreciating humor, savage predator-prey jokes, and shaggy dog stories culminating in extravagant puns. |
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The Royal Opera House reopened on 20 February 1946 with a performance of The Sleeping Beauty in an extravagant new production designed by Oliver Messel. |
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Just coincidentally, it also provides the opportunity for the sorts of extravagant computerized effects that create tentpole movie attractions these days. |
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