Sentence examples for a profligacy from inspiring English sources

Twice the Leeds United striker displayed a profligacy that was unbecoming to such an arena.

That is a profligacy the world can manage without.The obvious answer is to cut the cables and go wireless.

A profligacy of carbon emission has led to climate change which may cause future screenings of Springwatch to fall in March, then February, then January - until finally spring is abolished altogether as an event.

And so the reporter voyaged from the Salvador Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain, and, on, through Paul Cézanne country in southern France, to Italy, spending cash along the way on oysters and highway toll fees with a profligacy that seems heretical in these more straitened times.

It was a drama that looked the part, wearing its period detail for purpose rather than show, its handsome set pieces – floating scenes of dicky bows, diamonds and furs, champagne floozies, a juggling dwarf on the table – evoking a profligacy and moral deficiency that spoke of Britain's decline as much as the ominous flickering of light bulbs and rubbish glimpsed piling up in the street.

In recent years, the phrase "American exceptionalism," at once resonant and ambiguous, has stolen into popular usage in electoral politics, in the mainstream media, and in academic writing with a profligacy that is hard to account for.

But if the new money going to BBC2, and the new blood coming to Channel 4 are to achieve the sustained flow of documentaries they profess to want, they will need to convince the accountants that development and contingency are not a sign of profligacy but a fund for creative thinking.

But it's tough to sell this logic to a Northern electorate prone to seeing the South's predicament as a plain instance of profligacy (a diagnosis that is surely off the mark in Spain's case).

But after starting his first competitive match for Wales in almost 12 months, the striker was not about to let a bout of profligacy, including an embarrassing first-half penalty miss - "It was that bad the keeper nearly dived over it," he joked - overshadow the satisfaction he took from completing 81 minutes without once looking in the direction of the medical staff.

I cannot be absent.' " Taliban leaders seemed to savor the news of the deaths as indicating what they portrayed as an American profligacy with human life.

By repackaging much discretionary spending as "Funds for America", it also makes it less obvious that the spending caps have been broken.Gimmicky, perhaps; but these tactics do not, as some Republicans claim, conceal an outrageous profligacy.