Sentence examples for an extravagance in the use of from inspiring English sources

The country club, on the outskirts of Athens, was laid out with an extravagance in the use of space that you seldom find outside the Americas.

This enormous set is a rare extravagance in the age of CGI pictures.

His oratorios (some short, some longer) are simple and free from extravagance and make effective use of the chorus.

Americans are deeply suspicious of extravagance practiced in the name of authority.

This might explain the extravagance in terms of both manpower and material for the party leadership's propaganda battles with the west.

Death was universally observed through rituals, which increased in extravagance in direct proportion to the status of the deceased.

We all agreed that the tasting was fascinating, with many highly refined beers and few that indulged in extravagance for the sake of extravagance.

In short, the book belies the extravagance of the feat it seems to document: the covert installation, and brief use, of a balcony on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center, 1,100 feet above the earth.

We slept in until after nine, an extravagance of unprecedented dimensions.

Something in her metabolism, however, makes her pull back from embracing the extravagance of Williams's speech with an extravagance of spirit.

As a result there was little of the Baroque extravagance in church building seen on the continent and England.