The phrase "avoiding extravagance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the importance of being frugal or not indulging in excessive spending or luxury.
Example: "In today's economy, many families are focusing on avoiding extravagance to save money for essential needs."
Alternatives: "practicing restraint" or "steering clear of excess".
Spencer avoids extravagance, punctuating their flow with quiet pulses and suggestive throbs.
Housing leaders gamely agree; they say they're doing what they can to avoid waste and extravagance while still encouraging the best talent to go for the top jobs in housing.
Anxiety about last year's terrorist attack has been shouldered aside by anxiety about the economy, and organizations are avoiding even the appearance of extravagance.
More interesting are the chronicles, which avoid the romantic extravagances of their verse predecessors.
The morbid subject matter suggests the Expressionist films then being made in Germany (Fritz Lang's "Destiny," also released in 1921, immediately comes to mind), but Sjostrom avoids the stylistic extravagances of the Germans.
More generally, as they build their welfare states, Asian countries are determined to avoid the West's extravagance.
They are subject to federal guidelines, which say, among other things, that seized funds are to be used "for law enforcement purposes only", and that agencies receiving funds should spend them "in such a manner as to avoid any appearance of extravagance, waste or impropriety".
Reform is risky, but avoiding it is riskier still.Mr Xi clearly understands the strength of popular feeling, particularly on the issue of corruption and official extravagance.
Banging on about Alarm Clock Britain is all very well, as long as you avoid anything that smacks of extravagance, decadence, or a social life involving rich friends.Just ask Mr Sarkozy, a politician who is nothing if not pragmatic.
It may be tacky, but it has its cinematic identity; Assayas seems to relish its oddball bluntness and rhetorical extravagance, which is exactly what, in the rest of "Personal Shopper," he avoids.
