Sentence examples for become extravagant from inspiring English sources

"With this road, times have become extravagant.

After months of rather mild comment (by his standards, that is), his rhetoric has again become extravagant.

By now, the Arkestra had begun wearing Egyptian robes and space-themed headpieces, and their stage shows had become extravagant "cosmo-dramas".

Gift-giving, for example, is a lovely tradition but can become extravagant and excessive, creating inter-personal competitiveness and financial stress.

While hardly a new story, the tendency to waste talent in order to retain and enhance personal networks of control has now become extravagant; a default norm, rather than a tolerated excess.

The original Spanish farthingale was dark in colour, but elsewhere the fashion became extravagant and gaudy.

He says: "It almost becomes extravagant having different teams in the organisation doing the same function".

Sometimes, especially in mystical thought, such language becomes extravagant, foreshadowed by vivid biblical metaphors such as the husband-wife relation in Hosea, the "adoption" motif in Ezekiel 16, and the firstborn-son relation in Exodus 4 22.

Listening to the Stockhausen, I was struck by the spirituality of Gesang der Jünglinge and the theatricality of Kontakte: we tend to forget that the sense of cosmic drama, which became extravagant in his later work, was integral to his output from the beginning.

It is written in anger, but without hatred; in affection, but without pathos and tears; and in humor that never becomes extravagant".

Even in Hollywood, where the most extreme appetites will be accommodated by the entertainment industry, his screw-ups had become too extravagant and numerous to hush up.