Sentence examples similar to conspicuous expenses from inspiring English sources
They were things of conspicuous expense that only the wealthy could afford.
But something about its lavish detail and conspicuous expense evoked, for me, the recent excesses of the Wild Wild East: Moscow bling nonpareil.
It isn't lost on Visconti that his drama of life in and around a gritty Roman courtyard is the product of great expense and conspicuous luxury; in fact, that paradox is the very subject of the film.
Some conspicuous similarities: low profile, low expenses, absence of celebrity managers.
As dean, I had consciously avoided an addiction to the perks of power -- nice offices and expense accounts, rampant conspicuous consumption, and excessive sway over others -- so withdrawal is unlikely to be a problem.
Any overt display of conspicuous spending, he added, even if not a dime was expensed to a corporate account, would not sit well with his employer.
Some compared them cynically to the more lenient punishments handed out in the 2009 expense account scandal involving members of Parliament, or the conspicuous absence of prosecutions over irresponsible banking practices that helped lead to the world financial crisis.
Germany's good fortune, however conspicuous to other Europeans, is widely viewed here as having come at the expense of its workers, who for the past decade have sacrificed wages and benefits to make their employers more competitive.
