Sentence examples for developed extravagant from inspiring English sources

By the early 20th century, the public had developed extravagant expectations from doctors, who, in turn, were often willing to play the role created in part by their own profession's self-representation as heroic microbe hunters.

After another stint in Paris he returned in 1967 to the United States, which he found changed by the civil rights movement, and to the Bay Area, where artists like Roy De Forest, William T. Wiley, Joan Brown, Robert Arneson and especially Peter Saul had developed extravagant, often caustic figurative styles.

In the 1970s, he developed an extravagant theory of literary creation for which all authors were locked in Oedipal combat with some mighty predecessor.

For 40 years I developed an extravagant, exotic, and flamboyant wardrobe that lent itself to the television-show format.

The king worshiped the theatre and the opera, and henceforth concerned himself almost exclusively with his artistic endeavours, developing an extravagant mania for building in the Bavarian mountains that he loved.

The poetry of Théophile and other independents is a last example of that exuberant and extravagant manner developed in the late 16th century to which modern criticism has given the name Baroque.

The younger Durant, who so cunningly envisaged luxury in the wilderness, seemed to have developed the instinct for extravagant gestures early.

The late Middle Ages developed decorative table fountains as extravagant toys.

Over the last decade, your fashion-forward comrades have developed a taste for similarly extravagant shoes, a predilection that has somehow escaped derision because of its origins in the untouchable cool of hip-hop culture.

Many other sects developed out of these groups, some with practices considered extravagant.

By the 4th millennium bce, Egypt had developed an elaborate stonemasonry technique, culminating in the most extravagant of all ancient structures, the pyramids.