Stylistic grace, emotional punch, truth to experience, extravagance of imagination, storytelling brio, moral rigour, intellectual or formal audacity, depth of characterisation, or what Milan Kundera calls "the soft gleam of the comical"…?
These will test whether people with distinctly different spending behaviour, such as miserliness and extravagance, experience different amounts of pain (or, at least, show different patterns of brain activity) in response to prices.
"Spending money on an experience seems like an extravagance to me".
This is no ordinary department store: it's an experience, a tourist destination, an extravagance like nothing I've ever seen in the retail world.
Anything Goes is the kind of necessary extravagance that must be experienced live, in person.
Later in the decade, writing about a journey to America, he says, in defense of Henry Ford, "No extravagance of hatred merely following on experience of Jews can properly be called a prejudice..
Later in the decade, writing about a journey to America, he says, in defense of Henry Ford, "No extravagance of hatred merely following on experience of Jews can properly be called a prejudice...
Old World extravagances became part of the New World museumgoing experience.
August Wilson's plays were about African-Americans owning their story; McCraney's plays, in their stylistic extravagance, seem to somehow want to disown the African-American experience.
Though I knew this experience existed, circumstances – no time to shop frivolously, a budget moratorium on extravagance, a general inability to travel to France every six months – caused me to default to buying six-packs of Dove.
Valérie Berry, valerieberry.com A big bowl of seriously bitter molten chocolate with crisp, salty olive-oil toasts for dippers … an extravagance of bold flavours that will definitively banish any naff chocolate fondue experience you may have had.
