Sentence examples for extravagance from inspiring English sources

The Daily Express has hinted at its support of Ukip in recent weeks, using a leader column on 3 December to blast "the EU's wild extravagance" and side with Farage's claim that the union was "a racket which looks after its own".

But I have been told a hundred times how we climbed the steep slope to the Norman keep of Peveril Castle, marvelled at the stalactites that hung from the roof of Speedwell cavern (explored by boat on the subterranean lake) and - with the extravagance of desperation - paid two shillings and sixpence for scones and jam in one of the tea-rooms which still abound in Derbyshire's Peak District.

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.

In this climate, bilateral dialogue could be seen as an extravagance, and the centre has been criticised from both sides.

Campaigners have claimed that rail fares for season ticket holders have risen by as much as 50% in the past decade, making travelling to work by train an extravagance that people struggle to afford.

Her austerity goes down well with jaded voters tired of cronyism and extravagance.

Rather than chasing growth at any cost, his government has imposed regulations on shadow banking, persevered with curbs on property speculation, and clamped down on government extravagance, such as the schmoozing and boozing, kowtowing and Maotai-ing that accompanies so much official business.As China's economy matures, its pace will slow.

After the financial crisis a lot of companies concluded that they were an extravagance.

Mr Putin's military modernisation, which has absorbed 20% of public spending, looks like an extravagance.

SOME years back a Greek finance minister, fed up with his country's waste and extravagance, claimed that he could save money by shutting down the national railway and driving its passengers around in taxis.

Such mispricing results in extravagance.