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There was One North's £15bn transport infrastructure plan, including a high-speed rail link, "HS-3", from Manchester to Leeds – reportedly even more extravagant than the proposed high speed rail link, HS2.
People may well make all sorts of extravagant claims when they are trying to obtain funds for organisations, but the evidential trail would have to prove they had enough influence with those at the other end of the scale to actually deliver what they promised".
"The more extravagant vision of the ship floating at sea for weeks is I think an unnecessary vision with my understanding that government lawyers have now undertaken to get this ship of asylum seekers to a destination within the next couple of days, and we have to accept that in good faith".
It lies in the fact that most of us from the postcolonial world, though intuitively sympathetic to the idea of self-determination, cannot claim to have fulfilled even partially its extravagant promise.
It's often supposed that a fashion designer is extravagant , flamboyant and extrovert.
Some may feel that all this is a little extravagant for an author who had not the intellectual capacity of Jean-Paul Sartre, nor the story-telling skill of François Mauriac, nor the charisma of André Malraux: three of the many rivals trailing behind in the glory stakes.
I don't mind camping, but quite like the idea of something a little bit extravagant , too.' The budget: £1,000 for a week, to £1,800 for two weeks The solution: Laura Burgess from Ecoescape: 'There are no end of options for slow travel in the UK and Ireland.
Tajikistan is a state dependent on foreign aid, but that doesn't stop president Emomali Rahmon from undertaking extravagant building projects.
The wedding was the next day, and it was at some extravagant resort off in the desert outside Phoenix, and every defence contractor in the state of Arizona was there, and they all had wives with the hair and the bosoms out to here.
But concerns over safety, standardisation, interactions with other drugs, as well as extravagant claims and lack of evidence for efficacy have all led to attempts to regulate herbal medicine and its practitioners.
GK Chesterton's fantasy The Man Who Was Thursday begins with a rapturous account of the beauty and picturesque wildness of the first garden suburbs: "The extravagant roofs were dark against the afterglow and the whole insane village seemed as separate as a drifting cloud".
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The adjective "extravagant " primarily functions as a pre-modifier, describing a noun by attributing a quality of excessiveness or lavishness. As Ludwig AI indicates, it suggests something beyond what is reasonable or necessary, often related to spending or display.
Expression frequency: Very common
