In offering justifications, some distinguish their consumption from commodity fetishism and vanity: it is not extravagant as long as it is affordable.
It was, of course, the show that set the standard for the bells-and-whistles colossi that transformed Broadway artistically and economically in the 1980's (a bar Disney has recently raised), but extravagant as it was, it was extravagance skillfully and presciently deployed.
It was as extravagant as can be".
"That's about as extravagant as we get," he said.
And of course Pee-wee's restless imagination and childish mood swings are as extravagant as ever.
Above all, he was so extravagant as virtually to bankrupt his kingdom.
As extravagant as the action becomes, the picture never loses its sense of complete conviction.
A few focal antique furniture pieces are as extravagant as the decor gets.
(Some of these projects could be extravagant, as the late scenarios reveal).
Luckily for me, I married a woman who was just as extravagant as I was.
We are now living in a new Gilded Age, as extravagant as the original.
