Sentence examples for extravagant edifice from inspiring English sources
Perhaps Marjorie Merriweather Post, the billionaire who designed and built the extravagant edifice in which you now reside, dancing around your private living quarters all night long, taunting you.
Utzon found himself reporting to Davis Hughes, a rural politician whose country constituents were unsympathetic to the extravagant urban edifice.
"Are we building extravagant facilities?
Because this building was very extravagant.
The preferred hairstyle for women was to bunch their hair up like "an elaborate edifice above the forehead," while affluent ladies wore extravagant head ornaments, combs, pearl necklaces, face powders, and perfumes.
Wheeler finds Trollope to have a "voice that sings" from the pages of the often peppery "Domestic Manners," and she relishes the opportunity to detail her subject's extravagant failures, first in joining a short-lived utopian community in Tennessee, then in constructing an elaborate limestone edifice in frontier Cincinnati modeled after England's thriving urban exhibition halls.
They are not extravagant.
