Sentence examples for extravagant fancy from inspiring English sources

The reef was an extravagant fancy dress party to which everyone had been invited.

Bursting at the seams with copiously researched facts and extravagant fancy, it is sometimes delightful and as often tedious.

But it also has flashes of the theatrical exuberance and extravagant fancy that is so specifically Mr. Guare's.

The real heads though aren't content with the designated dance floor, hoisting themselves up on stage to show off their unorthodox shapes and extravagant fancy dress.

For the Winklers, two salaries had never meant extravagant spending or fancy vacations, but the means of keeping the girls "out of trouble," as Ms. Sanchez likes to say.

Daily bread was usually brown and meant for sustenance; only for holidays, Easter in particular, was it rich and extravagant, made with fancy white flour, milk, butter and eggs, and studded with candied fruit.

Dancers carried poles in "Zapateado," and the choreography contrasted steady beatings of the poles on the floor with steps that took off from that rhythmic basis on extravagant flights of fancy footwork.

Scholars naturally assumed her poetic variations on a convent theme — repentance for lapses in devotion — were extravagant flights of pious fancy.

"If they buy an extravagant boat or a fancy car, they call up all their friends to come see it," she said.

This "Uncle Vanya," with its flamboyant flights of fancy and extravagant mixed metaphors, was closer in spirit to the original tragicomic intent of Chekhov than any interpretation I have seen.

A typical couple now pick a lucky date (days that are even-numbered in both the western and Chinese calendars are best) and prepare to spend a small fortune on rented limousines, fancy gowns, extravagant banquets, professional photographers and often an exotic honeymoon.As much as weddings in China have changed, so too has marriage itself.