Sentence examples for extravagant figures from inspiring English sources

A majority of the familiar quotations from Mizner are extravagant figures of speech.

It operates like a fable or a myth, a story in which outlandish and extravagant figures and events serve as conduits for universal experiences.

Miller notes that, while its mood is dark, Collins's saga "operates like a fable or myth, a story in which outlandish and extravagant figures and events serve as conduits for universal experiences".

But to look at his extravagant figures striding out in braided waistcoats with silk mutton sleeves and low-slung sailor pants was to imagine Balzac, or George Sand, in Eastern regalia.

In the martial atmosphere of an election year (and in a country where four sitting presidents have been assassinated, and many more have survived serious attempts on their lives), extravagant figures of speech can all too easily become literal, and rhetorical guns turn into real ones.

But, more recently, the poet's name has become entangled with those of celebrities buying into the village even as the extravagant figures of Thomas's imagination -- "the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, postman and publican," to name but a few of those in what he termed a play for voices -- fade from memory and new luminaries come to strut the stage.

Through the front window, she took a picture of the extravagant figure.

Her crèche was an extravagant 167 figures.

It is distinguished by the relatively rare, extravagant, full-figure anthropomorphic versions of Maya hieroglyphics on the upper parts of its sides, which are particularly well preserved.

Suggested by MadelaineFungDuLac This elaborate painting, depicting extravagant-looking biblical figures Herod and Salome, tells a tale of seduction and desire.

The UN Provides the flimsiest base for its figures, building extravagant assumptions on the high end of American estimates.