Sentence examples for extravagant image from inspiring English sources
"We must radically alter this slightly too extravagant image of cultural policy, to awaken deep within all our regions an attachment to culture and the promotion of culture as a lever of economic attractiveness for our country," she said.
The same explanation holds for the Qurʾānic criticism of a certain kind of poetry namely, free indulgence in extravagant image mongering: "They [poets] recklessly wander in every valley" (26:265).
I already had some ideas about this particular emperor and his extravagant image – from the incest with his sisters to his mad megalomania, not to mention that marvellous story about making his horse a consul.
Every extravagant image of the Market -- its mystical "hand," its disconnected and dispassionate "rational actor," its purported "laws" and inexorability -- these all play into this core belief of an increasingly neo-liberal Europe.
Having exulted here last week in the extravagant images of the best of fifties sci-fi B-movies, it's worth a look at a clip from my favorite of them, "The Amazing Colossal Man," to see what they deliver.
With his grandly clashing passions — and with his extravagant images, scripts, and, for that matter, performances (starting with his own) — Welles is the most Shakespearean figure in the history of cinema.
Anti-realistic, antiheroic, the choreography telegraphs its dramatic meaning in extravagant distilled images, often symbolic.
Some are extravagant, cinematic images that look very much like the larger-than-life agitprop paintings that are ubiquitous in the hermetic nation.
In other words, by "street cred-ing" spaces for the elite, design is used to legitimize the extravagant via images of the honest-to-God consequences of the all-too everyday.
This is dialect not as a broken attempt at higher correctness but as an extravagant game of image and sound.
It is too soon to know how the more extravagant and riskier images from last year's runways will find their way into everyday life.
