Sentence examples for extravagant manner from inspiring English sources
For all Burton's extravagant manner, the adaptation is faithful to the original, which means that the bulk of the movie is sung rather than spoken.
The Universal collection builds to two major films by Douglas Sirk, neither in the extravagant manner of the Technicolor melodramas ("Written on the Wind," "Imitation of Life") for which he is best known.
The poetry of Théophile and other independents is a last example of that exuberant and extravagant manner developed in the late 16th century to which modern criticism has given the name Baroque.
His own features, which started with Jabberwocky, Time Bandits and Brazil, have juxtaposed fantasy and realism, the earthy and the ethereal, in a personal, extravagant manner that draws as much on the satire of Mark Twain as on the absurdity of Lewis Carroll.
They bought an estate on which MacLaren had a house built, and the couple were able to live in the extravagant manner he had always wanted.
The president has attacked central bank policies, the banking regulators, and what he's christened the "interest rate lobby" — all while continuing to spend in an increasingly extravagant manner, including on a widely mocked $615 million, 1,150-room presidential palace more than 30 times the size of the White House.
They handed out leaflets blaming him for depicting homosexuals as sexually obsessed, too extravagant in manner and too eager to drag up.
Ms. Rojo is a very different dancer, almost impassive in her face and a bit too cool to project the more extravagant ballerina manner expected in the 19th-century classics.
The first-person character she brings to this quest isn't ironically brooding or darkly extravagant in the manner of Didion or Mailer, nor severely pedagogical like their predecessor, the Hemingway of "Death in the Afternoon".
Wearing an imposing costume designed by A. Christina Giannini and Ms. Buglisi, Ms. Capucilli gestured in an extravagant but never overwrought manner.
All manner of extravagant fantasy seems to be allowable in the commercial space of the multiplex — robots from outer space, time travel, magic and all the talking animals you want — but the art house is apparently the domain of the literal.
