Sentence examples for extravagant opening from inspiring English sources

Shanghai kicked off the 2010 World Expo on Friday evening with an extravagant opening ceremony and fireworks show and a pledge to be more open and inclusive.

There are memorable images ("like uncongealing blood through a bandage, came I ever on"), fantastic rants and belly-grabbing humour, from an extravagant opening fart gag to closing explosions.

IT'S been a summer of spectacle in London, from the celebrations of the queen's Diamond Jubilee to the ambitiously named World Shakespeare Festival, and now the grandest show of them all, the 2012 Summer Olympics, which will formally begin tonight with an extravagant opening ceremony orchestrated by the film director Danny Boyle.

Around 80% of Team GB's 56-strong team – expected to deliver their best performance since 1936 and win at least three medals – will have arrived in time to take part in Friday's extravagant opening ceremony in a 40,000-capacity stadium that cost $780m.

These extravagant openings are followed by the ludicrously sexual, though rarely sexy, credit sequences.

The sight of hundreds of samba dancers resplendent in extravagant headpieces at the Games opening ceremony.

Some certainly brings in more money; some including that spent on lavish Olympic opening ceremonies looks more extravagant.

Though the public-sector unions have countered IG Metall's restraint with an opening bid for an extravagant 5% pay rise, Mr Schröder has reason to look pleased.

Far from the "extravagant" celebration Manigault touted, the administration's opening and closing events for Black History Month were met with ridicule.

It showed an income of $6,664.26 and a loss of $1,987.74, partly because the couple spent $250, a fairly extravagant sum back then, taking taxis to gallery openings.

THE opening shot of "Poseidon" may be the most extravagant ever filmed.