America views Africa through nonprofits and disaster-craven media, while America is viewed by many on the continent through the glorified prism of movies, TV, and the extravagant, excessive, over-indulgent culture we export around the world.
But if you revel in extravagant over-decoration (such as the dramatic silvered sleigh bed in my suite, 31) and a sense of theater, the place is a lot of fun.
And the high wind generally attendant upon his high-altitude cross-examination would whip his extravagant comb-over up and across his glistening pate where it would frantically dance while Gubby Allen or perhaps one of the Bedser twins would bemoan the state of the modern game.I do not wish to bemoan the modern game.
The plots run as efficiently as Bond's 4.5-liter Bentley, with scarcely a wasted word, but the books are also extravagant, with their over-the-top villains — Hugo Drax, Emilio Largo, Goldfinger, Ernst Blofeld and his creepy consort, Irma Bunt — and their parade of barely clad heroines so absurdly named they sound like lingerie brands: Solitaire, Tiffany Case, Honeychile Rider, Kissy Suzuki.
Well, that's the beginning, in Moore's case, of a very long and extravagant poem which over the course of her career, as she returned to it and sought to tell the truth in her poem and to insist on what was genuine, she eventually cut to only those lines.
Mafi tried an extravagant dive over a ruck, not his best decision at the end of the first half.
Did I have the vague feeling that "a strange traveller" might show up and tell "extravagant stories" over a meal of fresh rabbit?
Indeed, if we mentioned every one of Kanye West's extravagant claims over the last 12 months, we'd be here all day.
His intense, cerebral comedies, which gnaw away at his Anglo-Jewish identity, the convolutions of the male mind and the battle of the sexes, have won him extravagant praise over the years.
