Sentence examples for extravagant power from inspiring English sources
The extravagant power of his infantilist genius makes objections and qualifications look obtuse.
The resulting explosion of the crack-cocaine market hit many New Haven residents with addictions they couldn't afford, while landing others positions of extravagant power.
He is approached by someone who promises not merely to cure him but to arm him with extravagant powers.
Comic-book films remain in their relative infancy – the oft-compared western genre took more than three decades to hit its peak – and it seems unlikely that audiences will tire of superheroes with silly names, outlandish outfits and extravagant powers any time soon.
(Findley later wrote a book that made extravagant claims about the power of the Israel lobby).
In an interview, however, he declined to make extravagant claims for the power of voodoo.
Mr. Jones said the ballroom, technologically speaking, has its limitations: It is a large open room, with no stage, and it lacks the electrical power for extravagant lighting.
What makes the ruling especially distressing is that the extravagant claim of executive power upheld by the court — to create a law-free zone at the Bagram lockup — was dreamed up by Mr. Bush and subsequently embraced by President Obama.
This two-part "Faust" is a circus of operatic scale, a fun house, a tango of poetry and theatrical and sonic wizardry whose virtuosity renders the work in all its surging strangeness, power and extravagant beauty.
The administration should focus on putting such a process in place, instead of wasting its energies in an appeal that simply recycles extravagant claims of executive power and perpetuates the detention policies of the Bush administration.
García Márquez's magic realism, derived from the surrealism of tyranny and empty stomachs, is also the massacre that people pretend never happened because it can't be addressed in the newspapers or courts; it is unanswerable power's extravagant appetites; it is the foretold murder an entire town is nightmarishly powerless to prevent.
