Sentence examples for extravagant reputation from inspiring English sources

And the narrator's lost friend was a "character," a large personality remembered, with loathing and love, for her enigmatic singularity: so, most perilously, Harvey's novel must work to convince us that this vague "you" of the narrator's letter deserves her extravagant reputation and the time spent recalling her.

Even so, the government did not detain Mr. Hutomo, a millionaire businessman with a reputation for extravagant living.

His great project, on which he worked obsessively, was to be "a cathedral for the poor" – and yet he forged his reputation building extravagant villas for Catalan millionaires and courting wealthy patrons.

He also acquired a scandalous public reputation for his extravagant lifestyle, decadent parties, and unconcealed drug habit.

Kanye West has a reputation for being extravagant when it comes to gifts, and Mother's Day was no exception.

And Mr Wilson's extravagant staging reinforces the opera's reputation as a money pit.

Despite its reputation as the epitome of extravagant waste, packaging such as plastic films and paper wrappings for food, also play their part in environmental pollution.

However, Ian Watson's young side are fast crafting a reputation as one of the most extravagant and eye-catching sides in the competition.

Since his arrest in 2012, Dotcom has been a polarising figure in New Zealand, but his reputation suffered serious damage in the extravagant "Moment of Truth" event that he hosted with the Internet party at Auckland Town Hall last Monday.

Extravagant claims like this have been damaging the reputation of our soon-to-be robot overlords for decades now.

But McNealy has gained a reputation as Microsoft's most relentless and extravagant critic.