Sentence examples for extravagant settings from inspiring English sources

EARLIER in his career Sharr White wrote lavish plays: modern-day riffs on the ancient Greeks, plays with extravagant settings and lots of characters.

NEW YORK GRAND OPERA: "TOSCA" Puccini's truly grand opera, renowned for its extravagant settings, will receive an intimate (free) concert performance from the feisty company of Vincent La Selva, a master of Italian style, in Central Park's Naumburg Band Shell.

A succession of brilliant painters Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, and Paolo Veronese developed the lyrical Venetian painting style that combined pagan subject matter, sensuous handling of colour and paint surface, and a love of extravagant settings.

I've included some images that show servants in extravagant settings, like Guillaume Bonn's safari image, as well as his image of maids in a wealthy household.

And while each property showcases its own style, all 10 hotels feature three key traits that set them apart: superb customer service, extravagant amenities and serene settings, ranging from cliffside beach oases to tropical island sanctuaries.

Its setting is extravagant.

It features a whir of footage of extravagant weddings and parties, fireworks and fancy place settings, set to a thumping soundtrack.

My encomium to a classic is hardly needed, but L'Engle's creation of complex but fantasy-tweaked kids facing fantastic settings and situations that are extravagant but coherent, enriched by a heady blend of science and spirituality, is a spark to imagination that's all the more potent for its introspective, psychological specificity.

The report said: "A distinctive feature of soaps is that they have everyday settings and strong elements of realism in the portrayals, despite the extravagant nature of some of the plots.

In contrast, there has lately been a growing realization that the prodigal and often extravagant "North" has something to learn from innovations that emerge from resource-challenged settings.

Rarely extravagant.