A majority of the familiar quotations from Mizner are extravagant figures of speech.
The extravagant and embarrassing speech in public that closes "Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People" in Birds of America is done again here in "Debarking", laboriously making the character drunk this time.
In the martial atmosphere of an election year (and in a country where four sitting presidents have been assassinated, and many more have survived serious attempts on their lives), extravagant figures of speech can all too easily become literal, and rhetorical guns turn into real ones.
Khatami's reforms were wishy-washy by the standards of Iran's serious radicals (a little more freedom of speech, nothing extravagant), but I welcomed them like a new dawn.
However, in their absence the Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald had invited Sapiro to tour Alberta, and his speeches stirred up extravagant expectations among UFA members for immediate action, in time for the new organization to market the 1923 crop.
They dispensed with poetic language and extravagant diction, instead using action and dialogue that looked and sounded like everyday behaviour and speech.
Rentoul: This is the most extravagant claim made in a Budget speech since taper relief for hunter-gathering was announced in 2500BC.
Bailey's interest in Green made good sense, given the two writers' similar blends of comic tone and melancholy subject matter and their sharp ear for the more extravagant rhetorical flourishes of British working-class speech.
Mr. Bush and Mr. Kennedy, scions of the nation's two most famous and opposing political families with much to gain from the other, took time in each of their speeches at Boston Latin for extravagant compliments.
Unfortunately, the speech and the paper suggest that neither prolonged cogitation nor extravagant consultation have produced much that is new.
