This is in sharp contrast with East Asian countries such as China or South Korea, where many parents spent extravagant sums on cultivating their children's communicative (mainly oral) abilities outside of formal education (Butler, 2015; Hu & McKay, 2012).
The table itself — once Mr. Nakashima had completed it and my parents had paid him $550, an extravagant sum for them at the time — became the centerpiece of our home.
There were a few who thought, however, that the $20 million spent on the festivities was an extravagant sum for a country that still suffered from widespread poverty, disturbing levels of corruption, and a persistent electricity crisis.
He spent extravagant sums on luxuries and magnificent buildings and seriously debased the coinage.
The final cost for the cover art was nearly £3,000, an extravagant sum for a time when album covers would typically cost around £50.
In 2011, documents obtained by WikiLeaks revealed that Beyoncé was one of many entertainers who had received extravagant sums to perform for the family of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
As the Springfield Republican newspaper reported at the time, "Those unable to obtain ghastly relics directly paid their more fortunate possessors extravagant sums for them.
It showed an income of $6,664.26 and a loss of $1,987.74, partly because the couple spent $250, a fairly extravagant sum back then, taking taxis to gallery openings.
"It means someone who spends an extravagant amount of money".
(To be sure, these extravagant sums could have been far better used at home).
