Sentence examples for extravagant turn from inspiring English sources

This and every other extravagant turn of events in the book can be justified in terms of the theory of "parallelism", dreamed up by the Viennese analyst our hero travels to Austria to consult (not Freud, though in a nod back to Boyd's Any Human Heart, the great man puts in an appearance, in order to disapprove of the theory).

And when they coincide with a personality as ebullient as Mr. Porter's, every performance has the feel of an extravagant star turn.

Two bass-baritones, Jeongcheol Cha and Leroy Y. Davis, adapted comfortably, but the standout was the versatile soprano Mellissa Hughes, whose dynamic singing and theatrical flair in the concluding song, "The Last Toast," made for an extravagant star turn.

Not when you consider that Geoffrey Rush's extravagant star turn in Exit the King – the Oscar-winning Australian's Broadway debut – is generating grosses in excess of $500,000 a week and that the bravura American ensemble of God of Carnage (James Gandolfini, Hope Davis, Jeff Daniels and the sublime Marcia Gay Harden) is doing even better, outpacing all but the most robust musicals.

Eventually the searchers come upon Cesárea, who dropped her writer's scrim to join the viscerally real world, harsh and extravagant by turns.

Furthermore, as the feminist theorist Judith Butler has argued, these extravagant diva turns, and, more particularly, the drag acts that perpetuate them, reveal the artificiality of conventional gender roles, the "hyperbolic status of the norm itself".

Indeed, IPB's collapse has made Nomura's extravagant promises to turn it into Central Europe's leading bank seem hollow.

"It was like a big, extravagant rock band turning into  PJ Harvey," Wilson says.

But in 2000-01, the final fiscal year of Labour's first term, Mr Brown gave up prudence and turned extravagant.

So what happens when a child -- that repository of extravagant hopes -- turns out to be not only different but less than normal?

"The probability of fish trophies," read our itinerary, "is 100%." That sounded extravagant, but it turned out to be perfectly true.