"I'm not an extravagant-type person," she said.
Fantasy and sci-fi titles are able to disguise level grind behind multiple hugely diverse mythical and alien enemy types and extravagant outlandish environments: The Division can't do that.
Look back at the gorgeous cars of the past 50 years, and you'll find ragtops aplenty: the super-sleek Mercedes 300 SL roadster from the 1950s, the sensual Jaguar E-Type and extravagant Cadillac convertibles of the 1960s and the Ferrari Daytona Spyder from the early 1970s.
Even if not fatal, Type I diabetes results in extravagant caloric loss via glucose in the urine.
We also like beautiful places to stay, some a little extravagant, others less so, but no big American-type hotels.
But the brooding, sex-in-a-suit type (near right) is Geoffrey Howe, chairman of Nationwide, who has compared the extravagant salaries of bank executives with those of "footballers" (such as Cristiano Ronaldo, centre) and "pop stars" (Jon Bon Jovi, far right).
In 1975 Mr. Shorter published "The Making of the Modern Family," in which he made even more extravagant claims about the relative novelty of the close-knit "Leave It to Beaver" type of family.
"Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is of this quiet, feline type.
He was not the type to display false exuberance, and in fact, tended to resist the kinds of extravagant claims about American greatness that fall so easily from the lips of politicians.
But if your date went on an extravagant vacation, you could innocently probe further with a 'Wow, how did you pay for that?'-type question.
