Sentence examples for extravagant winter from inspiring English sources

She also encouraged the development of education and art, founding Russia's first university (in Moscow) and the Academy of Arts (in St . Petersburg and building the extravagant Winter Palace (also in St . Petersburg.

Your vision of your adult life with your mother is one of spoiling her, of being so successful in your endeavors that you are able to cradle her in comfort and luxury, and that your visits will be demonstrations of largess and tenderness, the car trunk opening to reveal some expensive new kitchen appliance or extravagant winter coat.

The potential pressure points include the Winter Classic, the extravagant Jan . 1outdoor game and NBC telecast that has proved vitally important to the N.H.L.'s visibility, and the need to avoid further financial disruption for the estimated 16 to 18 money-losing teams.

They threw legendarily extravagant Christmas parties.

"So I went home and put together an extravagant Christmas show," Mr. Rogers said.

What might be extravagant today, might in half a century become penurious and inadequate".

"People just don't want to look extravagant today," said Paul Grieco, an owner of Hearth, Insieme and Terroir in Manhattan.

Andy Wong Famed for his extravagant Chinese New Year parties, which attract socialites from around the world, by trade Wong is loosely described as a financier.

In the extravagant 1991 London Palladium revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, directed by Steven Pimlott and starring Jason Donovan, he played Jacob and Potiphar.

He had been developing plans to assassinate Obama and Petraeus, to pull off an extravagant September 11th anniversary attack, and to attack American trains.

Schlössernacht or Night of the Palaces is a summer festival held once a year in the grounds of Schloss Sanssouci, Frederick the Great's extravagant summer retreat in Potsdam, just outside Berlin.