They have a number of rituals, the most solemn of which is that on your birthday you must cook a great big extravagant meal for everybody else.
Primitive Painters bemoans, with great charm, extravagant beauty and a goosebump-raising cameo from Liz Fraser, the plight of the sensitive artist.
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.
The report advances great, not to say extravagant, claims about what aid can achieve, even in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, over the next ten years.
His extravagant behaviour, great debts, and open liaison with Henrietta, wife of Sir Francis Sykes (the prototype of the heroine in his novel Henrietta Temple [1837]), all gave him a dubious reputation.
In the book, a boy named Gerald McGrew makes a great number of delightfully extravagant claims as to what he would do if he were in charge at the zoo where, he insists, the animals housed there were boring.
The December ITU conference isn't one of the standard meaningless international boondoggles -- where high-level functionaries travel (at great expense, and in extravagant luxury) to demand, that someone else do something, about some important problem.
There are distinct elements of The Great Gatsby in this book: extravagant parties, careless people, marital discord.
Together with fashion curator Judith Clark, he is preparing to expose the great scandal in all its extravagant, ostentatious and downright crude glory.
Extravagant to a great degree, Ernest had many money troubles throughout his reign.
