Sentence examples for grossly expensive from inspiring English sources

She often recommends grossly expensive items to her middle-class audience with a blitheness many find either insulting or comical.

Royal occasions, grossly expensive sporting events, the armed forces: all the bread and circuses by which the elite have always exerted control over hoi polloi.

If we were to go the route of technological innovation, the biggest aid we could give the U.S. industry would be to create one simple, national licence that allows this sort of lending, rather than the grossly expensive current system we have where lenders must apply state by state, each with different rules.

Although the NHS is not grossly expensive when compared with other countries' health systems, it falls down on ease of access to specialist care.

Having graduated from some stupid, grossly expensive journalism school, I can tell you that 99percentt of the professors there don't have a clue as to what's happening technologically.

Such as mandating that all new bus stops must have grossly expensive high-tech surveillance cameras.

He said he was sceptical of the system of academies, which he said were "grossly and unnecessarily expensive".

Last January Newman wrote in the Spectator that windfarms were "grossly inefficient, extremely expensive, socially inequitable, a danger to human health, environmentally harmful, divisive for communities, a blot on the landscape, and don't even achieve the purpose for which they were designed – namely the reliable generation of electricity and the reduction of CO2 emissions".

The fact that there were a mere 1,800 islanders, and that their way of life was preserved at the cost of 1,000 British casualties and 1,800 Argentinian ones did not seem a grossly stupid and expensive way of conducting foreign policy; it proved that freedom is indivisible, tyranny will be defeated, and the wishes of the loyal locals sovereign.

"Ministers must take this opportunity to pursue wholesale reform and abandon the existing structure of immigration detention which has been shown to be grossly inefficient, hugely expensive and in direct contradiction of our most cherished British values of justice, liberty and compassion".

It was politically cheaper to hike taxes than reform Greece's expensive and grossly inefficient bureaucracy.