The new show, the Ziegfeld Follies, an opulent production filled with beautiful women and highly extravagant costumes and sets, is a smash hit, and is followed by more versions of the Follies.
In 1642 Hale married Anne Moore, the daughter of Sir Henry Moore, a Royalist soldier, and the granddaughter of Sir Francis Moore, a Serjeant-at-Law under James I. Moore and Hale had 10 children, but she was evidently a highly extravagant woman, with Hale warning his children that "an idle or expensive wife is most times an ill bargain, though she bring a great portion".
Farnese commissioned the Zuccaro brothers, Taddeo and Federico, to paint extravagant and highly illusionistic frescoes.
He and Prime Minister Li Keqiang have also vowed to wean China's economy from its dependence on highly polluting industries and extravagant government spending.
The beautiful effects of the virus made the flamboyant and extravagant plants highly coveted, and because they were rare and desirable, they were expensive.
Farce, a comic dramatic piece that uses highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, extravagant exaggeration, and violent horseplay.
It might be Leonardo da Vinci's attic: extravagant, unworkable projects rub shoulders with highly symbolic, spectacular architectural designs.
Beyond that, he was a highly singular white man who chose for himself the most extravagant of raiment, garments that, Ms. Powers suggested, flouted not merely the unwritten dress codes of segregation but migrated freely across the boundaries of sex.
The vividly decorated sets — depicting farmhouses, factories, a supermarket, fields, and even a three-dimensional twenty-foot-long city (based on a street in Bath) — would have been the dollhouses and dioramas of a child's most extravagant fantasies, were they not surrounded by a highly focussed horde of more than a hundred animators and crew members.
The highly secretive Communist government allowed them to photograph little else but the extravagant pageants honoring their supreme leader, Kim Jong-il, or the immaculate subways in Pyongyang.
Jill and Scott Kelley, a well-to-do and highly social couple, either "move to Tampa", per the New York Times, or host an "extravagant evening of champagne, caviar and dinner" to "celebrate their decision to remain in Tampa", as Tampa Bay Magazine would have it.
