Sentence examples for huge extravagance from inspiring English sources

They cost about $10 each, making them a huge extravagance, because the other way to procure these gels is for grad students to spend a few hours making them.

The extravagance is so huge, the hotel actually wanted to build a full-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower, but it would have interfered with flights arriving at the nearby airport.

Galina was spoiled by a father who himself had a taste for extravagance (he had a huge collection of foreign cars).

Harris's pantomime productions at the huge theatre were known for their extravagance and splendour.

Honoré de Balzac found time to produce more than 100 novels but also time to blow his huge earnings on gambling, insanely wild extravagances and worthless Sardinian silver mines and spent many moons hiding from his creditors.

Obama's will be dismissed as an act of tax-and-spend FDR-era extravagance that will create a huge new bureaucracy, drive god-fearing businesses out of healthcare entirely, suck the working class dry and lead the country down that slippery slope toward Stalinistic central control.

The economy may be slowing and lots of dot-com stock options are underwater, but the top slice of income earners is still sitting on a huge pile of wealth and their free-flowing extravagance is expected to propel such top purveyors of gilded baubles and designer delectables as Tiffany & Company, Neiman Marcus Group and LVMH-Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton into yet another banner financial year.

Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance.

France's financial woes were laid at her jeweled slippers, even though her extravagances were negligible compared with the huge deficits the country incurred during the American Revolution or what her brothers-in-law squandered on "gambling, courtesans and elegant clothing" in 1777.

If you go and blow any loot that comes into your hands on unnecessary extravagances, you'll be doing yourself a huge disservice.

The simplicity and clarity of Ball's argument was its strength: "When Adam delved and Eve span, who then was the gentleman?" he asked – a killer line tearing into the opulence and extravagance of a Church whose economic power was huge: it owned a third of the country's land.