Sentence examples for outrageous compared from inspiring English sources

Prices were high (about $70 for three courses, wine, tax and tip) but hardly outrageous, compared with the competition across the Hudson.

Because the laws are so outrageous compared to neighboring cities, the way to avoid this situation in the future is to change the tax permanently.

People think I am outrageous, but compared to Felix I am feeble.

"The price of an MBA today looks outrageous when compared with similar qualifications in other disciplines" said Mr Cabrera.

Sean Heiner, flight program director at Southern Utah University — which contracts with Upper Limit — said the price was "not outrageous" when compared with military spending on pilot training.

I remember thinking how outrageous to compare God's own game with the devil's dandruff and I remember thinking how right he was.

For example, when Koreans want to signal something outrageous, they compare it to "an unmarried woman seeking an excuse to give birth".

Night after night we shared tales of Quasimodo, the walking pigeon, or Achilles, the tortoise (stumbling off "at top speed" to eat wild strawberries in private), Margo insisting that "a change is as good as a feast" and, funniest of all, the outrageous Larry – comparing his mother's new bathing costume to "a badly skinned whale" and christening Gerald's handmade boat the Bootle Bumtrinket.

Owners of single-family Manhattan town houses who always thought their taxes were an outrageous bargain, when compared with the suburbs, can no longer say that.

"They're minimally wrong compared to the outrageous conduct that was shown in these other cases," Sheldon Sorosky, one of Mr. Blagojevich's lawyers, said of his crimes.

That the prose is as tedious as the stories are outrageous mattered not at all, compared with such lovingly rendered degradation.