Sentence examples for outrageous excess from inspiring English sources
Designed by the unlikely combination of a French Socialist, Jacques Delors, and a British Conservative, Lord Cockfield, the project was based on 290-odd directives--which sounds like an outrageous excess of Brussels red tape but is not.
Dubai United Arab Emirates Dubai's pretty much a byword for outrageous excess these days, possessing the world's tallest building, a fleet of police supercars, and one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
That's partly because the recommendation applies only to the public sector when the really outrageous excesses apply in the private sector.
It was on these annual visits that I came to understand that Fox News, for all its outrageous excesses, is a low-level inflammation-delivery system, the real effects of which are felt only over time.
Notwithstanding the above, much enjoyment can be had by "riffing", or gently poking fun at, the more outrageous excesses of the average Hollywood blockbuster.
He keeps the repartee nicely outrageous, the excess wretched and the details wickedly delectable.
It is not the excesses, outrageous though some of them are.
Outrageous executive pay and excesses in financial markets also play a big part.
Clinton was able to transcend the problem by seeming larger than life, a public speaker who annually made a fairly pedestrian laundry list of proposals into the grand theatre of his State of the Union messages; his hungers and excesses were outrageous to some, but they were also a political weapon — they made everything he said seem more important.
Therefore, he implied that Barreto's own conduct was outrageous because of his excesses in collecting taxes and his habit of paying public funds to licentious women.
Is there any measurable way to prove what many of us feel in our gut, that 2007 was the year when the excesses of our most reliably outrageous personalities finally started to feel, well, excessive?
