Sentence examples for outrageous take from inspiring English sources

AS THE famous, the glamorous and the downright outrageous take their seats on March 24th for Hollywood's annual orgy of self-congratulation, there will be less backslapping than usual.

With JJ Abrams's Star Wars looking likely to tone down the loopier aspects of George Lucas's space opera saga, there's surely room for a hyperstylised, knowingly outrageous take on the planetary romance genre.

No one knows who won the MTV Music Video Awards the next day, only that somebody did something outrageous (take a bow, Miley Cyrus).

McKellen does some outrageous takes directly into camera – like Olivier, in fact – and he may even have borrowed from Ian Richardson in TV's House of Cards, although the effect is terrifically personal and distinctive.

In this new era of tightening regulations, being outrageous took on a different air.

They can pay the outrageous tax; take the position on tax returns that the wash sale rule isn't triggered; or write to Congress demanding relief from this ridiculous trap.

The upshot is a thesis you're unlikely to hear floated on "The O'Reilly Factor" anytime soon: The liberal media doesn't recognise the existence of moderate, reasonable conservatives which means outrageous blowhards take centre stage.There may also be something of a feedback-loop effect here.

To be effectively outrageous onstage takes bravery; but to be effectively grotesque takes a kind of genius that pushes the antics beyond mayhem to meaning.

Whenever anything outrageous is taking place [in his Oxford years], he's a bit cowed by it".

But most credited Mr Hunter with the spark and the ideas, some of them outrageous, that took a mixed bag of hippies, whale-savers, Quakers and disarmers out of a Vancouver basement and into the headlines of the world's press.Mr Hunter joined the protesters in 1969, when he was a columnist for the Vancouver Sun.

On Monday, Hong Kong appeals court judge Anthony Rogers called tycoon Richard Li's $2 billion bid to privatize the telecom giant "outrageous," particularly taking note of Li and China Netcom's plan to pay themselves a cash dividend up to $2.4 billion from PCCW after they take it private.