The argument among the friends, about the white-on-white canvas for which one of them has paid an exorbitant sum, is really a debate about the way that people value, or overvalue, the attributes, relations, and received ideas in which they invest their identity.
Windfall tax revenue from housing booms fuelled by cheap foreign credit made the public finances of Ireland and Spain look sound until recession (and, in Ireland's case, the terrifying cost of bank bail-outs) caused public debt to explode.Some believe the exorbitant privilege is really a curse that lures the reserve-currency country into too much borrowing or printing too much money.
I knew right then and there that I had to have it, but I wasn't really willing to pay the exorbitant amount for an unlocked version from Europe.
"If they start saying, 'Well, I think a $25 overdraft fee is exorbitant,' there's really not any appeal for that," he said.
In September, South Sudan joined a club where the fees are exorbitant and no one really wants to be a member.
It also has really shitty traffic, mediocre pizza, and exorbitant rents.
The note is a work of self-parody, really, and probably hints at Hemingway's exorbitant drinking.
Perhaps it was the exorbitant cost, I'm not really certain.
All this exorbitant ejaculation begs questions like "Are the ladies really swallowing it all?" and "Is there any chance it's fake and they're just drinking look-alike cum?" Apparently not.
But some researchers go so far as to wonder why, aside from entertainment and cultural events, people really need to be in Manhattan, with its clogged traffic and exorbitant prices.
