Sentence examples for runaway luxury from inspiring English sources
Last year's runaway luxury spending.
Once again, the Domino Sugar factory is rising to symbolize another crucial moment in New York City's history: the tension between runaway luxury development and affordable housing for the middle class.
Blame shrinking competition, the creeping cost of technological advances (scratch-resistant, anti-reflective coating anyone?) and the runaway prices of luxury goods: designer eyeglasses that cost $500 and up no longer shock.
For years now, people have been complaining about how the Saudi government is ruining Mecca with its obnoxious renovation: luxury hotels and runaway consumerism, that awful clock-tower looming over the Ka'ba and the destruction of numerous holy sites to build malls and public toilets.
In this dog-eat-dog world Derek is, in turn, heeding his own master, Stuart Sam Spruelll), a dangerous bully in a casual beige suit and black luxury car who wants the runaways for his own purposes.
Where "Babel," which earned the band a Grammy Award for album of the year, was largely written on the road while the band toured its neo-folk debut album "Sigh No More," the runaway success of "Babel" afforded the group the luxury of time off and a blank canvas.
By contrast, "The Book of Mormon" and "The Producers," to cite two other runaway successes of the new millennium, helped make popular musicals a luxury goods item for the expense account set.
But unlike those other Web 2.0 behemoths who have the luxury of waiting out revenue challenges as their user base surges and the economy recovers, YouTube's runaway success meant extremely high bandwidth costs and legal worries early on.
