Sentence examples for sheer extravagance from inspiring English sources
Is this innovation or sheer extravagance?
Even American eyes are starting to pop at the sheer extravagance of executive pay.
The virtue of the atlas conceived by Johannes Klencke was, through sheer extravagance, to ennoble something that was actually increasingly universal.
It helps if you have a cool twenty-seven thousand dollars to spare, for then you get a share of the Balmoral Suite: 2,249 square feet of what the brochure describes as "sheer extravagance," including a dining area for eight twoo interactive plasma-screen tvs; your own exercise equipment; and (the least they could do, really) "a fully stocked bar".
This leads to some funny observations you might not find in a similar tale about young people in, say, the South Dakota fracking scene: "She'd get this pinched look on her face, as if the sheer extravagance of Proust's prose was morally objectionable, as if there were children in Africa who could have better used those excess words".
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As Ed Gorman, former F1 Correspondent for The Times wrote, The sheer roaring, full-throated extravagance of the V8s was enough to send a shiver through my spine every time I heard them close up.
Not art for art's sake, perhaps: but extravagance for the sheer joy of extravagance.
One thing I do miss now, though, is movies like Cleopatra that, thanks to their sheer misconceived artistic awfulness, in combination with some suicidally reckless extravagance in the budgetary realm, had the capacity to bring a major studio perilously near to bankruptcy and ruin.
And the film's visual extravagance somehow conveys its heroine's loneliness as well as the sheer fun of aristocratic life.
