His courtesy was somewhat extravagant.
"We must radically alter this slightly too extravagant image of cultural policy, to awaken deep within all our regions an attachment to culture and the promotion of culture as a lever of economic attractiveness for our country," she said.
There are two slightly less extravagant options: the Earl of Sandwich room that has as its centrepiece an impressive slipper bath, and the Duke of York room with original features including a plasterwork ceiling with a raised fleur de lys pattern.
At £50, or a bit less than $100, they're slightly expensive, but not extravagant.
His engagement in its rites, his small dinner at the fair's end every year, for which some leading European publishers stayed late, his charm and mode of dress, which fit right in here and didn't feel extravagant or slightly garish as it could in New York, even his contraband Cuban cigars all added to Homer's stature in the halls and watering holes of Frankfurt.
Tall, courteous and with a slightly apologetic manner, he uses extravagant hand gestures and is prone to be hesitant or inconclusive in his answers to questions, always searching for le mot juste, and employing ellipses (his favourite punctuation mark), as many of his characters do.
For a slightly less expensive but no less extravagant voyage, when the new Queen Mary 2 launches in Jan . 2004it will include such novelties as the first ever floating Canyon Ranch spa, a Todd English restaurant and the world's only onboard planetarium.
It has also earned Mr. Sunkara, now a ripe 23, extravagant praise from members of a (slightly) older guard who see his success as heartening sign that the socialist "brand" — to use a word he throws around with un-self-conscious ease — hasn't been totally killed off by Tea Party invective.
It is extravagant, clever, open-minded and ever so slightly melodramatic.
For a child whose parents are about to take her and her friends to an extravagant indoor playground, this misfortune seems only slightly less grave than Gregor Samsa's wake-up discovery that he'd become a huge bug.
