The audiences crave a taste of Broadway extravagance, as do the actors, the set builders and even the ushers.
Boasting rare elements such as black truffles and a fried quail egg, some folks would give up their first born child for a taste of such extravagance.
Galina was spoiled by a father who himself had a taste for extravagance (he had a huge collection of foreign cars).
But there's more -- the Barcelonans' inborn taste for extravagance.
The Romans brought a taste for extravagance, as Apicius's De Re Coquinaria shows with its recipes for boiled ostrich and flamingo.
They were extremely conservative in their political and cultural attitudes; in artistic taste, their native love of extravagance (which the Chinese viewed as barbarous) was tempered, ironically, by an equally strong conservative propensity.
They were extremely conservative in their political and cultural attitudes; in artistic taste, their native love of extravagance (which the Chinese viewed as barbarous) was tempered, ironically, by an equally strong conservatism.
"Selling Spelling Manor" is no tragedy, though, unless you consider American taste pitched at this level of extravagance — resulting in a house that looks like the tasting room of a corporate winery but happens to be the size of an airplane hangar — to be tragic.
If they have as little regard to proportion and perspective, when they paint the dome, which is not yet finished, this chapel will, in my opinion, remain a monument of ill taste and extravagance.
Consumers business and leisure alike have gotten a taste of the privacy, service and extravagance of private dining, and they want seconds.
