Sentence examples for took extravagant from inspiring English sources

Her Jan . 28debut in the Rondo Alla Zingarese of "Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet" — in a role choreographed by Balanchine for Suzanne Farrell — was one of the season's special events; she took extravagant Romany choreography that, in lesser hands, can look crudely flamboyant and illumined it musically.

Bisaillon took extravagant hunting trips to South America, maintained a penthouse party suite on the top floor of one of Montreal's most expensive hotels and built himself a C$1 million retreat in the posh Quebec lake resort town of Roberval.

Unknown but will not be paying top dollar or taking extravagant gambles.

In this troubled state, they don't think about taking extravagant vacations, or buying new houses or fancy new cars.

The film "is rather like Norman Bates, that nervous pretty boy with mommy issues and a bobbing Adam's apple, in that it too takes extravagant liberties with the dead," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times in November.

"Hitchcock," by contrast, is rather like Norman Bates, that nervous pretty boy with mommy issues and a bobbing Adam's apple, in that it too takes extravagant liberties with the dead.

On Friday, the US supreme court agreed to hear a case in which a former elected official, convicted of taking extravagant gifts to influence policy, now argues that because he failed to deliver on his promises to the person trying to corrupt him, he isn't guilty of corruption.

They've taken extravagant dares from their audience, and a crowd always surrounds Justin and his ubiquitous camera.

This elegant suite takes extravagant living to a whole new level with features like a private gym and terrace.

We took more extravagant vacations.

There was an uncomfortably self-satisfied air on the first night as big-name Scottish writers like Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall Smith took more extravagant bows than their musical collaborators.