Sentence examples for was extravagant for from inspiring English sources

According to Brothwell, Lindow Man is one of the most complex examples of "overkill" in a bog body, and possibly has ritual meaning as it was "extravagant" for a straightforward murder.

This prediction is extravagant for my taste, but foreign policy is no stranger to the power of idiocy.

Eliot was extravagant in his praise for John Davidson's "Thirty Bob a Week", a plausible wellspring for the melancholy chambermaids and commuters that stalk his early work.

Her love for me was extravagant and sloppy.

The offers are extravagant, even for people who willingly shelled out thousands of dollars for a music festival that never existed.

His wife's welcome is extravagant, fit for a god.

Rather than seeking more money — particularly since critics say that $2.5 billion is extravagant enough for what is essentially a commuter rail station — the authority has capped the budget.

Although Mr. Clapton had lent his face to saturation advertising by the tour's sponsor, Lexus, ticket prices (up to $85) were extravagant, particularly for a show with minimal stage effects and a cover band, Distant Cousins, as the opening act.

The established look is extravagant wigs, rouge for the boys and the girls, tea-towels for keffiyehs, gender bending, Bowie's Ashes To Ashes video.

Although monolithic stone columns are used, they are extravagant to produce for large structures, and columns are usually built up of a series of cylindrical blocks called drums.

This is extravagant in WBAN for human monitoring.