Sentence examples for wasteful display from inspiring English sources

Perhaps, but it still felt a wasteful display rather than one where Chelsea had been cheated of a result.

"The North must get its senses back," Mr. Lee said this week, discussing what he considered to be a wasteful display of fireworks in the impoverished country on April 15, a national holiday in North Korea.

But it is apparently de rigeur for new startups to blow a chunk of their early-stage funding on a party to mark their arrival.As with peacock feathers or elaborate mating dances, the aim of this is to put on a showy, wasteful display of resources to prove one's evolutionary fitness for the rigours ahead.

"The North must get its senses back," "Can't they realize how much corn they can buy with the money they spent on the fireworks?" Mr. Lee said this past week, criticizing what he considered a wasteful display of fireworks in the impoverished country to mark the April 15 holiday in North Korea.

The Portuguese looked angry and rattled in his post-match duties and blamed another wasteful display for the loss.

In more general terms, because acting altruistically may confer prestige on the performing individual, altruism can substitute for other means of obtaining prestige, such as overt aggression or wasteful display.

Costly signalling theory explains seemingly wasteful foraging displays.

And there's Carmen Rad, an industrial designer and printer who has created a completely biodegradable product line so that traditionally wasteful large-format display printing jobs leave little to no waste for the landfill.

"Boittin expressed astonishment at the level of 'narcissism' and wasteful contemplation currently on display in Washington," the report reads, referring to foot-dragging from the White House on signing a new development agreement with the World Trade Organization.

It's about 1100×600, a size that would be right at home on a living room TV, but is incredibly wasteful on a high-resolution display.

Polarizers, which filter out light coming from different angles to make it compatible with the liquid-crystal shutters found in these displays, are the most wasteful component.