Examples of extravagance

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Theirs may be reasonable reactions to various institutionalised extravagances of interpretation.
What the public wanted was not economy, practicality, money-saving and engineering quality but extravagance and swagger.
Though his extravagance was well rewarded, it must have placed a severe strain on the house's finances.
Furthermore, charges of extravagance were difficult to sustain.
The work depicts a once well-to-do family's eviction from their ancestral estate, because of the father's gambling debts and, doubtless, general extravagance.
The 'extravagance' of the gentry was by the 1780s a source of increasing comment, and cited by some as cause of higher turnover of estates.
No less significant has been the attention paid to its cover, whose extravagance and complexity amply and consciously reflect its music.
The polemical extravagance of the feminist millennium has not as yet received an appreciative commentary: indeed, the opposite has rather been the case.
In summary, application of the resilience paradigm toward multipronged preventive interventions may be questioned on the grounds of fiscal extravagance.
However, the experimental justification for this belief is not founded on an extravagance of data.
The first of these examples is narratorial description, which more readily accommodates linguistic extravagance.
Technological or scientific extravagance prevented a reasonable use of the available capital outlay.
In short, thriftiness was a virtue and extravagance disapproved ; in other words, material restrictions were internalised.
The period was notable for the extravagance of male as well as female dress.
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