| 词汇 | example_english_extravagant |
| 释义 | Examples of extravagantThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The familiar failures of leadership and examples of extravagant demagoguery are paraded. However, adaptationists, and even optimality theorists, have made no such extravagant claims. The lobby against effeminacy, dandyism, extravagant male attire and crossdressing became powerful and vocal by the late 1820s. To offset this, it is possible that the extravagant endogamy may diminish. After millennia of dead-ends and extravagant promises, we can now see our way to understanding the mechanisms of ageing. Even more were shocked by the expense and the apparently extravagant ways of life from which there seemed to be no escape. However, whilst it should be in the library, individuals might find that £50 for such a slim volume is rather extravagant. Stories associated with the later, aristocratic tides are more extravagant. The end of his reign was a more sober, less colourful time for the arts than his extravagant youth. At his worst, his penchant for hunting, card playing, and drinking makes him appear "idle, dissipated, and extravagant" (119). The extravagant ' ' adornment of the city, which all enjoy in equal degree ' ' overshadows the middle-class comfort of the home. Should the design be warm or cool, dynamic or tranquil, restrained or extravagant, or any of the other meanings that colors can carry? The defendant told the court that he and a friend had to raise money to pay for an extravagant lifestyle. As the rebellion began to founder, he tried to maintain his role by increasingly extravagant promises of the successes his powers would secure. The volume of work on the static-hole problem is so great that comparison with all other work would be a rather extravagant undertaking. Conversely, we might regard the fembot's hypersexualisation as an extravagant bid at organicising the technological, of giving meat to the mechanical. Emotionally, nothing satisfies as much as extravagant or temporarily permitted illicit behavior. Nature is not only extravagant and unruly but potentially lethal. The inputs, outputs, and emotional state would all need to be genetically specified somehow, which is what makes this hypothesis more extravagant than the simpler one above. At frequent intervals throughout the performance, a member of the virtually all-female audience would jump up and, with extravagant fanfare, dance her way to the front to tip the performer. Heightened sensibilities for the future, for the past, and for the expanses of existence may scale down many extravagant desires that are dominated by the perspectives of here and now. The educational changes that have occurred in the last fifteen years may have gone some way to improve standards, but we may have paid an extravagant and dangerous price. However, to jump from this imbalance to the prediction of one single subculture in the world seems extravagant, and as far-fetched as the threat of a monotone, monolingual planet. Elderly people and their caregivers have experienced discrimination in the provision of treatments that are not extravagant, such as hip replacements, cataract surgery, dentistry, or referral to specialists. No one would expect or ask for an extravagant or unreasonable scale of accommodation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole temporary housing scheme is a wasteful and extravagant expenditure of public funds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have spoken at some length about wasteful and extravagant expenditure by local authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it reasonable to expect that these men are likely to embark upon an unreason-able and extravagant administration? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe for a moment that it is going to be extravagant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not admit that in their general administration the guardians who were deposed were extravagant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The extravagant claims which they have made for it will be falsified. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His protest was against extravagant expenditure for unproductive purposes, a very different thing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not wish to use extravagant language about the financial proposals of this scheme, but they are of the most unsound character. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whatever you do in naval matters, leisurely construction is the most fatal and extravagant course. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is an economy which, in my opinion, is very extravagant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nothing is more unfair than to suggest that education authorities are extravagant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is nothing extravagant whatever in this demand. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not proposing anything extravagant or anything which will particularly benefit one party or the other. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When natural gas was first discovered, extravagant forecasts were made about its fantastic cheapness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Again we are encouraging a process, which is certainly happening in my district, of buying land at extravagant prices in order to destroy it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think that there are any grounds for saying that it is unduly extravagant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not regard the citing of such matters as being extravagant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To take an extreme case it may stop land purchase at any extravagant price. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then there was the policy of establishing coaling stations, in connection with which there was a great deal of extravagant expenditure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I forget exactly what was the extravagant example he put forward. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are extravagant with water, and would not like to cut down upon that extravagance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nobody could claim that that was an unfair or extravagant demand. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the claims are to be criticised, it is not because they are too extravagant or too greedy but because they are far too modest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People do not wear false teeth for extravagant reasons: they wear them because they cannot eat. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On the contrary, you deliberately select some for exceptional and extravagant treatment in the distribution. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not wish to say anything offensive of them, but there was no party more extravagant in their expenditure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our opponents delight in overstating our case in this extravagant way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think, in saying that, he paid him an extravagant compliment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A man with such a large income ought to be taxed fairly heavily for the extravagant outlay which the authorities were incurring. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not attracted by the later extravagant idea put forward in the supplementary question. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the other end of the scale we ought to try to avoid stupidly extravagant anomalies in our social security system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His demands become ever larger, always more extravagant, and his promises more and more incredible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is not one word of truth in the wild and extravagant claims which have been made on that point. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My belief does not entail anything very extravagant, and its object is in fact to prevent extravagant losses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Although he speaks, "within our cautious fiscal rules", he is committing himself to increasingly extravagant projections. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If those are extravagant terms, there is something wrong with the way in which people who hold that view have formed their views. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The nation is in grave danger, unless it is careful, of being stupidly extravagant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The housewife has not been allowed to be extravagant with coal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Costs really are rising to an extravagant extent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Provided compensation could be reasonable and not extravagant, it would be to the financial advantage of the nation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have no right to suggest that railway costs may be extravagant in any direction and that economies may be effected. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My noble friends both avoided some of the more extravagant and decorative customs that we have seen in the past on such occasions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They would be unable to have an extravagant lifestyle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not build extravagant hopes on that prospect. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When buildings were falling down all round us in the blitz, extravagant estimates of the likely total damage prevailed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think they are being extravagant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even in this fourth year of the war there are instances of extravagant profits and extravagant charges for services rendered. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At present people are paying extravagant prices for houses because they must have the accommodation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I also confirm that the old system meant that those that were wasteful or extravagant penalised the prudent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think they are extravagant and unsatisfactory and, at most, must be built for an emergency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are all agreed that the cost-plus system is extravagant and wasteful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not making any extravagant demands for compensation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Despite all this, some of our critics are using language as extravagant as it is absurd. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot agree with most of the more extravagant criticisms of it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Because those functions are educational it is hard to say that any of them is wrong or extravagant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then, by rhetoric and extravagant prolixity, counsel so confuses the issue that the jurors do not understand the case and acquit accordingly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us not start to be extravagant because we have run into a good patch. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I understand that one reason given for this extravagant work is that they cannot get the wood to build 150 yards of piling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As a matter of fact, local authorities cannot afford to be extravagant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the more important, then, to project her initial impetus in the most vivid, extreme, extravagant form. A 72-year old lady claimed to be 'a wee bit extravagant' because she had three lights on. Their class origins, too, were rapidly fictionalised, but the notion of a sudden demotic invasion of polite letters can only be called extravagant. Do the entities presupposed by the paradigmatic model for possible worlds (worlds, accessibility, identity) literally exist or are they just extravagant metaphors? His judgement may have failed him, or he may simply have been unable to restrain the canons from making these extravagant claims. At the same time frivolous and extravagant habits have set in, and even rash and extreme tendencies are not unknown. The reason is that the claims that remain become both less extravagant and increasingly difficult to refute. Another training officer at this firm was a married man, less extravagant and more self-disciplined than his counterpart, although lacking his flair. The imaginative content of gossip - comic, extravagant, mischievous or seditious - was a popular commodity. Much of the music is replete with long phrases, extravagant decoration, complex rhythmic simultaneities, and close to athematic writing. The extravagant costume evidently fit more conveniently into their exotic notions of their surroundings. In other words, what techniques did the singers have at their disposal for elaborating and enabling such florid and extravagant vocal practices to take shape? In some instances, clients' requests were seen as extravagant or inappropriate. Deputies are seen as people who receive extravagant salaries and benefits but who do no work. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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