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    extravagance


    1. There is no limit to the foolishness and extravagance that accompanies them


    2. They are desperate, and act with the folly and extravagance of desperate men, who must either starve, or frighten their masters into an immediate compliance with their demands


    3. No price can be found in the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of the sixteenth century, which approaches to the extravagance of these


    4. In the progress of wealth and improvement, the real price of the first may rise to any degree of extravagance, and seems not to be limited by any certain boundary


    5. } purchased a surmullet at the price of eight thousand sestertii, equal to about sixty-six pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence of our present money ; the extravagance of those prices, how much soever it may surprise us, is apt, notwithstanding, to appear to us about one third less than it really was


    6. What occasioned the extravagance of those high prices was, not so much the abundance of silver, as the abundance of labour and subsistence, of which those Romans had the disposal, beyond what was necessary for their own use


    7. This is a sumptuary law, too, restraining the luxury and extravagance of the poor


    8. This frugality and good conduct, however, is, upon most occasions, it appears from experience, sufficient to compensate, not only the private prodigality and misconduct of individuals, but the public extravagance of government


    9. The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived,is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things towards improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration


    10. When we compare, therefore, the state of a nation at two different periods, and find that the annual produce of its land and labour is evidently greater at the latter than at the former, that its lands are better cultivated, its manufactures more numerous and more flourishing, and its trade more extensive; we may be assured that its capital must have increased during the interval between those two periods, and that more must have been added to it by the good conduct of some, than had been taken from it either by the private misconduct of others, or by the public extravagance of government

    11. If their own extravagance does not ruin the state


    12. Like what are called the fundamental laws of some monarchies, they might frequently hinder the security of thousands from being endangered by the caprice or extravagance of one man


    13. All other moveable goods, he says, are of so consumable a nature, that the wealth which consists in them cannot be much depended on; and a nation which abounds in them one year may, without any exportation, but merely by their own waste and extravagance, be in great want of them the next


    14. hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does


    15. They are not only very grievous occasional taxes, but they contribute to establish perpetual taxes, of the same kind, still more grievous ; the ruinous taxes of private luxury and extravagance


    16. The knavery and extravagance of their stock-jobbing projects are sufficiently known, and the explication of them would be foreign to the present subject


    17. perhaps, natural to monarchies ; and, in time of war, has constantly acted with all the thoughtless extravagance that democracies are apt to fall into, could be safely trusted with the management of such a project, must at least be a good deal more doubtful


    18. The republic of Florence was several times obliged to pay the debt into which their extravagance had involved him


    19. But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does


    20. Under the system of funding, the frugality and industry of private people can more easily repair the breaches which the waste and extravagance of government may occasionally make in the general capital of the society

    21. To the honour of our present system of taxation, indeed, it has hitherto given so little embarrassment to industry, that, during the course even of the most expensive wars, the frugality and good conduct of individuals seem to have been able, by saving and accumulation, to repair all the breaches which the waste and extravagance of government had made in the general capital of the society


    22. Adem had been disgusted at the extravagance of the feasts provided to them in their first weeks at Nordhel, and he had insisted that the cooks cater for a much smaller stomach


    23. What most people viewed as a necessity, had become for him an unnecessary extravagance


    24. Intellectually, I could appreciate the delicacy of the flavoring, the extravagance of lump crabmeat with just enough luscious breading to hold it together


    25. And yet it was so clearly mine, made for no one but me, so obviously personal that the extravagance of it was less significant than the intimate intention


    26. Oil: Extravagance in use; the anointing; prosperity; complete joy; love one to another; grace; Holy Spirit


    27. A few years ago the Queensland government couldn’t afford $25,000 for an Aboriginal volunteer group desperate to buy a ute so they could patrol the town at night, but spent two million dollars on a fireworks display that barely animated a populace sated with extravagance


    28. He mentally cursed the vainglorious extravagance which had put him in debt to the money-lenders and made him a pawn of scheming politicians


    29. Extravagance would have saved us all this trouble, she thought


    30. range and extravagance of the homes and properties that

    31. It is a gift of supreme extravagance that God has secreted deep within


    32. ―It says here that the next pope was Leo X, who indeed indulged in papal extravagance, attending banquets and carnivals and bull-fights


    33. His apartment was lavish with understated extravagance but still very much the domain of a highly eligible single male


    34. And what is man now?� A fallen creature, a ruin, a being that shows the marks of corruption all over, his heart like Nebuchadnezzar, degraded and earthly, looking down and not up,�his affections like a household in disorder, calling no man master, all extravagance and confusion,�his understanding like a lamp flickering in the socket, impotent to guide him, not knowing good from evil,�his will like a rudderless ship, tossed to and fro by every desire, and constant only in choosing any way rather than God's


    35. How man tends to imagine himself as the tracking object on others’ radars to justify his extravagance as but the dictates of his life’s circumstances! But then man fails to realize that but for a sleaze or a scandal, the world at large never bothers about him, whatever be his station, and so fails to fashion a purse-supportive lifestyle and allows himself to dabble with the delusions of grandeur


    36. Extravagance is big in wasteful things that has no earthly use except wealth for pride


    37. Death’s power was the dark to the light of life, tricks were tricks that Byron had shown them in the past, admittedly the extravagance and scale of some still inspired wonder, but they had been given as gifts


    38. Love is not for profit, for extravagance, for obsessive accumulation, for special interest, Corporatnism's rights, Big Pharma, insurance vultures, pollution of the commons, de-liberation of the people, the prison-industrial-legislative complex, or the government-corporate-military alliance


    39. People's expectations are extravagant, and that extravagance strangles millions


    40. Thus, when one does not get what one feels they have title to, a right to have a better life than one's parents, a right to material excess, energy extravagance, and consumer ignorance, then one can feel victimized, victimized by one's own sense of entitlement, when entitlements, so perceived, are not met nor granted

    41. “What is this arrogant indifference of theirs, not caring if they leave young Eartheart a plundered and depleted zombie, where the soulless wander in search of the last extravagance and then hide in their virtual caves living in the shadow world?” In the Mirror Space of INUverse, Revoliton and I'munity came mynd to mynd and will to will


    42. The extravagance was amazing


    43. Unless you can show you have approval from the client for such extravagance


    44. What is your bill for postage now? Johanna, I am sure, thinks you are sending me instalments of manuscript, and marvels at the extravagance that shuts it up in envelopes instead of leaving its ends open and tying it up with string


    45. It would be an unpardonable extravagance, she said


    46. "Pay the due thereof (its Zakat, according to Allah's Orders 1/10th or 1/20th) on the day of its harvest, and waste not by extravagance


    47. magnanimity was king-size and those who were loyal enjoyed the extravagance of his


    48. Maybe she could spend some more of her advance money on a new one? It was a tool of her trade after all so it was hardly an extravagance


    49. he acquires habits of extravagance instead of economy; habits of wasting his resources, physical, mental,


    50. bought the paper cutter, which the reasoning mind would have called an extravagance





































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    Synonyms for "extravagance"

    extravagance high life highlife lavishness prodigality profligacy extravagancy imprudence wastefulness

    "extravagance" definitions

    the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth


    the trait of spending extravagantly


    excessive spending