| The extravagance of the court and the high cost of war absorbed all of France's resources and efforts to rationalize the tax system failed. |
| One of our neighbors, good old Deacon Winship, often animadverted upon the luxury and extravagance of the times. |
| Many men lampooned her for her extravagance, but women, by contrast, envied her. |
| The big unknown for hotels and restaurants that had factored corporate extravagance into their plans is how much spending will be reined in. |
| The visual vocabulary of the Baroque and rococo, which the Europeans brought to Brazil, also lends itself to sublime extravagance. |
| For a prime minister who fought the election on improving public services, such increases look like thoughtless and tactless extravagance. |
