(a.) Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man.
(n.) One who is confined to no general rule.
(n.) Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
(2) I want to pick them by the armful and fill the house with their extravagance and glamour.
(3) While his more eminent predecessors, Gerald Durrell and John Aspinall, established that displaying wild creatures may occasionally be compatible with respect for them, zoos around the world have also sanitised – with extravagant claims about conservation, breeding programmes and species reintroduction – the essentially unchanged business of showing caged animals for cash.
(4) There is the rigorously landscaped swimming pool complex designed by a young (now disbanded) practice called Paisajes Emergentes, and the extravagantly roofed sports arena designed by Mazzanti, again, and Felipe Mesa.
(5) Apparently the sea wall is a favourite base for extravagant jumps into the water, but not at low tide.
(6) The author contrasts the creative urbane Goethe with the unempathic, self-absorbed, and extravagant Goethe.
(7) After years of on-and-off e-dating, in which I've met 150-200 women, fallen in love with one and invented extravagant excuses to extricate myself from awkward encounters with countless others, you might think I'd be tired of it all.
(8) He also sometimes falls, as in his account of Frederick Valk’s Othello, into extravagant hyperbole.
(9) The Candy brothers, the property duo behind the scheme, like to claim that the address sits at a sort of super-rich intersection – turn one way, and you look down Sloane Street, Europe's most extravagant shopping street.
(10) It will be Australian consumers who’ll pay extra to make sure that Tony Abbott can deliver this paid parental leave scheme which not only do I think is extravagant, I can tell you most of his own members seem to think is extravagant.” Abbott has been forced to defend his scheme multiple times since announcing the policy in 2010 and responded to reports in February the Commission of Audit had found it too expensive.
(11) I like a big, extravagant frock, but I wanted to feel like me.
(12) Mrs Tsvangirai was widely respected in Zimbabwe as the antithesis of President Robert Mugabe's extravagant and free-spending wife, Grace, who showed little concern for the plight of the many hungry and poor in her country.
(13) The booming Bollywood music beckoned a stream of families, wearing ornate saris and sharp kurtas, fragrant plates of samosa chaat in hand, toward the stage, replete with an extravagant display of lights and visuals.
(14) There is a small, but significant, increase in frequency during hypercapnia in vagotomized, anesthetized animals, indicating involvement of an extravagal mechanism in the response.
(15) She told Murdoch's biographer , Michael Wolff, that Murdoch was worried about the extravagance of buying a new yacht.
(16) Fleming was intrigued by Engelhard's extravagant lifestyle and when he wrote Goldfinger , published in 1959, he based its eponymous villain on him.
(17) Antony and Cleopatra is in many ways a reflection of Jacobean court extravagance and decadence.
(18) It would honour the record of CND and scrap Trident missiles, submarines, aircraft carriers, manned fighters and the extravagant paraphernalia of the arms lobby.
(19) Up close, even the supposedly most extravagant new BBC properties are less lavish than you might think.
(20) The temporal rearrangements of the respiratory cycle seem to be due to the vagal effects, while the extravagal influences, probably the reflexes from the stretch receptors of intercostal muscles, are responsible for changes of the volume component in the relations characterizing the mechanism of cessation of inspiration.
Lustrous
Definition:
(a.) Bright; shining; luminous.
Example Sentences:
(1) This lustrous amber oil looks lovely and is commended for its "subtle", more neutral flavour.
(2) There’s the way my character Henman fist-pumps when successfully finishing a date (not a euphemism), and the way he looks just like me, except with a better tan, less-British teeth and the ability to suddenly sprout lustrous golden locks like Kid Rock dipped head-first in a bath of Timotei and lemon juice: The guy out of Hanson is ageing well... On a more serious note, there’s the way you can choose to be gay or straight: a feature introduced without fuss, but which makes Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood more progressive than the way most (not all, thankfully) traditional games address sexuality, if they do at all.
(3) They’re in the business of selling you the $11 beer to you once you’re inside the stadium.” Today’s athletic amphitheatres last just a few decades before being thrown away for more lustrous replacements.
(4) As well as earning him lustrous reviews, it meant that Hytner never need worry about money again.
(5) Shot in a lustrous but melancholy monochrome entirely appropriate to the movie's sombre tone, Nebraska is less about a quest for a million bucks than a search for meaning late in life, and the sadness that comes when we realise there isn't any.
(6) Smooth and lustrous surfaces were obtained with finishing discs, in contrast to techniques using other finishing instruments.
(7) Evaluation of the patient's intestinal abnormality was aided by the use of magnifying endoscopy; the duodenal villi were lustrous and swollen and of various size, a pattern different from that previously described for intestinal lymphangiectasia.
(8) With Gordon Willis’s gorgeous cinematography, Manhattan is rendered in a lustrous, glowing monochrome, fetishing the city, erasing its poverty and crime – then at its notorious zenith – and making of it a shangri la of sophistication.
(9) Whatever, its omnipresence on all Drake’s albums carves out a whole lustrous landscape that has seldom been touched and certainly never bettered by his singer-songwriter peers.
(10) Geopolitical pageantry of this sort burnishes the already lustrous advantages of incumbency.
(11) Dead straight hair can be grown into thick, lustrous braids that stretch to the middle of the back, even to the waist.
(12) It is a mystery as baffling as what Dorian Grey-like bargain Bateman, 45, struck to maintain such lustrous hair (seriously, it puts Kate Middleton’s to shame) that a man who has been acting since the age of 13 (in US sitcoms Silver Spoons and Valerie ), who was, by his own admission, a “cut-up” in his 20s with a taste for alcohol and drugs, but is now, via some classy supporting roles ( Juno , Up in the Air ), a bona-fide comedy leading man ( Horrible Bosses , Identity Thief ) can be so darned nice.
(13) The internal surface of a normal duct was lustrous and smooth.
(14) Many local shoppers have turned toward more lustrous megamalls in outer suburbs.
(15) It is possible to endoscopically diagnose lymphangiomas because they are lustrous and smooth on the surface, pliable on compression, and half of them have a stalk or a waist at the base.
(16) A new dynamic visual illusion is reported: contrast reversal of a horizontal and vertical plaid pattern (produced by adding two orthogonal sinusoidal gratings) causes the pattern to appear as an array of lustrous diamonds, cut by sharp lines into a diagonal lattice structure.
(17) Pretty much every scene is filmed in lustrous slow-motion, from a coin toss to the Blinders hacking away at rivals with their razor-fronted caps.
(18) Although actually many millions of miles apart, the two planets will appear close together and both are shining lustrously.
(19) Linda Winer, Newsday : Menzel doesn't have much vocal variety, but that sound – soft, medium, loud – has a lustrous integrity.