Utiliser "extravagance" dans une phrase

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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30. range and extravagance of the homes and properties that

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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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42. The extravagance was amazing

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

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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

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45. It would be an unpardonable extravagance, she said

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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

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

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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

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

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

51. What is your greatest extravagance? My rings, I dependably wear an eternity band given to me by Josh and Cam, and basically, saying that I'll always remember them, and they will always be there for me, and me for them

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52. She sabotaged herself in so many ways… trying to kill herself; until she finally succeeded in getting the driver of her limo so drunk, and egged him on to outrace the paparazzi; so they would crash, and she would die… and she would not have to face the ugly truths of her own obscenely wealthy extravagance, wasting millions of dollars on her own narcissism, which could have fed millions of these poor starving children she was supposed to be so worried about

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53. This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community-the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer, doing for them better than_ they would or could do for themselves

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54. We are met here with the difficulty of determining what are moderate sums to leave to members of the family; what is modest, unostentatious living; what is the test of extravagance

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55. If any family be chiefly known for display, for extravagance in home, table, or equipage, for enormous sums ostentatiously spent in any form upon itself-if these be its chief distinctions, we have no difficulty in estimating its nature or culture

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56. I could see there was something of the dandy about him, as if he had found his grail early in life and had spent his time merely accentuating that to which he was born, his doubtless swagger an eccentricity, an extravagance, which only a life of luxury could afford

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57. And as students, for fear of having their work called by one or other of these dread terms, are inclined to rush into any new extravagance that comes along, some inquiry as to their meaning will not be out of place before we pass into the chapters dealing with academic study

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58. They teach that God’s 'Fatherhood, was not of the nature of the demoralised fatherhood of the modern world; where the leading notion, on the part of bad children, seems to be that it is the part of a good parent to bear patiently any excess of rebellion or extravagance, to forgive it universally, and even to find means for these excesses, such a line of action being considered specially 'paternal

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59. Michael Jackson's postmodern extravagance and vanity most probably triggered his mental imbalance, driven by the strong complex that he was black and not white

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60. Like everything else in these romances, it is a gross exaggeration of the real sentiment of chivalry, but its peculiar extravagance is probably due to the influence of those masters of hyperbole, the Provencal poets

61. By keeping Dulcinea in the background, and making her a vague shadowy being of whose very existence we are left in doubt, he invests Don Quixote's worship of her virtues and charms with an additional extravagance, and gives still more point to the caricature of the sentiment and language of the romances

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62. Jo frowned upon that piece of extravagance, and asked why he didn't buy a frail of dated, a cask of raisins, and a bag of almonds, and be done with it? Whereat Mr

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63. "As I had the honour of putting it to your husband," said the chemist, "with regard to this poor Yanoda who has run away, you will find yourself, thanks to his extravagance, in the possession of one of the most comfortable houses of Yonville

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64. The cure marvelled at this humour, although Emma's religion, he thought, might, from its fervour, end by touching on heresy, extravagance

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65. This is not the extravagance of a mixed metaphor

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66. He imagined, and calmly could he imagine it, that her extravagance, and consequent distress, had obliged her to dispose of it for some immediate relief

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67. And there was unheard-of extravagance in the larder

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68. It was felt to be a reckless extravagance

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69. Real cooked dinner was considered great extravagance

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70. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at least its offspring, necessity, had required to be sacrificed

71. But he feels strongly the unreality of their writings; he is protesting against the degeneracy of poetry in his own day as we might protest against the want of serious purpose in modern fiction, against the unseemliness or extravagance of some of our poets or novelists, against the time-serving of preachers or public writers, against the regardlessness of truth which to the eye of the philosopher seems to characterize the greater part of the world

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72. When again in private life we see a whole family one by one dropping into the grave under the Ate of some inherited malady, and the parents perhaps surviving them, do our minds ever go back silently to that day twenty-five or thirty years before on which under the fairest auspices, amid the rejoicings of friends and acquaintances, a bride and bridegroom joined hands with one another? In making such a reflection we are not opposing physical considerations to moral, but moral to physical; we are seeking to make the voice of reason heard, which drives us back from the extravagance of sentimentalism on common sense

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73. And in oligarchical States, from the general spread of carelessness and extravagance, men of good family have often been reduced to beggary?

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74. was vexed, not that she, by this means, fed his son's extravagance, but

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75. extravagance in White House

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76. " In spite of the gross flattery and coarseness of this address, Madame Danglars could not forbear gazing with considerable interest on a man capable of expending six millions in twelve months, and who had selected Paris for the scene of his princely extravagance

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77. than the cheaper Elfric, which was a wasteful extravagance; but this was not the moment to say so

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78. His face darkened with anger, and she regretted the extravagance of her words

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79. It was a special form of the great man's extravagance, sanctioned by a moral intention, big enough to flatter his vanity

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80. Charles Gould on going out passed his hand over his forehead as if to disperse the mists of an oppressive dream, whose grotesque extravagance leaves behind a subtle sense of bodily danger and intellectual decay

81. Such a wedding in these hard times seemed to Scarlett an extravagance on a par with the tombstones of the Tarleton boys and she felt the same irritation and lack of sympathy she had felt as she stood in the Tarleton burying ground

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82. some soft little person and scolding her lovingly for her stupidity and extravagance

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83. But it was in the nature of fathers, Fred knew, to bully one about expenses: there was always a little storm over his extravagance if he had to disclose a debt, and Fred disliked bad weather within doors

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84. Garth from the consequence of what he would call encouraging extravagance and deceit

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85. "And might have left his property so respectable, to them that's never been used to extravagance or unsteadiness in no manner of way—and not so poor but what they could have saved every penny and made more of it

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86. How he came to fall into this extravagance would perhaps be matter of wonderment to himself on the morrow; but before dinner something in the state of the country, a slight pause in the harvest before the Far Dips were cut, the stories about the new King and the numerous handbills on the walls, had seemed to warrant a little recklessness

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87. "I hope that you will not continue this extravagance, Madame Grandet

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88. d'Aubrion's extravagance, he had gone out to the Indies to sell the

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89. The widespread difficulties of the utilities were due not to any weakness in the light and power business, but to the reckless extravagance of its financing methods

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90. Before you chastise her for her extravagance, ask yourself these questions: Have you funded your 401(k) and opened additional investment accounts? Are you fully aware of where your spending money is going? And have you made a strategic decision to spend on what you love? Very few people decide how they want to spend their money up front