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Перевод: extravagant
[прилагательное] расточительный; сумасбродный; нелепый; экстравагантный; непомерный; крайний; блуждающий
Тезаурус:
- The apartment's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country oldeEnglish Spy-Cartoons look, which had been done to extravagant perfection, but McIllvanney was none of those things.
- Other leaders, like the Rev. Alexander Mackennal, pointed out that the original Separatists of the sixteenth century had not venerated that "extravagant individualism against which we are now witnessing a somewhat excessive revolt".
- "I can remember writing an extravagant critique of "Cinderella Rockefeller'".
- Thomas Sprat refers to "the late extravagant excesses of enthusiasm.
- More extravagant versions were embellished with carving and no surface escaped unscathed.
- If anything, we were too extravagant in the late 1980s when money was rolling in - we took everything for granted.
- There followed such extravagant follies as Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) and an Anna Karenina (1947) in which Vivien Leigh vainly tried to bring some of the same magic to the role as Greta Garbo had 12 years earlier.
- extravagant marquees, immaculate helicopters, the best suites at the best hotels, the best restaurants, the handsomest girls, the best company, the most ease and the most fun possible; behind the scenes, real work was done, not least by Master James and the March engineers who, then as now, were no slouches.
- Faith in education as an instrument of growth began to be eroded, and increasingly it came to be regarded, especially by the Treasury, as an extravagant indulgence.
- In her book, The Limits of Sex , Celia Haddon describes how claims for the value and importance of physical sex became ever more extravagant.
- The man once dubbed "Fabulous Forman" for his extravagant taste in clothes is said to have walked out for "personal reasons".
- This was a criticism not of Gothic design nor of church building but of extravagant expenditure.
- ALMA COGAN Gordon Burn Alma Cogan was a British plain Jane who reinvented herself via extravagant frocks and bouffants to become a massive Fifties singing star, dying in 1966.
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