However, recent data suggests that smartphones aren't actually an extravagance.
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Beyond the extravagance, she has proven to be politically ambitious.
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I was sure the total would be an embarrassing extravagance.
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The fuerdai have brought their passion for extravagance to Vancouver.
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Mr. Grey spared no extravagance when he ran the studio.
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The extravagance of bath time extends to the tub itself.
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AWARDS-OSCARS-DRESSES/ Oscars 2020 red carpet: Stylist predicts return to 'extravagance' A return to "extravagance" is what one fashion stylist is predicting when Hollywood stars parade the red carpet at the Oscars on Sunday.
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She also revealed another "greatest extravagance": her hand-carved onyx bathtub.
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His comments made it seem as though smartphones are an extravagance.
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Finally, a little extravagance in the New York City restroom experience.
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Even Jews who have taken the holidays worry about the extravagance.
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Break these daily extravagance habits and watch your bank account grow.
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The chefs' spirit of extravagance helped make Joe Beef a success.
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Mr. Guzmán was not the only one who reveled in extravagance.
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His biggest extravagance is a $6 million New York City apartment.
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Her biggest extravagance is her shoe collection, which receives endless commentary.
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We slept in until after nine, an extravagance of unprecedented dimensions.
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They bring the ludicrous extravagance of absolute power into brilliant focus.
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Meanwhile, his personal extravagance actually increased the need for tax revenue.
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But wealth, even the royal kind, doesn't have to mean extravagance.
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The haunting extravagance of "The Garden" is transportive, as death should be.
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But the whimsy and extravagance of the contemporary office is something new.
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Ka'oir and Gucci, whose fans call the Wopsters, are all about extravagance.
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"How much you need is totally dependent upon the extravagance," Cramer says.
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The ones paying for all this extravagance are often the least fortunate.
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"How much you need is totally dependent upon the extravagance," Cramer said.
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It's the kind of efficient extravagance I think King Camp might appreciate.
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The man who built it, Louis XIV, was notorious for his extravagance.
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Dubai screams extravagance with towering skyscrapers, lavish shopping and glistening sand dunes.
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As we see in the episode, despite Cunanan's extravagance, the gesture failed.
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Yet a sense of energy and accomplishment filtered through its dated extravagance.
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I felt intermittent, quasi-guilty pleasure at the extravagance of it all.
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To achieve and maintain social position required relentless aggression and ceaseless extravagance.
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Peloton's next act ladles on extra extravagance at an even higher price.
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A trip to a carwash might seem like a water-wasting extravagance.
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This extravagance is also an affront to the rules of natural selection.
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There was a time when such extravagance was intrinsic to the faith.
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It skirted awfully close to over-extravagance, but kept its balance nicely.
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Standing rib roast with all the trimmings signifies extravagance, luxury and abundance.
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The sheer extravagance that follows her every move makes for truly unforgettable moments.
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These were Spartan operations without the offsetting extravagance of Ms. Spradlin's recent works.
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Such extravagance is all too obviously a reaction against the mandatory dress code.
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"The years that followed were just full of extravagance and luxury," he remembers.
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A piece of furniture dedicated solely to drinks might seem like an extravagance.
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This attitude of extravagance is still alive in ballet's cast of fantastical characters.
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He has an apt taste for extravagance, but Franco Zeffirelli he is not.
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He had a wife whose extravagance was far beyond his means to gratify.
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It's hard to ignore the gratuitous excess, the worrisome superficiality, the aqueous extravagance.
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Turntables seemed like a particular extravagance, since hardly anyone listened to records anymore.
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What a waste, what an extravagance—why not make oneself accountable to that?
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The greatest extravagance came from my daughters who gave me their precious time.
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Asked to share her greatest extravagance, DeGeneres revealed she's got a weakness for watches.
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" She concluded, "What a fun evening full of glamour, extravagance, history, tradition, and love.
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Saint Petersburg artist Asya Kozina makes paper wigs that pin together extravagance and simplicity.
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In each image, you'll see an extravagance on par with the books' and movie's.
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"I have an absurd kind of extravagance," Radziwill told PEOPLE in an old interview.
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Looking at Herrera's 1981 collection today, the clothes seem the apotheosis of '80s extravagance.
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This is a pair of extravagant gadgets whose appeal resides in that very extravagance.
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In an essay on Joseph Cornell, Davis delights in the measured extravagance of lists.
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It took an extravagance of imagination to see it as a house of praise.
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It was an atypical move for a musician who shies away from expressive extravagance.
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The party has already cracked down on what it terms extravagance, hedonism and bureaucratism.
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In Generation Wealth, everybody's drive [toward extravagance] comes from a trauma, often from childhood.
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We've been told the extravagance of these funerals means it's important to bring gifts.
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Architectural Digest described it as a "'no frills' abode" that chooses function over extravagance.
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But zoning subsidizes that extravagance by prohibiting better, more concentrated use of the land.
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From the looks of the gold-drenched Trump Tower, it's clear that Trump loves extravagance.
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Ultimately, however, Crazy Rich Asians seems to prize a more broadly appealing celebration of extravagance.
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"This extravagance must end," he wrote in a letter to management, referring to executive bonuses.
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At times the extravagance and petty snobbery of these bajillionaires can cause bling fatigue: Mansions!
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In true royal extravagance, Jacquees and his pals sampled every single appetizer on the menu!!!
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Usually, their marriage ceremonies have two things in common: tremendous extravagance and an Italian setting.
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That's because in his view, private-jet charters are, in most cases, not an extravagance.
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As the parties' reputation grew, so did the pressure to raise the level of extravagance.
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For some inhabitants, the extravagance goes on; for others, it is a memory slipping away.
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Barringer's comparisons to John Singer Sargent, the painter-courtier of Gilded Age extravagance, feel compensatory.
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But her writing, once you acclimate to its gargoyle extravagance, has the power of malediction.
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News Analysis LONDON — The World Economic Forum has never suffered from a lack of extravagance.
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But with its extravagance and its refusal to face reality, the government is testing their patience.
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Thanks to a partnership with Porsche Design, the company can now add extravagance to that list.
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The stock market's a gamble, but maybe you see this edible extravagance as a sure bet.
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As in previous collections, he displays a lavish love of learning and language without blowsy extravagance.
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Pruitt's Morocco trip was one of his most expensive, but it wasn't his only travel extravagance.
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I planned on showering my mother with the extravagance of a card I would make myself.
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Their thrift-store extravagance inspired him as much as the dank leather dens on Folsom Street.
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Porridge, in Phan's kitchen, wasn't a Dickensian breakfast bowl, but a kind of all-day extravagance.
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But for most of us, this device, with a starting price of $649, is an extravagance.
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Its onboard premium cabins and its hub airport, Singapore's Changi Airport, are known for their extravagance.
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Others, who are delighted by her extravagance and whimsy, often fail to see further than that.
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But just like the celebrated establishments it's profiling, the show is best enjoyed as a sporadic extravagance.
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Luxury is, by definition, a state of great comfort and extravagance, particularly as it relates to lifestyle.
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It stood empty for years, a symbol of ill-planned extravagance (people are at last moving in).
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Spencer also admits her "greatest extravagance" is shoes, and that she could talk about forensics for hours.
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BANGKOK — The denunciations have swirled through Thailand's gilded palaces with the rhetorical extravagance of a Shakespearean history.
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Stylistically fluid, she can modulate her singing for clarity and consonance, Romantic-era extravagance, or writhing experimentalism.
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But even a trophy-hunter would struggle to explain this one as anything other than an extravagance.
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The extravagance and explicitness of the self-hatred on display bring it ever closer to self-love.
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Mr. Manafort used his tax-free dollars, prosecutors have said, to support a lifestyle of staggering extravagance.
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"Go in hot pursuit of and strike hard against hedonism and extravagance," Xinhua cited Xi as saying.
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The extravagance of the Q9 is not just limited to the OneConnect box or that $3,21 price tag.
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The name Trump conjures up a certain level of extravagance: private jets, gilded furniture and highly conspicuous consumption.
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But with Paisley Park badly overextended by his rock-star extravagance, Prince blamed Warner for his commercial shortfall.
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From when he feels sexiest to his greatest extravagance, McConaughey, 46, was game to fill in the blanks.
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As Russia began to slide into recession, the bridge started to look more and more like an extravagance.
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Plenty of bands address the extravagance and the ferocity of youth, but far fewer sing about being grownup.
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And we're not talking gold plated forks or silver spoon extravagance, those most people can avoid without difficulty.
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Surgery, weird injuries, witches' hexes: The Mets' season was near laughable in the extravagance of its bad luck.
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Extravagance and abjectness are the unlikely bedfellows that lend photographer Joanne Leah's gritty, glittery nudes their addictive appeal.
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The extravagance of the Mediterranean climate mirrored in the astounding spaciousness of many of the galleries we visited.
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Sallie Patrick, the "Dynasty" showrunner, said that she felt an obligation to continue the extravagance of the original.
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But Gurung, ever the master of balancing both nuance and extravagance, handles the moment with care and reverence.
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From here the extravagance and craftsmanship of high-end Art Deco, and its accompanying social obliviousness, is prominent.
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Taking unpaid time off from work and spending money to travel and attend the program is an extravagance.
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Others didn&apost seem phased by the velvet aesthetic but joked about the family&aposs wealth and extravagance.
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Michael Mayer's neon extravagance of a production, setting Verdi's opera in 1960s Las Vegas, returns to the stage.
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"Lady Gaga finds herself in tugs of war with herself — sincerity versus artifice, extravagance versus asceticism," he wrote.
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There is a decorative current running through her ceramics, which merges extravagance with the stately columnar-like forms.
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Considering Carey's episode of MTV Cribs, this kind of glitz and glamor and extravagance is right up her alley.
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"My greatest extravagance is flying in English muffins from Napa Valley," Winfrey told PEOPLE during The Jess Cagle Interview.
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However, the colorful politician has been criticized in the past for displays of extravagance in the poverty-stricken state.
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There wasn't the budget for extravagance, and she was far from flashy, but she believed in a little pampering.
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"My greatest extravagance is flying in English muffins from Napa Valley," Winfrey told PEOPLE during The Jess Cagle Interview.
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" The concept of camp is defined in Susan Sontag's 1964 essay Notes on Camp as "the spirit of extravagance.
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The reign of King Louis XVI was known for its extravagance, a reputation garnered by his wife Marie Antoinette.
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Such a huge turnout would easily dwarf the extravagance of any ridiculously expensive Super Sweet 16 party on MTV.
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People's hands get chopped off, their heads get bashed open, and they're cut entirely in half with bloody extravagance.
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The goal is to create extravagance and exclusivity for the select few, even if it stirs up resentment elsewhere.
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While Finn gets swept up in the wealth and extravagance around them, Rose captures the voice of the Resistance.
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The Haludovo Palace Hotel toned down its extravagance and continued hosting guests until civil war broke out in 1991.
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For Seyfried, it seems the extravagance people associate with a big wedding is already a routine part of her life.
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There's a special emphasis on breakthroughs in textiles and technology, alongside notions of comfort, with a hefty dose of extravagance.
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While style trends have changed through the years, the extravagance, the luxury that comes with the Academy Awards is steadfast.
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Mosaic marble flooring, original crown moldings, even gold-leafed ceilings — this is the kind of interior extravagance we dream of.
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Celebrated for its legendary steaks and classic wood-paneled interior, Peter Luger was a symbol of the city's delicious extravagance.
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A few years ago, Mumbai's hard-pressed bus commuters would have had no idea of the extravagance in their midst.
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And though it may resemble a hobbit hole on the outside, the 4,000-square-foot home holds unexpected extravagance inside.
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The bizarre extravagance of the gesture combined with a hint of astroturfing grated at the nerves of the romance community.
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All of this extravagance was funded by Baston's position as the kingpin in a vast international empire of upscale prostitution.
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These platforms could not promote "mammonism, extravagance, or sensationalism", nor could they feature excessive marketing during shows, the regulator said.
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It appears as if Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis have stitched another jaw-dropping exercise in period extravagance.
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Given so much natural extravagance, it's not surprising that the real and the unreal are sometimes mistaken for each other.
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Multiple Democratic presidential candidates, like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, have run on limiting the extravagance of corporate pay packages.
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He was ostentatious: Among other things, he employed a personal driver/butler, a rare extravagance in the humble, Calvinist Netherlands.
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For decades, the director Franco Zeffirelli, who died on Saturday at 96, was the unabashed emperor of extravagance in opera.
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Forking over a hundred dollars for a digital writing stick may be too much of an extravagance for many people.
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While on paper many hospitals operate on the thinnest of margins, that is in part a choice, resulting from extravagance.
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Silver furniture was the most obvious demonstration of wealth, "as not many aristocrats could commission such an extravagance," he said.
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Though brief, they lend necessary insight into Japan's diverse, enduring rituals, which both astound and bewilder with their sheer extravagance.
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To Kardashian truthers, Kim's marble table represents a crack in her carefully curated image of squeaky-clean wealth and extravagance.
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I did manage to sign up for a more modest extravagance — a half-hour seaplane ride around the Vancouver area.
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From jewelry to footwear and even some furry friends in between, the two definitely did not hold back on the extravagance.
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But that's what makes its extravagance so alluring — it's something you can only experience at a large tech show like CES.
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The extravagance of his official trip, punctuated by holidays, comes after an austerity drive at home caused by low oil prices.
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Channelling the spirit of her hero Theodore Roosevelt, she vows to curb lobbying, campaign-finance extravagance, carbon emissions and much else.
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What infuriated Toyoda and Kobayashi most, according the four sources, was what they described as the unnecessary extravagance of the event.
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Meat was always an extravagance—even in the 70s and 80s, it was largely a once-a-week dish, if that.
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People know that missing a meal is an extravagance that they used to not have, so they really go for it.
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Picture Prompts 143 Photos View Slide Show ' The annual Met Gala is always about excess, extravagance and eyeballs, The Times writes.
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Smarter Living: A trip to a carwash might seem like a water-wasting extravagance, but it's better than the driveway alternative.
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The triumphant locker room at the Super Dome started out so crowded Sunday night that personal space seemed like an extravagance.
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The second season of "Queen Sugar" comes to a close, while 2 Chainz starts a new show about extravagance on Viceland.
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It was all a huge extravagance and essentially a gamble, a piece of military theater, Hastings suggests, rather than serious strategy.
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"It says that people love extravagance and are willing to pay the price to indulge in such extravagant menu items," he added.
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She's a woman cut from that same "greed is good" and "money is a drug" ethos, but she lacks that same extravagance.
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Anyone who has spent time in New York City knows that a seven-room apartment is quite an extravagance, especially in Manhattan.
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In fact, some fakers create real-looking parts on authentic equipment, a wild extravagance that is well worth the time and effort.
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Smarter Living: A trip to a carwash might seem like a water-wasting extravagance, but it's actually better than the driveway alternative.
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But there's little sense of the triumph — or, at least, the reveling in extravagance and difficulty — of earlier finales by this composer.
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That may not have happened, but the extravagance of that era can be relived at a reasonable price at the Old Consulate.
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Sherald riffs on the extravagance of the spectacle while deferring—as just another beholder, another citizen—to the integrity of the mien.
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In his new work, "Almodóvar Dystopia," Mr. Ramos channels the Spanish filmmaker's droll extravagance into an uninhibited escapade for six naked performers.
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She makes the decision to not abandon herself in representational extravagance, to rather be discreet in the demonstration of her painterly capacity.
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"Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada" reads the sign, but Sin City wasn't always known as the home of extravagance and gambling.
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The first course, labeled on the menu as "down the rabbit hole," sets the tone for the extravagance and folly to come.
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Guests, like myself, choose to stay here to savor the extravagance, storied history, distinctly San Francisco location, and trust in the Fairmont name.
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She has complete composure, so the extravagance of the full skirt that's coming into style at that time didn't seem right for her.
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There, she discovers that Nick comes from an obscenely rich family, and is plunged into a world of ridiculous extravagance and lavish parties.
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So in its boldness, its extravagance and its challenge to a revered location, the Delos show will very likely prove a one-off.
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"Given the extravagance of the pop star's usual costumes, it's almost like you're seeing her for the first time," wrote IndieWire's Michael Nordine.
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It's not so much extravagance if I'm honest, I mean mind you, anyone would think a gold Rolex is extravagant, that's for sure.
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Traces of Chanler remain, and for each are stories of extravagance, and some of the most creative art of the early 20th century.
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I tried explaining this to him, that not everybody has the kind of income to be able to afford this kind of extravagance.
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The prog-rock pioneers embraced extravagance: odd instruments and fantastical lyrics, complex compositions and abstruse concept albums, flashy solos and flashier live shows.
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The hotel toned down its extravagance but still maintained its reputation as a high-end resort and hosted prominent guests, including Saddam Hussein.
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In the posts, made over several months, Nyanzi also accused Museveni - often in colourful language - of nepotism, extravagance, corruption and human rights violations.
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I pointed out that it must be hard to build a company focused on sustainability in a business known for excess and extravagance.
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Three numbers are given over to the admiration of generals and Army life, which seems not alone an extravagance but a reckless audacity.
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Cons: This hotel lacks some of the extravagance of some of its South Pacific or Maldivian counterparts — if that's what you're looking for.
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The helicopter start-ups are already aiming to turn a ride to the airport from an extravagance into a more within-reach splurge.
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"Aus licht " was one of the great theatrical events of the new century; it would have been even greater without the aerial extravagance.
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Hancock proffers a percussive extravagance — stick and move, punch and get out — in his exhibition Pandemic Pentameter at James Cohan's Lower East Side gallery.
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The space, inside the Hotel Kabuki, is stunning, with an extravagance of plant life and light, all smooth, bare surfaces of concrete and wood.
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But New York was seen as a critical battleground, where an expense-account culture of extravagance has fed demand for foie gras for decades.
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By the Numbers Whether it's TV ratings or avocado consumption, we're inundated with ways to quantify the annual extravagance that is the Super Bowl.
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She isn't the starring heroine her daughter Jane Villanueva (Rodriguez) is and doesn't have the extravagance and vanity of her husband Rogelio (Jaime Camil).
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You find all sorts of oddness and extravagance here; ornate mausoleums for the 19th century's wealthy, intermingled with modest stones and markers of remembrance.
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"Even inexpensive vacations can feel like an extravagance if they take money away from paying your bills or saving for your future," Wronski said.
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Abortion is shamefully classified as a hedonic extravagance, instead of a necessary medical procedure to preserve the life and wellbeing of women and families.
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If you're searching for the perfect spot for a winter getaway, but can't afford the extravagance of a , there are luxurious options available stateside.
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The result was a 2400-page whopper, published in 21850, full to bursting with scandal, betrayal, extravagance and wealth beyond the dreams of avarice.
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He provides a few examples:public confidence or the lack of itsocial norms regarding extravagance or modesty in consumptionreal-estate booms and bustsstock-market bubbles.
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In a city with too many tables courting expense-account extravagance, Piquet stands out by offering beautifully sourced and cooked food at reasonable prices.
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Sleek white furniture, fake fur cushions and purple light condition the public's perception of actions taking place within, adding to their theatricality and extravagance.
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America's political divides can be felt even in the country's sin city, the desert oasis where dazzle and extravagance are a way of life.
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The practice was soon picked up by people seeking to expose the extravagance of allegedly corrupt, or at least not public-minded, local officials.
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The culinary jumble of jeweled fruits suggested an extravagance that belied its practicality: Fruitcake can fill your belly and has a long shelf life.
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The play sees it as hard-won wisdom that Cara is ready to embrace that extravagance and even has her parroting Kevin's bootstrap nostrums.
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The contrast between the extravagance of their attire and the hardships of their lives has the effect of highlighting the dignity of their code.
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His one extravagance was a large collection of shoes, which he joked was the only thing that he had in common with Imelda Marcos.
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This week's opening of L'Avenue at Saks, a lavish offshoot of a celebrity magnet in Paris, makes department-store dining feel like an extravagance.
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And for a split second, it made this $399 (GPS)–$499 (GPS + cellular) extravagance feel truly useful and maybe like a peek at the future.
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And so the repurposing goes, with the latest big-screen iteration a clunky composite of visual extravagance and Hollywood commonplaces about a life well lived.
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A review by the automaker showed "out-of-control extravagance in how it executed those events - not over-billing," another one of the sources said.
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MacLaine also says her friends would describe her as "sometimes a rough teacher" and admits that her greatest extravagance is simply dark chocolate with almonds.
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They were hilarious, improbable, completely self-obsessed, and often full of moments that broke the fourth wall and referenced the sheer extravagance of it all.
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Providing medicine -- and emotion Gold is known as a color of grandeur and extravagance, and as a result, we are psychologically drawn to the color.
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Like Mr. Burton, whose original film made over $1 billion at the global box office, Mr. Bobin believes in taking opulence and extravagance to extremes.
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Six months after the coronation of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, aide after aide has been ousted and denounced with the dramatic extravagance of a Shakespearean plot.
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The collection includes three jackets with bright and bold color-blocking ($500) and an ultra-premium lambskin leather bubble coat ($800) that screams '90s extravagance.
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My problem is that I want to live millions of dollars' worth of life but cannot say why I deserve the extravagance of this existence.
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The conceptual pivot to elation and extravagance in the song's second half inspired Du Preez and Thornton Jones to charge the second mask with light.
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But by any measure, the weeklong celebrations for Isha Ambani, the daughter of perhaps Asia's richest man, are on another level — or planet — of extravagance.
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Spas have long been a staple at airports in Europe, Asia and, especially, the Middle East, where airlines are known for over-the-top extravagance.
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LVMH has achieved nearly double the industry's growth rate in the past two decades, and last year sold over €46bn-worth of extravagance (see chart).
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It tastes of New York, in other words, where extravagance for dinner is often just a matter of shopping well and following a recipe closely.
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Scorsese has been here and done this already," Janet Maslin wrote in The Times, but not with this film's "blistering bitterness or its peacock extravagance.
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And for the ultimate spec extravagance, there's also the Zopo Speed 8, which lays claim to the title of being the first deca-core smartphone.
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And the collection didn't shy away from extravagance either: Clothes were dripping with beads, sequins and tiger prints, harking back to a 19th-century bohemian spirit.
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In this part of south London, which has seen an extravagance of bars, clubs and restaurants appear in recent years, that includes making the streets safe.
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" But "it is more the fact that Louis XIII is no more a product of the extravagance habits; it's a more normal upscale product for everybody.
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The clothes, the photoshoots, the extravagance, are also a way for women to escape reality for a second, to imagine what they could one day become.
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Down with the royal family, down with sex, cakes, parties, and extravagance, and down with Marie, a girl who came and failed to do her job.
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As a result, devising attention-grabbing new concoctions is now a constant struggle in an atmosphere where bizarre mash-ups and hedonistic extravagance are the norm.
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It wasn't evident right away, because all of the usual symbols of extravagance were easy to spot: Lavish yachts, rowdy beach parties and lots of rosé.
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With so much pink, shimmer, and extravagance, the image, "Hermanas Rojo, Maipo superstar" (1973), should be too sweet to handle for more than the briefest glance.
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The monumental disappointment of Red Dead Redemption 2 stems from the assumption that the sheer extravagance of its excesses bears some sort of inherent artistic value.
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He said the room would have a more feminine feel, a menu revolving around vegetables and seafood, and service that would not shrink from tableside extravagance.
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It is an astonishing number and one that sadly reflects both the extravagance and the waste seen in one of the richest countries in the world.
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But with the collapse of the bubble in the early 1990s and subsequent "lost decade" of economic stagnation, extravagance was out and these clubs eventually closed.
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Usually dark and loosefitting, the outfits deliberately lack the drama or extravagance with which some Nigerians present themselves; they are clothes that most would never wear.
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The largest share of successful CEOs also happen to belong to the celestial spirit animal, just ahead of Leos — a sign associated with innovation and extravagance.
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Fueled by a desire for guiltless extravagance and increasing attention paid to climate change, sustainability became a misused, industrywide buzzword associated with far-flung, expensive trips.
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The Financial Times described him in a story last week as "an Irish Catholic from Queens" who "makes for a useful straight man" to Neumann's extravagance.
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Watch Tommy's rollercoaster ride gone wrong below, paying special attention around three and a half minutes in, when the stunt descends from glam metal extravagance to comedy.
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That franchise and other pop-culture touchstones paint kink as a sultry extravagance of the rich, svelte, and white—a rarified space for those with pristine bodies.
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His greatest extravagance is buying sunglasses, he's very good at ping pong, not so good at golf, and he starts every day by doing about 50 pushups.
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But that is often at odds with my desire for extravagance, for wild gestures, and for someone who can afford to be lavish without being blithely wasteful.
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They were flavoured not merely with the garlic that Escoffier championed (popular opinion considered it "unrefined and repulsive") but with a whiff of fin de siècle extravagance.
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We so often hear about the importance — and extravagance — of various skin-care routines, whether we're devouring celebrity profiles or swapping product recs in the group chat.
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Do you think in the 1980s, with bands like Van Halen and Guns N' Roses, that their extravagance and over-the-top antics killed the rock star?
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Even as his father kept open a spigot of cash to prop up his son's enterprises, Donald Trump cultivated a public image of wealth, extravagance, and success.
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L: Of course, Melco and the whole gaming industry had 11233 very tough years between 2015 and 2016 when China had its anti-extravagance, anti-corruption campaign.
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Model Bakery went from small-town gem to sensation last spring when Oprah told People magazine that her "greatest extravagance" was having its English muffins flown in.
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That is certainly the position of the corporate sector, which has abandoned pious expressions of concern about Washington's extravagance in favor of earnest pleas for tax relief.
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It was an extravagance that left no room for budgetary error; a $200 taxi fare, no matter how thematically appropriate, would not allow me to, say, eat.
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"The residence is both grand in its extravagance and unassuming in its ambiance as every detail offers both luxury and welcoming relaxation," the real estate company wrote.
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Mr. Marcos, whose two-decade rule was notorious for its brutality and extravagance, fled the country in 93 and died in the United States three years later.
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It is stubbornly old-fashioned and singular in every dimension — its extravagance, and expense, is purely associated with the time, quality of material and labor it requires.
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There were costume designer Tomo Koizumi's multicolored cloud-like creations, inspired by hanawa, a Japanese funerary banner, and performance artist Leigh Bowery; at Roksanda, poufs and folds of fabric in rich autumnal hues made us crave romance and extravagance, via ballooned proportions; Molly Goddard designed hers in shocking pink; and the Vaquera collective channeled their knack for extravagance in an electrifying checkered black-and-fuchsia number that simply said, I've arrived.
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Of course, New York may also be the only place in the world that has taken this humble food and turned it into an over-the-top extravagance.
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"These songs reflected the Japanese public's feeling of jubilation and ascendance into the global leisure class," Cohen says of city pop's infatuation with endless summers and poolside extravagance.
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Restaurants across China serve it at traditional banquets, despite a 2014 crackdown by President Xi Jinping on extravagance and a ban on serving the delicacy at official functions.
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Kim Kardashian knows the private 747 plane she and husband Kanye West took to Tokyo was "unnecessary," a source tells PEOPLE, but she isn't apologizing for the extravagance.
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The following are a series of daily extravagance habits that, if you want to be frugal and save your money for the things you want, you must break.
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The affordable transportation is in stark contrast to the extravagance of the Met Ball, an annual party to raise money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.
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She has been accused of extravagance -- her lavish shopping trips have earned her the moniker "Gucci Grace" -- and her crude political maneuvering has made her a polarizing figure.
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The collection's French-born founders, John and Dominique de Menil, were observant Roman Catholics and also observant modernists — twice-born utopians, you might say, anti-extravagance, pro-transcendence.
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Mr. Lagerfeld has made himself into the grand showman of Paris, and Chanel into a brand that uses theater and extravagance to express the grandeur of its position.
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But the extravagance has had a muted effect on Bush's candidacy, failing to bring his lackluster campaign out of the single digits in the crowded Republican primary field.
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Coolidge was a bland speaker, for example, who upheld decorum and traditional, even puritanical, values as the nation enjoyed a burst of personal and sexual liberation and extravagance.
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Extravagance and AIDS: These were the yin and yang of New York then, and they infused the city with an intensity and creative energy that changed it forever.
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This year, Las Vegas looks likely to live up to that expectation and then some, with the extravagance and excess of the city already built into the plan.
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Classical music Michael Mayer's neon extravagance of a production, setting Verdi's opera in 1960s Las Vegas, returns to the stage, with the next performance at 7:30 p.m.
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They'd also embraced extravagance and created vast, unrushed soundscapes comparable to the likes of Styx and King Crimson, with tracks like "Parabol" and "Pushit" on their previous album, Ænima.
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The Challenge seems to be a visual portrait of wealth and extravagance, examining the culture of affluent Qatari men and their expensive cars, dangerous pets, and interest in falconry.
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Extravagance is a lifestyle for the reality star, who is known to fly her glam squad and costars around the world on her private plane when she's on tour.
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Everything from the gold combs in her hair to her exaggerated eye makeup was an ode to "camp," exemplifying the "'style' over 'content'" and extravagance that embodies the concept.
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Wiraphon claims to be the reincarnation of legendary monk Luang Pu Nenkham, but he's also known in the Thai press as the "jet set" monk due to his extravagance.
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Inspired by the aesthete, the bar's extravagance explodes inside, with a maze of marble objects bearing his quotations, intricate porcelain floor inlays, and an antique piano converted into shelves.
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"Multiple members of Trump's Cabinet are under federal investigation for graft, corruption and sticking taxpayers with the multi-million dollar bill for their extravagance and lavish lifestyles," she added.
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But then there is Dennis Graham, father to Aubrey Drake Graham, the biggest rapper in the world, whose feed lies somewhere between celebrity-backed extravagance and boring supermarket trips.
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It would not be that sort of evening: toned down, stripped back, lighter on the flash and the glamour and the extravagance that has tended to mark his celebrations.
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The revolution started off as a popular movement fueled by outrage against government extravagance, corruption, brutality, and the suppression of individual rights, before being taken over by Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Pictures of the sleeping officials have received widespread coverage in Chinese media over the past two days, amid President Xi Jinping's sweeping crackdown on corruption, extravagance and dereliction of duty.
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These were mostly quick and dirty conversations, acknowledging the other and the fact that we were there to work, but they kept me grounded in this garden of endless extravagance.
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Not one to shy away from extravagance, Mr. Izzard added the Union Jack and the European Union flag to a perfect set of blood-red nails while he was campaigning.
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Hours earlier, hinting at the extravagance to come, Gorder shared a photo of her and her husband-to-be before the party — while she was still dressed in a robe.
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Slung between aesthetics and politics, beauty and justice, sensuous extravagance and leftist commitment, Sontag sometimes found herself contemplating the obliteration of her role as public advocate-cum-arbiter of taste.
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A luxury carbon tax could be used to charge the rich for this climate extravagance, one that wouldn't apply to the emissions generated by working families in making ends meet.
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"The Rose Tattoo" does not provide any of the anguished catharses of Williams's celebrated dramas, but there's something refreshing in the play's bright colors and Serafina's amusingly overripe emotional extravagance.
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It remains a memorable partnership between the worlds of fashion and the White House, fueled by elements of old-Hollywood glamour, go-go '80s extravagance and a lifelong friendship. Mrs.
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Chapman soon became the Yankees' winter extravagance, signing the richest deal ever for a closer (five years, $19723 million) to return to the club that had traded him to Chicago.
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The cremation pyre of Rama VI in 1926 was smaller still: Even though an attempt to overthrow the monarchy in 1912 had failed, complaints about its extravagance had grown louder.
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Central to that effort has been the Preservation Society of Newport County, a well-heeled group that spends a robust $211 million a year showcasing the city's history of extravagance.
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His first couture show as Valentino's sole creative director was an invitation to look inside, with almost every garment in some way containing a hidden dimension, or a veiled extravagance.
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"A Quiet Passion" suggests that the mixture of austerity and extravagance in her verse was shaped partly by an environment in which religious severity coexisted with aesthetic and intellectual experimentation.
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As general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, Peter Gelb has steadily been replacing productions by Franco Zeffirelli, the unabashed emperor of extravagance, with new ones he deems more contemporary and effective.
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New Wave band DEVO and the iconic 'energy dome' hats worn by its members are perhaps the epitome of 80s sprightly extravagance, highly-memorable relics of a highly-specific cultural moment.
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Some commenters on social media denounced the extravagance of the colossus in a poor, rural part of China, where the money might have been better spent on education or health care.
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For more on this larger-than-life mansion and the man behind its extravagance, tune in to the season premiere of Secret Lives of the Super Rich this Thursday on CNBC.
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But this was not a man of extravagance even then, when he was getting paid $1 million for some roles, when women he'd never met recognized him from across the street.
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They were out in force at Summit LA: an ideas festival-meets-rager that has a reputation for extravagance and exclusivity, although the company says it's trying to become more diverse.
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The NBC favorite has made a sport of parodying Trump's narcissism and extravagance over the years, skewering everything from his marriage and subsequent divorce to his other marriage and subsequent divorce.
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Hideyoshi was known for his lavish, gaudy excess, and under his rule, tatehana, which he adored for its grandeur, had become increasingly more relaxed — libertine really — in its expressions of extravagance.
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Clients oftentimes have demands that match the extravagance; jets may need to be ready to fly within an hour's notice and accommodate everything from fragile and bulky photographer's equipment to pets.
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When the Red Sox traded Shaw to Milwaukee in December, they expected Pablo Sandoval — a $95 million free-agent extravagance from the winter after the 2014 season — to reclaim third base.
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And I tell myself that the dollars involved are inconsequential, really, that I'm happy with what I'm already drinking and that I can afford to be passive about this little extravagance.
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Accompanying Kim's lyrics were stunning visuals of extravagance—diamond necklaces, fur coats, designer shoes—facilitated with the help of fresh talents Misa Hylton on fashion styling and Eugene Davis on hair.
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While there are few things more satisfying than biting into a juicy strawberry at the peak of its season, the extravagance of buying only fresh produce is going to cost you extra.
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Those are the times when you would bust out these stemmed, gold-rimmed cocktail glasses, which are hand-blown, come in a classy wooden box, and represent the height of liquor extravagance.
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"Thierry was all about extravagance and high drama in his clothes; everything was very theatrical," she says of the show, which the designer invited both her and her mother to walk in.
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Petty corruption such as trying to hide extravagance in "concealed locations" will be targeted, as will the use of public funds to organize holidays in the name of recuperation, the official said.
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"We all came out to thank the king personally, so in that sense the extravagance was not needed and does not reflect the late king's attitude," said 70 year-old Tip Boonmak.
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It's Manūka honey, a sweet extravagance from New Zealand that sells for a sticky $2.50 an ounce—six times the cost of conventional honey—and has attracted a slew of famous fans.
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But the extravagance isn't confined to the ship: on land, guests will stay in swanky suites in some of the world's most luxurious hotels, like the famous Burj al Arab in Dubai.
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Even if you could afford to make dumplings with meat only once a year, you made sure to deliver a plate to your neighbors before the aroma alerted them to your extravagance.
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Just like the tradition of Thanksgiving extravagance Sherry and his brother Greg have created at the restaurant they've co-owned together since taking it over from their grandfather nearly 50 years ago.
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He believes that it was a historic mistake of the international left to "declare war on the beautiful people," and welcomes signs that Germans are allowing themselves to take pleasure in extravagance.
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As though to amp up the skyscraper's extravagance, Studio Job has put a clock in its base and made light shine from its tower, while a King Kong ape climbs its flank.
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"We're not looking for extravagance, but you have to fund this in a safe manner," said Stephen Burkert, a rail union leader and longtime conductor who joined New Jersey Transit in 1989.
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In the aftermath of World War I, the extravagance of the full-length portrait came to be seen as excessive and the formal society that the portrait relied on began to disintegrate.
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But despite the judge's complaints about their focus on Mr. Manafort's extravagance, the prosecutors detailed purchases from boutiques so exclusive that even Judge Ellis joked that he had never heard of them.
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Such a tender emotion as love may seem paradoxical for Mr. Mugabe or to his wife, Grace, who is best known for extravagance, corruption and physical assault of people who bother her.
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I was going to drape a "Welcome to Cubicle 45" sign over the fabric partition that now defines my new digs, but my staff said we're no longer budgeted for such extravagance.
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But all of these things don't always go hand in hand, and often Lady Gaga finds herself in tugs of war with herself — sincerity versus artifice, extravagance versus asceticism, and so on.
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With Atget — whose photographs, appropriately enough, were originally offered as "Documents for Artists" — the combination of abundance of subject matter and limited space encouraged a kind of tight flourishing or contained extravagance.
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The on-pitch action is primarily based on speed and extravagance, rather than the kind of diversity and ability to learn that singles out the best managers and players in today's game.
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The story of Crazy Rich Asians — and the racialization of "crazy rich" behavior, as if batshit levels of extravagance don't happen elsewhere — also does little to combat the othering of Singapore and Asia.
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" Kylie appeared to hint at what her Met Gala look would be hours before the event when she tweeted a quote from Sontag's essay: "'The hallmark of Camp is the spirit of extravagance.
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Soon after President Xi Jinping assumed the top post of general secretary in late 2012, the party issued "eight rules" to leaders demanding that they shun extravagance and guard against abuses of power.
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To top off this movie-esque magical evening, the successful pair can stumble next door to the Grand Hyatt New York hotel and continue the extravagance in the comfort of its Presidential Suite.
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It was a fantastic extravagance, the unintended consequence of which was that I really couldn't come home three weeks later for Thanksgiving and then turn right back around and come home for Christmas.
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Once that job became untenable after Xi targeted extravagant behavior, Qin, 28, returned to her hometown of Nanchong, where she experienced culture shock: her love of morning coffee raised eyebrows as an extravagance.
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He aimed to recreate the sensation of walking through a Qajar palace by covering the walls in silk and the floors in carpet, highlighting the extravagance of the Persian textiles and interior decoration.
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I can't begin to think what the Buddha might say about such extravagance, but His Holiness the 21966th Dalai Lama has given it his blessing, personally signing each copy of the Collector's Edition.
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There I was, buying dates made with literal gold — at Harrods, no less, the famous London department store equally famous for its high prices as it is for its extravagance, as Insider Inc.
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This Paris installation may be the most gleeful show of his grimy work possible, an effect achieved by mixing connotations of minimalist absence (with the ultra-spare array of works) within sumptuous neoclassical extravagance.
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For all its opulence and extravagance, Crazy Rich Asians is just a spin on a classic love scenario: Boy and girl meet; boy and girl fall in love; boy and girls' families complicate everything.
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So, here's a suggestion: Let the queen live out the rest of her days in the wealth and extravagance she has only ever known, and when she dies, let the monarchy die with her.
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Whether or not this acts as an extra selling point for those who actually buy couture is up for debate, but it adds an element of extravagance to the one-of-a-kind pieces.
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If the Elbphilharmonie can sustain its appeal over time, it will have confirmed what the Bavarian tourist industry long ago discovered with Ludwig's fairy-tale castles: that extravagance sometimes pays off in the end.
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In Fairfield, Connecticut, police stepped in to cool tempers and negotiate a compromise after 40 neighbors signed a petition protesting parking problems created by hordes viewing Gene Halliwell's holiday electrical extravagance on Roseville Terrace.
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Since the appointment of President Xi Jinping in 2013, China has fought a far-reaching campaign aimed at rooting out corruption and extravagance among officials and restoring public faith in the ruling Communist Party.
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Boston got six strong innings from free agent extravagance David Price and hitless relief from the reworked bullpen trio of Junichi Tazawa, Koji Uehara and Craig Kimbrel in the 6-33 win on Tuesday.
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In the explosive romance of Richard Quinn's Buckingham Palace-size florals and empire drapes; the pointed extravagance of his nod to Pearly Kings and Queens, the cockney performers with mother-of-pearl studded costumes.
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Some Americans denounced the purchase as a useless extravagance — "Russia has sold us a sucked orange!" cried The New York World — and one lone scholar still argues that it has been a money-loser.
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Children of more than a dozen other officials have been criticized online and are often referred to as "aghazadeh" - literally "noble-born" in Farsi but also a derogatory term used to describe their perceived extravagance.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Online quiz shows that have surged in popularity in China must not promote extravagance or sensationalism and should instead spread healthy, beneficial knowledge, the country's media and publication regulator said in a notice.
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The tattoo was done by Boston Barber and Tattoo Co, which, according to its Instagram page, has experience with Patriots-related tattoos, although none approach the extravagance and ostentatiousness as the above work of art.
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Yet for all extravagance of Mr. Browne's vision and the modesty of Ms. Bode's, what was most notable for Mr. Pask in the year gone by was the humblest of utilitarian garments: the chore coat.
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In a speech in 2009, central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said Chinese "valued thrift" and opposed extravagance, and that Chinese families had to save a lot because the health care and pension systems were underdeveloped.
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The themes were mentioned in "Beyond Extravagance," the 2013 book on the collection, but, Mr. Chapman said, "I pulled them out to the front in order to make the exhibition and book different." he said.
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A crackdown on hedonism and extravagance in a drive to improve professionalism is to go on in Xi's second term, an unidentified official from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection told the official Xinhua news agency.
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This is a movie, so Nick's secrecy about his family's money and his willingness to let Rachel walk into a world of extravagance without knowing what she's getting into are kind of necessary as plot points.
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It's more subtle than most of the fluorescent extravagance of most gaming gear, including Razer's other hardware, but just cool enough to warrant appreciating every now and again when you're eyes aren't glued to the monitor.
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She had a hard time allowing herself to get walnuts when she saw them, which she liked to toast and drizzle with honey as a snack for her son, because she regarded them as an extravagance.
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As Rutherford-Johnson has written on his blog, such a score is a "utopian extravagance," but it clears a space for a piece like Jürg Frey's Third String Quartet , a whispery procession of frail, gorgeous chords.
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Not much is known about this prince, but his royal ancestry would explain the extravagance of his final resting place, which the MOLA team thinks would have taken about two dozen men a week to build.
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The star singers Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna lead this Metropolitan Opera production of Saint-Saëns's biblical work, staged last year with old-fashioned extravagance by the director Darko Tresnjak ("A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder").
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With the ex-slaves betrayed and the Indians conquered at last, an "uncommon" America emerged, characterized by neither the imperatives of creative destruction nor even simple greed as much as by extravagance, mismanagement and predatory flimflam.
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"With her strong will and her extravagance, she gave me happiness and the sparkle to believe that I could recover," said Erica Stoccati, 22, who met her last September, while she was waiting to undergo treatment.
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Much of Ishida's artwork centers on the human toll of Japan's economy in the 90s, when an era of extravagance and conspicuous consumption gave way to the bursting of an economic bubble and an ensuing national recession.
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There was, for example, no re-examination of the Democrats' questionable support for "sanctuary cities" or their opposition to a border wall that looks like a $25-billion extravagance but not worth dying in a ditch over.
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The many supporting characters range from solidly sympathetic (Gemma Chan as Nick's elegant cousin Astrid) to cartoonishly douchey (Jimmy O. Yang as Nick's friend Bernard), and each new display of extravagance seems more extreme than the last.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will prosecute the former head of its statistics bureau, the country's anti-corruption watchdog said on Friday, accusing him of serious violations of discipline, including extravagance, abuse of power and selling power for sex.
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Never ones to veer away from extravagance (what with vampire facials, big ol' diamonds, and a lot of Balmain), Kim Kardashian and Kanye West weren't pinching pennies when they jetted off to the Bahamas last weekend. E!
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Malaysians grumble about Mr. Najib's wealth, which he claims to have inherited, and the extravagance of his wife, Rosmah Mansor, who is known for epic overseas shopping excursions and her multimillion-dollar collection of Hermès Birkin handbags.
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A small section on luxury includes a beat-up Hermes Birkin handbag, a Tiffany diamond and a Rolex watch, but this is undercut by less costly expressions of extravagance, including door-knocker earrings and custom nail art.
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Beginning in 2001, these strange games, role-playing adventures mixing influences from Final Fantasy and Disney properties into a slurry of warm feelings and anime extravagance, have beguiled and confused their fans over nearly a dozen entries.
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"It allows a High Church type of extravagance — it's just breathtakingly beautiful," said Simon Russell Beale, the great British actor, who played Ariel at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1993 and who is Prospero in this production.
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To extend our party metaphor, if everyone — even those who preferred simpler events — were effectively forced to pay for any retirement party, regardless of how lavish, we'd see, and pay for, retirement parties of ever-escalating extravagance.
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Enjoying either or both traditions at a luxury hotel like Claridge's, in London, or The Balmoral Hotel, in Edinburgh, is 50 percent less expensive than dinner in a pricey restaurant but has the same sense of extravagance.
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Castro's former bodyguard wrote a 2014 book outlining much of the dictator's extravagance, from private islands to 85-foot yachts to a luxurious compound with, oddly, a personal dairy cow for every member of the Castro family.
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But there is a sense that, when we look back on Neymar's career, we will see the flash, the glamour, the extravagance, and little or nothing more: all style, no substance; a generational talent not quite fulfilled.
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Like others in his cohort, Hall takes inspiration from the vast weekend homes of society figures in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, which reached their apogee of zany extravagance between the two world wars, often using unexpectedly intense palettes.
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Presented by its creators as an oasis of calm and greenery that would draw tourists and showcase British design and innovation, the Garden Bridge was denounced by critics as an extravagance that would bring little benefit to Londoners.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - More Iranians are using social media to vent anger at what they see as the corruption and extravagance of a privileged few, while the majority struggles to get by in an economy facing tighter U.S. sanctions.
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The boy thinks of the phone in his pocket, bought during a fit of extravagance by his father as a reward for his results in university, the latest model, then worth a month of his father's government salary.
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As well as a culture of extravagance and conspicuous consumption among some, others decry Qatar's "welfare syndrome" that has led a generation to believe it can live carelessly and be bailed out by relatives or a paternalistic government.
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Xi has come down hard on corruption since assuming office more than three years ago and tried to return the party to its traditional values of serving the people selflessly, following a series of graft and extravagance scandals.
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Writers of literary Spanish, from Gongora to the present, have often tended toward rhetorical extravagance and ornate grammar, but Di Benedetto the newspaperman favors sentences as clipped as telegrams, moving adeptly between lyrical, objective, colloquial, and philosophical registers.
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And the Middles Ages were indeed rather crude times, in which illness ran rampant, illiteracy was common, and the church, as the arbiter of Europe's entire social structure, eradicated the pursuit of art for art's sake as extravagance.
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Lodging on the road is an extravagance — four teams are based in Ontario, and four are scattered across New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island — so players grow accustomed to snowy round-trip bus rides on game days.
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Following the Chinese government's sweeping anti-extravagance crackdown in 22, which led to shrinking demand for the high-end liquor, premium brands are indicating that retail demand is returning, as distributors are seeing renewed interest in international whiskey labels.
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Formula 1 has been addressing exactly the pain points I would have been complaining about a few years ago: creating exotic, wildly expensive parts that are used just once and then discarded, prioritizing spectacle over safety, extravagance over efficiency.
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A U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks in 2011 described her as a "first-rate egomaniac" and she remains unapologetic about her personal extravagance, although officials in her party say she has since reduced the level of public pomp.
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I continue my day of food-related extravagance: I attempt a veggie couscous from Hello Fresh that at first feels simple but that I will quickly discover requires me to have three separate timers running at the same time.
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And by the looks of it, producers in France's Champagne region won't be popping any bottles in celebration this year, as there may not be enough bubbles to waste on acts of extravagance so closely associated with their product.
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Not only are tech companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft the wealthiest in the country — worth more by market cap than any bank — and prone to ostentatious extravagance, their innovations have also contributed to the decline of industrial America.
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With the global economy in crisis and austerity measures strangling societies — and opera companies — worldwide, the exorbitant, empty-headed staging felt out of step with the times, a creaky extravagance from an art form perennially dismissed as just that.
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In designing for, and capturing on canvas, the images of clients and admirers like Elizabeth Taylor, Paloma Picasso and Diana Vreeland, Mr. Vollbracht came to symbolize the unfettered giddiness, extravagance and glamour of the late 1970s and early ′80s.
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I eventually persuaded my parents to take me back to see it again, at a repertory theater, a year or two later, even though watching a movie in the theater twice felt, to my parents, like an inconceivable extravagance.
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Since assuming office three years ago, President Xi Jinping has come down hard on deep-rooted corruption and tried to return the party to its traditional values of serving the people selflessly, following a series of graft and extravagance scandals.
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They could flicker like candlelight when you're hunkering down in a tavern in Witcher 3, or flash red when you get ganked in Star Wars: Battlefront II.That's the kind of extravagance I imagined when I bought my eight Hue lights.
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But that's perfectly fine if you realize — even at the end of the priciest Thanksgiving experience in the world — that sharing the experience with loved ones matters more than the extravagance or the price of the food that rests on top.
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It can be easy to get swept up by the glamour of palace life — but this could compromise the royals' safetyMorgan says it's easy for royal staff members to get sucked into the extravagance of lifestyles like Harry and Markle's.
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Splurge on Tea, Save on Lunch and Dinner Enjoying the famous London tradition of afternoon tea at a luxury hotel like Claridge's is 50 percent less expensive than dinner in a pricey restaurant but has the same sense of extravagance.
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He could watch a fight on a Wednesday evening should he really want to—15 years ago that was an unthinkable extravagance unless you had picked up a bargain bin VHS of Mike Tyson or Roy Jones Jr.'s best hits.
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Some analysts were relieved when Google sold off Motorola Mobility, according to The Times: The decision to buy Motorola was "the extravagance of being a company with over $21 billion in market cap," said Jordan Rohan, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus.
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Tom Rice, author of "White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan," said American filmmakers have wrestled with how to depict the extravagance and elaborate rituals of the Klan without romanticizing or evading its hyperviolent culture.
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"It is like being alone in a dark room with a treasure chest full of rubies and nuggets and brocades," Sackville-West marveled in a letter to Woolf after reading the novel; this version lacks that sense of giddy extravagance.
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It seems to me that wines have returned to classical conceptions of what they ought to be, after a period of strange extravagance in which wine was amplified because, for the first time, producers had the wherewithal to do it.
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Besson spent years banging the drum for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets — his adaptation of the French sci-fi comic Valérian and Laureline — playing up its visual extravagance and the $180 million budget he raised outside the studio system.
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WATCH THIS: Ellen DeGeneres Reveals Her Greatest Extravagance And we don't think it's a coincidence that her favorite piece just happens to match the shade of a certain forgetful fish… "My favorite is probably the Azure Stripe bed," says the Finding Dory star.
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For some analysts, the extravagance is misplaced at a time Europe's largest carmaker has been forced to postpone its 2015 results while it tries to put a price on the emissions scandal, and its core VW brand steps up cost saving plans.
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HONG KONG, April 8 (Reuters) - Italian luxury goods maker Prada SpA reported a 27 percent fall in quarterly profit on Friday, hit by lacklustre sales in China which have waned alongside slowing economic growth and a crackdown on extravagance among public officials.
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The shopping hot spots of Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore have long been overseas favorites for Chinese visitors, but a reduced appetite for luxury due to a slower Chinese economy and crackdown on extravagance has left some retailers feeling the pinch.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party has expelled a former mayor of the port city of Ningbo, accusing him of taking bribes, trading influence and money for sex, indulging in "superstitious activities" and violating rules on extravagance and use of private clubs.
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No free fruit in hotel rooms, no free hair cuts and no prawns on the menu - delegates at this week's Communist Party Congress in China can expect austere treatment in keeping with President Xi Jinping's pledge to crack down on corruption and extravagance.
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The shopping hot spots of Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore have long been overseas favorites for Chinese visitors, but a reduced appetite for luxury due to a slower Chinese economy and crackdown on extravagance has left some retailers feeling the pinch.
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But I have also spent a lifetime trying to laugh when a friend has driven me past a psychiatric hospital and commented on the loons inside, to crack a smile when people have expressed their emotional extravagance with a jest about suicide.
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Fergus McCaffrey has brought back a series of painting-reliefs by the Italian artist Carol Rama from her recent show at the New Museum, where their truth-to-materials toughness was sometimes lost in the sexual extravagance of her watercolors and etchings.
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In the earlier stages of her political career she was known for her huge extravagance: In 303, she was widely condemned for funding her foster son's overtly lavish wedding which included a reception banquet for 150,000 guests and cost over $23 million.
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It's eye-popping, and its extravagance gives rise to some tension between medium and message: A work that pleads the virtues of simplicity and poverty is being told in a way that hardly lets you forget how complicated and fantastically expensive it is.
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SUNDAY PUZZLE — Today we have a Sunday puzzle without a theme, and an extravagance of interesting terms in a grid that sets the Sunday record for fewest entries (19973, if you were wondering, breaking a record set earlier this year by Joel Fagliano).
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary is plying Olympic authorities with visions of a 22024 games played out from the elegant Danubian capital Budapest to the shores of Lake Balaton, eschewing the extravagance of recent years in a turn to a more modest global sporting celebration.
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And perhaps there's no better symbol for the boldness of the great human experiment than the walk, as each springy step contains the same extravagance, cocksureness, and audacity present in the greatness of our pyramids and the arrogance of our tar-sand pits.
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It's up to the UFC to choose its values and decide whether fights with the most competitive meaning get the biggest push, or if fights with the illusion of extravagance and the promise of a million-plus pay-per-view buy rate prevail.
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"Drag is camp, parodying gender and culture in its extravagance of visual and attitude, including everyone from 1930s cabaret icon Josephine Baker, who swathed herself in rhinestones, to David Bowie's gender-bending Aladdin Sane/Ziggy Stardust days, to the performances of Trixie Mattel," Goodman explains.
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A reduced appetite for luxury due to a slower Chinese economy and a crackdown on extravagance has also hit visits to the former British colony of Hong Kong, which has been racked by pro-democracy protests and anti-China sentiment in recent years, infuriating Beijing.
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She's moved through her grief to the point where she realized that her grief was an extravagance her son couldn't afford, and so she decided to make him her life's work and honors the legacy of his dead father by giving him a good life.
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It's a meeting millions had been waiting for, an encounter between two of the world's most intriguing and complex characters: The holy man in white who preaches good news to the poor and the brash businessman in the dark suit who embodies American extravagance.
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Its man-of-the-people look, along with a cloying media campaign calling him "Papa Xi," help soften his harder authoritarian edges, while its calculated lack of pretense and extravagance sets the tone for a leader seeking to rein in official corruption and profligacy.
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Already there is the offhand metaphorical extravagance, as if it's merely natural and straightforward to describe oneself as a tunnel or a root, and a pressing awareness of the injuries of class society, the romantic frustrations of poor young men not least among them.
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Despite the ad hoc architecture and the D.I.Y. aesthetic — particularly the costumes, a mixture of neon knits and thrift-store finds — there's a sense of extravagance in the marshaling of dozens of artists and so many technical challenges for something that passes so quickly.
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A long-running feud between the sultan and his brother, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, unfolded in courtrooms around the world after the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s and brought attention to the prince's reputation for extravagance, including cars, mansions, mistresses and erotic statues.
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Ray Parisi is the Senior Executive Producer of Business News Specials It's an exclusive world filled with enormous fortunes, unimaginable extravagance and a cast of super-rich characters with one thing in common -- a voracious appetite for success, status, and the best of the best.
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When he's happy, he signals his enthusiasm with an extravagance that can feel disproportionate: At one point the drummer, Ben Rose, supplies an impromptu cowbell accent, and Conte throws back his head in a show of delight so forceful that his headphones go flying.
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At these events, which increased in extravagance and inflatable slide quantity each year, Swift and her friends gathered at her Rhode Island beach manse and enjoyed the sunny weather (save for a rainy blip in 22018), as if the heavens of America were shining right upon them.
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If most of the 12 newly elected senators, as expected, also back the administration, observers worry that Durterte will return the country to an era much like that of Marcos, whose two-decade rule from 1965 to 1986 was defined by its brutality, corruption and extravagance.
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The shuttering of the 18-plus dry club, another rarity in Boston, which took a more international-underground, independent approach to music bookings and eschewed big corporate club extravagance, didn't invent the demand for parties like these, but it has displaced many of its regular followers.
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Wang Baoan, a one-time deputy finance minister who became chief of the statistics bureau in mid-2015, was accused by the ruling Communist Party's anti-corruption watchdog in late August of serious violations of discipline, including extravagance, abuse of power and selling power for sex.
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A man of Jucundus's standing would have received many guests and likely owned many slaves; although the video reconstruction is void of people, the tour of the estate in all its extravagance invites us to consider the flurry of activity that once filled its many rooms.
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The Connelly contribution, a mirror-shaped canvas encrusted with hundreds of fake pearls and titled "Self-Portrait," suits the Stettheimian "extravagance-is-me " ethos to a T. On the long historical walkabout of some 60 collection galleries spread over three floors, there's pretty much something for everyone.
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However much Sagan might have overreached, his intellectual extravagance was nothing compared with the entirely hypothetical musings and game-theory models of the political scientists and strategists on the basis of whose speculations the United States government spent more than five trillion dollars between 1940 and 1996.
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There were slithers of tulle smothered in metallic pearls like a '70s disco diva, simple wool tunics and trousers paired with flowing velvet and satin capes (no one does casual extravagance like Mr. Piccioli), botanical gardens of organza and lace, and glinting jacquard Bermuda shorts. Shorts!
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Lord & Taylor: Here are a few numbers to give you a sense of the extravagance of Lord & Taylor's "The Best and the Brightest" display: There are more than 200 hand-painted, hand-sculpted squirrels running up the facade of the building, and 250,000 strands of lights.
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The protests were sparked by videos posted by former actor and contractor Muhammad Ali, now in Spain, who detailed what he claimed were instances of extravagance, corruption and embezzlement by, among others, Field Marshall-turned President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (Sisi has dismissed the allegations as "lies and slanders").
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Though events like the plague of 1666 or the erection of the Berlin Wall occasionally threaten Wychwood's tranquillity, it is a "blessed enclosure," an island of graceful extravagance protected by high walls—"the materialisation of the imaginary"—and by the money and power of returning Royalists and their successors.
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In films like The Queen of Versailles (2012) and Generation Wealth (2018), the documentarian explores the fabulous, over-the-top wealth concentrated among tiny numbers of people, providing a window into extravagance that seems to teeter on the edge of the tragic — all this money, and for what?
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In creating costumes for Cher over the years — costumes that often tell the story of a shy woman emerging triumphant from a chrysalis — the designer Bob Mackie has kept on the right side of the line by making sure the level of craft supports the extravagance of the gesture.
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So, just because the Yankees were valued by Forbes at $4 billion last April and were shedding more than $50 million in payroll at the end of last season, did not mean they were going to splurge on an extravagance like Harper or a finishing touch like Corbin.
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Even without the worst of her behavior — the abuses of power, the extravagance — it is hard to imagine that a figure like Grace Mugabe could have fit comfortably into the role of first lady in a country like Zimbabwe, where the legacy of the independence movement still looms large.
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The idea of hunting for reinforcements might seem like an extravagance for a team that is on pace to win 107 games, except for the fact that all the Yankees' success would earn them at the moment is a one-game playoff to keep their World Series pursuit alive.
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His anti-corruption video showing the extravagance of Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev's vast country estate has had more than 26 million views on YouTube since its publication in March 2017 and prompted thousands of his supporters to take to the streets in cities around the country last June.
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Cheryl has spared no expense decking the halls of Thistle House and Penelope is not pleased and asks how they'll pay for the extravagance to which Cheryl retorts that her mother should go to Hiram Lodge for a job, but unfortunately the only skill she has is being a terrible mother.
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A certain amount of work is required to stitch together a sense of the plot, but as is often the case in Zulawski's films, the story is less the point than an excuse, a loose temporal conceit holding together flights of visual invention, verbal extravagance and male and female nudity.
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It sits on a cusp between specificity and extravagance, research and allegory, chronicle and riff, pierced by an acuity of vision that turns our looking-glass political sphere inside-out, exposing its elemental ludicrousness as an instrument of clarity and an artifact of mystifying beauty, because that's what art does.
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If anyone doubted his taste for stylistic extravagance, the titles of some of his books — like "The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B." (22014), the story of a man whose only happy affair was with his nanny, and "The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman" (21969) — made that point on their own.
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The careful attention Bay devotes to these trademark elements is apparent in The Last Knight; on several occasions, the film comes across as more than a little self-aware, piling on frenetic explosions and showdowns and special effects extravagance, deflating its own self-importance even as it builds it up.
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Of course, most of the celebrities fucked it up by dressing nowhere near ostentatiously enough (or, worse: wearing an ordinary ball gown with a little halo headpiece or a crucifix embroidery), but there's one woman who can always be relied upon for extravagance, especially when the word 'Catholic' is anywhere close by.
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It will be perfect and will cost more than virtually any other such item you can buy off a shelf (the company also keeps several ateliers just for custom orders, another magnitude of extravagance), though ever so slightly different from all the others because of the particular hand used to create it.
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Kiko has provided a lucky streak of seamless touring since joining them one year ago, fathering them while they take their maiden voyages to places he's seen countless times; earlier in the week, they celebrated their one-year anniversary at a lucha libre match in LA. His extravagance is rubbing off on them too.
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Joyce frequently remarked that readers tended to miss the fact, announced in the book's title, that this is a portrait of the artist as a young man, and therefore the exalted, epiphanic tone is to be taken with a large handful of salt, as both a celebration and an undermining of youthful artistic extravagance.
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In many ways, the discussion between the three men in Mr. Trump's office tower encapsulates the dueling impulses of the president-elect, a man who enjoys being at the center of attention, but who is also aware that he was elected on a strong populist message of "draining the swamp" of Washington cronyism and extravagance.
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Ms. Tosi says one of her few indulgences is travel, but sometimes it's just an impromptu train trip to visit her mother and sister, who live near each other in Reston, Va. After years of scraping by on staff meals and $4 bodega sandwiches, having whatever she wants delivered seems like an extravagance, too.
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And even before the disclosure of the record-breaking purchase in a New York art auction by one of his associates, Prince Mohammed's extravagance had already raised eyebrows, most notably with the impulse purchase two years ago in the south of France of a Russian vodka titan's 440-foot yacht, for half a billion dollars.
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Finally, I've found a product that both satisfies the part of me that wants to use lip gloss made for children and the part of me that prizes decidedly adult values such as extravagance, luxury, and $100 bills: Tom Ford's new Lip Slicks, which are essentially the rich-person upgrade of the roll-ons I loved so much.
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While Trump names a Cabinet of millionaires and billionaires, battles for tax cuts for the most wealthy, denies egregious conflicts of interest that are obvious to most observers, and glorifies in the extravagance of his alleged wealth, Pope Francis observed Christmas by warning of the dangers of materialism and praying for the well-being of the poor.
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The extravagance of an event like last night's Chanel show (the French fashion house chartered over 170 vintage Chevrolets and Cadillacs to transport guests, per Vogue UK) does call into question whether it was inappropriate — or offensive, even — for an international luxury brand to mine inspiration from and momentarily occupy a place still ravaged by poverty.
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But for those of us who feel like we're living and working on a knife-edge, there's something about the extravagance of it all—the Warriors wooing Durant with a pair of VR goggles and the grandiose but not unrealistic promise of becoming legendary, but also all these ordinary players becoming extraordinarily rich—that, while fitting, feels almost rude.
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I suppose it should come as no surprise that there was once a presidential YACHT (the last version being the U.S.S. Sequoia), and I confess that it was a bit gratifying to learn that President Jimmy Carter was the one who jettisoned the floating status symbol as part of his efforts to dispense with governmental extravagance.
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By including some pretty wonderfully contrasting pre-revolutionary drawings, such as David's "Study after Guido Cagnacci's Young Martyr" (circa 1775) and Jean-Honore Fragonard's wildly lavish fête galante drawing "The Slap" (1785), the show demonstrates how Rococo's jubilant extravagance was overthrown by a severe Neoclassicism that accentuated the moral climate of the final years of the monarchy's regime.
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But despite the odd extravagance, these spoken forewords of Fry's constitute one of the set's major pleasures, illuminated by informed enthusiasm and personal revelation: In one he rather touchingly recounts how his first encounter with Holmes, at a very early age, changed his life, leading him on to truancy, expulsion from school and, finally, briefly, prison.
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Beyond the accusations of the Hunters' graft and extravagance -- from in-cabin flights for the family's pet bunny to an $14,000 Italian vacation financed with campaign funds -- the indictment has opened Hunter to intense scrutiny from the many current and former service members who live in California's 50th District, where veterans compose nearly 10% of eligible voters.
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Later one token will be selected at random and its owner will win the dinner and the extravagance that comes with it, including a three-night all expenses paid trip for two to Singapore, chauffeured Rolls-Royce transportation and a three-hour sunset cruise before the meal is served at 22018,22018 feet in a private jet.
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"Al Jazeera fulfilled its mission: making Qatar a household name, influencing politics, at one point it was a powerful tool of foreign policy but all of that is over now," he said, adding that current low oil prices had given the Qatari leadership an excuse to end "the extravagance of Jazeera which has lost credibility in parts of the Arab world".
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This extravagance, along with the show's then-massive budget of more than $4 million, good buzz coming from London, hit recordings of "Memory" already burning up the airwaves, and the public's anticipation of the next big Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, all resulted in a clamor for Cats that drove what was then one of the largest advance sales in Broadway history.
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Dressed all in black, with her face hidden behind Cutler & Gross sunglasses, she would take large sheets of paper out with her in the evening and draw in situ: first in hashish-scented jazz dives and the strip joints of Soho; later at the Blitz club, where London's New Romantics took pains to outdo one another in the wild extravagance of their dress.
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Actually, that's easy: Now that the clean beauty movement has spread far beyond the Whole Foods aisle (which is looking pretty great lately, by the way) and well into the prestige realm, replacing your most beloved high-end products of sadly dubious safety with greener, more natural solutions of equal extravagance, like the ones ahead, is just a matter of typing in your Amex security code.
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Anna Cathcart, Janel Parrish, and Lana Condor in To All the Boys I've Loved Before If the escapism in Crazy Rich Asians rests on the assertion that Asian American characters are just as deserving of aspirationally gorgeous romps through unquestioned extravagance as any of their predecessors in the genre, To All the Boys I've Loved Before opts instead for a more willfully limited act of wish fulfillment.
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In one corner-office area, you'll find objects that justify themselves by sheer extravagance: an example of the artist Nick Cave's ornate costume-sculpture-assemblages, this one involving textiles sewn with china plates; Takuro Kuwata's five-foot-tall conical sculpture in black porcelain and covered with five-inch-thick chunks of pink glaze (think monumental craquelure), and a big colorful see-through abstraction on pigmented urethane by Alex Hubbard.
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But his bluster inevitably kindles suspicions that the League and the M5S, neither of which is committed to euro membership, may be plotting to extricate Italy from the shared currency, if not the EU. A third possible explanation is that Mr Di Maio, whose party is nominally the senior partner in the coalition government, is trying to regain the initiative by outbidding Mr Salvini in the extravagance of his threats and demands.
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Many of the world's wealthiest don't indulge in extravagance, even with billions at their disposal (and when they do, it's not always a happy ending.) While this ranges in degrees of neuroticism from simply wanting to give most of the fortune to charity to an Indian tech mogul monitoring employees to track toilet paper usage and make sure they shut off the office lights, wealth is not accumulated by throwing money away.
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A right off Chief Bill Harris Way and a quick left led to Corporate Drive, where a location scout had seen fit to turn a former Olympus headquarters—"Certain required positions will relocate, and it is our intention to consider any of those employees as a good candidate for the relocated positions or for new locations," a company representative had asserted, in the tortured flackspeak of the summer of 2008—into Axe Capital, a showcase of Fairfield County extravagance.
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While V Diamonds has scrapped the ICO plans, Tilani says World of Diamonds would still accept bitcoin as a form of payment if a buyer elected to pay the $2 million for the ring, dinner and the extravagance that comes with it — including a three-night all expenses paid trip for two to Singapore, chauffeured Rolls-Royce transportation and a three-hour sunset cruise before the meal is served at 30,000 feet in a private jet.
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Yet because of its straight-out-of-Laurel-Canyon-circa-1969 look, combined with a charitable element (Salt has a partnership with artisans from the La Guajira region of Colombia, according to its website, and donates a portion of its proceeds to the Wayúu Tayá Foundation, a Colombian nonprofit), the strap, in a way, "counters or at least reduces the extravagance of the bag," said Carolyn Mair, a psychologist and founder of a consultancy firm, Psychology.fashion.
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Ostensibly inspired by the opulence and gilded extravagance of circus wagons produced from 1824 to 1940 by the Bode Wagon Company in Cincinnati, the show was, in fact, a safe and predictable riff on the whimsy Ms. Bode has mined before from folk art, found objects and vintage textiles (no designer has ever gotten more mileage out of an old tablecloth.) What struck this observer, though, was the research Ms. Bode conducted at the archives of the Ringling museum in Sarasota, Fla.
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