extravagancy

The Chinese regard the West's failure to make use of excrement as "extreme extravagancy," says Wittwer.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had thought all such extravagancy perished with the Launcelot and Palomides of your book.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell

A more curious extravagancy was uttered to me by a professor of applied mathematics.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

No enthusiasm ever reached to such a pitch of extravagancy as that: a spirit may be an illusion; a body is a real thing, an object of sense, in which there can be no mistake.

From Evidence of Christianity by William Paley

Wherefore, they, looking upon what the captains did to be, as they called it, a fruit of the extravagancy of their wild and foolish fancies, rather despised them than feared them.'

From Bunyan by James Anthony Froude

Long gone are the extravagancies of Granit Xhaka, in exchange for a far more acceptable and even-tempered Rice, who is a far better footballer anyway.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2024

But Venus Observed is modern, sophisticated, drawing-room bred, .and its ironies, at times, stare down its extravagancies as arrant trespassers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such extravagancies cannot but detract from scientific validity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Overman was an extreme Radical, “but his political extravagancies were amply condoned by his warmth and kindliness of heart.”

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie

When such extravagancies of feeling and language are indulged in the hearing of kings and their advisers, they should be received as warnings to resist, and not to submit.

From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by John William Cole