An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.    From LearnThat.org.  [Bern Williams.]

We were surprised by the extravagance of his description.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He pinches me in money matters so closely, and grumbles so eternally at what he calls my extravagance, that I'm out of all patience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Wives] Reference

That spirit of extravagance is detrimental to the interests of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Industrial Development of the Last West] Reference

My really great and exciting extravagance is that I travel first class even when.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philippa Gregory Answers Questions About Her Life, Her Writing and Specifically about Her Books Depicting the Lives of Henry VIII's Wives.] Reference

He was the son of a merchant, who, having spent his substance in extravagance and dissipation, had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference

His magnificent extravagance is well exemplified in the small palace he built for the Empress Eugénie, and which has never been occupied since.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Months in the Soudan] Reference

My extravagance is a question of nearly twenty years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fenton's Quest] Reference

Perhaps in their extravagance has been their greatest charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clovernook, or, Recollections of our neighborhood in the West] Reference

He deprecates in strong terms the extravagance of some members of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective] Reference

"Orchard" is a bit of name extravagance for a group of only three apple trees.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The original idea of Christmas was not the action of competing in extravagance.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Make A Christmas Speech] Reference

So what others may call extravagance he may not see it as extravagance, but he's rich.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2007] Reference

There is an insane extravagance, which is a sham; and horrible squalor behind the scenery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hullabaloo] Reference

The extravagance is the more startling because their exploits form part of quasi-historical narratives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1] Reference

But Mr. Hardy has the honour of inventing a new sort of game, which may be called the extravagance of depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Victorian Age in Literature] Reference

He had a special aversion to "goodness of heart," which he regarded as another name for a quality properly called extravagance or vice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel Johnson] Reference

He had a special aversion to “goodness of heart,” which he regarded as another name for a quality properly called extravagance or vice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel Johnson]

The prose shouldn’t go beyond the necessary, extravagance is wasteful and show-offy, everything needs to be neat and trim like an suburban garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [On John Updike « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

His only personal extravagance is his car.    From Wordnik.com.  [All news is BAD news until told otherwise « Bored Mommy] Reference

The "extravagance" related to President Thabo Mbeki's visit to.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Maybe that kind of extravagance can't be maintained in our current age of austerity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Offensive Facebook groups such as Raoul Moat's are 10 a penny. Yet sympathy is in short supply] Reference

Thanks a million 'is excellent, but it has an American extravagance which is unbecoming in Canadian mouths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada and Jordan] Reference

For all the "extravagance" pf Derek's style, his was a very specific and concentrated artistic sensibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wittgenstein] Reference

While some complained about her "extravagance" she was inclined to wear plain clothes more fitting to propriety than to showiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-11] Reference

But while most people will eventually need new cars, RVs are the kind of extravagance consumers tend to forgo when they feel financially pinched.    From Wordnik.com.  [The RV Lifestyle on $4 a Gallon] Reference

It had seemed so natural that the young men of her own class should dissipate their fortunes and their reputations by every kind of extravagance!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duke's Children] Reference

Love, our one extravagance is certainly coals.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

According to CNN, phone service is an, "extravagance"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [cryptogon.com] Reference

The words 'extravagance' and 'spending spree' feature strongly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines] Reference

So what do the mainstream media say about Obama's inaugural "extravagance"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

So what do the mainstream media say about Obama's inaugural 'extravagance'?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Booker Rising] Reference

The mind-boggling myopia it takes to call something like this an "extravagance" mystifies me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grist - the Latest from Grist] Reference

Enervated by luxury, they soon forgot their vows, and rushed into every kind of extravagance and dissipation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX.] Reference

AAPT's boss calls government-funded fibre-to-the-home an "extravagance", saying "the economics never stack up".    From Wordnik.com.  [National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand] Reference

In the first place, the Pupil learns every kind of extravagance, which he practises en maitre the two next years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference

Such sayings will not bear to be deliberately read and thought over, but any kind of extravagance or oddity came from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference

"The time for that kind of extravagance may be over, but I have my eye on the perfect little gaudy, tasteless McStudio.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Onion] Reference

"extravagance"? she asked herself, for the first time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference

"extravagance", etc. As she was painfully self-conscious in the presence of others as a result, this was a hidden reason for sticking to her home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Housewife] Reference