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But when she's on, Byatt's writing "leaps and pirouettes, shimmies and shivers" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ) and has an "aura of extravagant ingenuity" (David Barber, the Boston Globe ). A few find the tales a bit too similar--there is a theme throughout of the conflict between the warm southern temperament and the cold northern one--but most deem the sameness unimportant when the writing is so superb.
In the Times , Jeff Gerth implies that illegal campaign donations from China + the extravagant campaign donations by Loral Space & Communications' chief executive to Democratic coffers = Clinton's OK of U.S. satellite launches.
The bourgeoisie showed off its new prosperity with extravagant furnishings, silks, satins, and baubles, and in 1852 Paris opened its first department store, Au Bon Marché.
In Johannesburg, South Africa, the Saturday Star published one of many extravagant eulogies of President Nelson Mandela as he celebrated both his 80 th birthday and his marriage to Graça Machel.
Members of a rebellious 16th-century French faction were called Guisards because of their extravagant get-ups; the word has become a common, if rarely used, noun for a masquerader or mummer.