When the 16th-century Florentine painter and writer Giorgio Vasari referred to Dürer's "extravagant imagination," he had "Apocalypse" in mind.

CB has a freewheeling, extravagant imagination, the boyish scatalogical thang going on and (I suspect) a really big heart.

"Your wife is clearly blessed with a typically extravagant feminine imagination."

His extravagant imagination stays very much under wraps, along with his opulent vocabulary.

It's a routine sandal-and-toga recital of an early, infelicitously written work that, more than its betters in the canon, demands extravagant imagination and passion to rouse audiences.

If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the thing.

He left a number of plays full of extravagant imagination.

Powell's long, stuttering line helps his extravagant imagination encompass the practical troubles long illness entails.

The Messalinas of these books are highly fictionalized and subject to Jarry's fanciful and extravagant imagination.

More often, he is drawing on his extravagant imagination.