Robert O. Boorstin claims that this philosophy and explanation are "somewhat extravagant."

Large and somewhat extravagant even for its time, it did not sell as well as Cadillac, but nonetheless earned high reviews from motoring periodicals of the day.

According to Luther's audit, The Pumpkin Seed had collected $318 from the Kranks last Christmas for cards, and at the moment it did seem somewhat extravagant.

"Even so, most people regard us as somewhat extravagant, and the notion of having someone come to your home to cook is considered a bit much."

The stop opened around 1880 with a small building, which was replaced in 1899 by a larger station somewhat extravagant for a largely seasonal location.

Confederation Chamber has been preserved with the names of the august delegates, a very dignified setting for an affair that was in fact characterized by somewhat extravagant wining and dining.

The tropical lady's slipper orchids, paphiopedilums, may require a somewhat extravagant initial financial outlay, but linger a long time and send up blossoms in an east or west window.

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.

But it did seem a somewhat extravagant way to make tea, not unlike the reputed Chinese method of roasting pig by burning down the entire house.

There were other hopes, too, some of them somewhat extravagant.