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The 14,500-square-foot center will be a multimedia extrava ganza with high-tech gadgetry, including flight simulators and life-size soldier video games.

An Army of Fun: Video Game to Lure Recruits | Disinformation 2008

There were no Christmas cards in 1843 England, no Christmas trees at royal residences or White Houses, no Christmas turkeys, no department-store Santa or his million clones, no outpouring of "Yuletide greetings," no weeklong cessation of business affairs through the New Year, no orgy of gift-giving, no ubiquitous public display of nativity scenes (or court fights regarding them), no holiday lighting extrava-ganzas, and no plethora of midnight services celebrating the birth of a savior.

"The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' Rescued his Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits" 2008

In a curious way, Andromache thought, the lack of extrava-gant gems actually made Laodike more attractive, as if the glittering beauty of the gems served only to emphasize her plainness.

Lord of the Silver Bow Gemmell, David 2005

But even so, their articles often missed the point and were both too conservative and too extrava - gant.

True Names Vinge, Vernor 1984

And the voice that replies is who but that Red, the shoeshine boy who's slicked up Slothrop's black patents a dozen times down on his knees jes poppin 'dat rag to beat the band ... now Red the very tall, skinny, extrava - gantly conked redhead Negro shoeshine boy who's just been "Red" to all the Harvard fellas - "Say Red, any of those Sheiks in the drawer?"

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Aside from my extrava gance on the record player, I led a Spartan existence and barely had enough greens to feed Ray, never mind any females.

Brother Ray Charles, Ray, 1930-2004. cn 1978

From this confusion deism grew either as a rejection of sectarian extrava -

DEISM ROGER L. EMERSON 1968

Yet the most extrava - gant monument of Christian allegory applied to my - thology is, in the following century, the work of a

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN SEZNEC 1968

Americans were said to be losing their traditional virtues — industry, frugality, and the like — and tending towards luxury and extrava - gance.

DEMOCRACY STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD 1968

That this extrava - ganza claims to be (and to some extent is) based on

STYLE IN LITERATURE R. A. SAYCE 1968