1.   He had always been against this extravagant gesture, he pointed out, and now he was being proved right.

2.   In an attempt to impress, he would resort to extravagant gestures or issue bombastic claims -- though these were restricted to his close circle of intimates.

3.   And at a tense meeting with local officials and factory directors, Yeltsin made the most extravagant gesture of all.

4.   Architecture is lighter, more frivolous, contains more extravagant gestures.

5.   George Steinbrenner, so given to extravagant gestures, agreed to pick up the tab for his education.

6.   His enormous wealth is supposed to account for his peculiar life style and his taste for extravagant gestures.

7.   It would be a pretty extravagant gesture, but it would definitely impress your correspondents.

8.   Not unusual for Sekiguchi, he followed up this extravagant gesture with a quieter one.

9.   The practical point of this extravagant esthetic gesture was to protect the house from flooding.