prodigality
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The Void of Azuzel was originally designed to punish prodigality, avarice’s mirror image, and vanity, pride reflected back on itself.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2021
In point of extravagance and notoriety, the most celebrated of the feasts was that arranged by Tigellinus; which I shall describe as a type, instead of narrating time and again the monotonous tale of prodigality.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
And her most resourceful construction is the novel itself, a feat of narrative prodigality that staves off, word by word, the destruction of an entire community.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2015
“Great nations are never impoverished by private, though they sometimes are by public prodigality and misconduct.”
From Forbes ● Sep. 28, 2014
Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Well, she may make something, and offset her husband's prodigalities."
From The Fruit of the Tree by Alonzo Kimball
Nevertheless the emperor could handle all this latter money exactly as he chose, and it is upon this chest that Nero was drawing for all his lavish prodigalities and his undeserved and wasteful bounties.
From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
The new Sultan converted Cordova into a second Baghdad, and imitated the prodigalities of the great Harūn-er-Rashīd, who had recently left the scene of his fantastic amusements for, let us hope, a better world.
From The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole
Instinct, nature, a divine, an impersonal activity, heal in us the wounds made by our own follies; the invisible genius of our life is never tired of providing material for the prodigalities of the self.
From Amiel's Journal by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Nothing is more frequent and more afflicting than those insensate, barren prodigalities which we have now described, and which always entail ruin, loss of consideration, baseness, or infamy.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Eugène Sue
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The Great Gatsby
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Novel Study: The Great Gatsby, Chapters 1–6
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