extravagance

Theoretically, that prospect should deter Hezbollah’s extravagance—but, in real life, will it?

A Silicon Valley school district announced this week that it was pausing a contract worth tens of thousands of dollars with an “energy healer” who was providing meditation sessions for administrators after parents protested over what they saw as a budgetary extravagance.

Delyth said she sat down with Beca every week to look over her budget and finances and the only "extravagance" her daughter ever included was having her hair and nails done.

The row comes amid concerns by critics that taxpayers' money has been used to fund extravagance in government while taxes have been raised on the basis that the state needs extra funding.

It thrives on the rowdy spectacle of real divorcing couples fighting over the same red-meat sins of at-fault divorce — adultery, extravagance, neglect, anger, all with vulgar language and shouting that no real courtroom would tolerate.