Extravaganza

The Oscar ceremonies are Hollywood's biggest extravaganza.

It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody— told it to me because "Jay Gatsby" had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice and the long secret extravaganza was played out.

The film was a special-effects extravaganza.

The ingenious method was hit upon of dove-tailing extravaganza and pantomime. A long burlesque, the characters in which have nothing to do with the harlequinade, terminates with one of those elaborate and gorgeous displays which have acquired the name of “Transformation Scenes.”

It grew out of the Victorian “extravaganza” style, which took serious opera and literature and applied broad comic satire (usually with music) that played to the masses.

It starts with The Visitors, an icy, electronic track in which authoritarian agents hammer on the door of a fearful dissident – not the Abba you expected to come calling in this trailblazing, retro-futurist extravaganza of a show.

The bride had her heart set on a simple wedding, but her parents insisted on a three-hundred-guest extravaganza.

I find myself on Christmas day with people who are so tedious that a trip to the john appears an extravaganza by comparison.

Maybe he’s throwing a Great Gatsby–themed cocktail hour as part of his wedding extravaganza!