Part of this is born of necessity: American states are facing their worst budget deficits in decades, so there isn't much money to lavish on great projects.
None of these ships, even the most lavish on earth, offer nearly the facilities of the Four Seasons Bora Bora, yet some cost literally 20 times as much per person.
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They might be the warmest people in the world, who would lavish on their adopted child the sort of palpable love advertised in greeting cards and on the collars of stuffed puppies.
For the present it is her fellow Republicans those who are seeking the nomination, that is who have the greater cause for concern, if only because the attention the media lavish on the Sage of Wasilla drowns out their own messages.
Today we are playing doubles on the red Har-Tru at the Mar-a-Lago Club, Donald Trump's lavish idyll on the Palm Beach waterfront.
Many had long wondered how he supported a lavish lifestyle on a politician's salary.
Lavish praise on the people who have helped you accomplish your own small part of the group enterprise.
Lavish spending on rural welfare since 2004, when the Congress party won power in Delhi, will also help.
Actors' salaries remain depressed, and indies have become expert at exploiting competition between states and countries, which lavish subsidies on them.
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At the party's centenary conference next week, Mr Blair will doubtless do his duty and lavish praise on Labour's glorious past.
Despite his captain's ringing endorsement, the 26-year-old refused to take all the plaudits, preferring instead to lavish praise on his fellow bowlers.
You might expect them to be living the high life of swanky penthouse suites, flashy sports cars, private jets, and lavish parties on the weekends.
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He did lavish attention on particular sheets, both those on which he worked out his most complex ideas and those he gave as presents to beloved friends.
If the government can afford to lavish millions on ministerial cars and salaries, it can fork out a few more rand for its public servants, they argue.
Chastened, they rustled up 87 contracts, to build 10, 300 homes, which Mr Covas signed at a lavish ceremony on November 30th, while homeless groups protested outside his palace.
Whether critics lash out or lavish praise on the movie, they will expect to see film fans propel it to box office success as the latest in a billion-dollar franchise.
The flood of money that came to Cyprus got channeled toward the usual excesses: lavish homes on the southern coast, bank branches in the former Soviet bloc, Greek government bonds.
Well, Mr Osborne sees it the other way round - saying that Mr Carney had made an important choice to leave behind the even more lavish rewards on offer at Goldman.
It's easy to see why legions of loyalists lavish love on 24-year-old Tim Tebow, who leads his underdog Denver Broncos in a crucial playoff game against the New England Patriots on Saturday night.
The city's lavish spending on the expo is all the more striking given how lacklustre a brand World Expos (or World's Fairs as they are sometimes known) have become in the developed world.
The debate now raging in the Diet and within political parties, is not just about how to finance the costs of old age social programs, but also about the morality of allowing lavish spending on old people to create a burden for their children and grandchildren.
Like the European designers, he put on lavish shows featuring clothes that only models could wear.
And nothing new for even richer men to lavish a fortune on signature and-or vanity projects.
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They are also scaling back on lavish banquets and taking public transport to cut costs, the newspaper adds.
Microsoft even got Nik Nayar, Target's VP for merchandising, to lavish abundant praise on the device in its press release.
Besides, the Poles will argue, the commission's formula would lavish extra money on relatively rich countries, like the Czech Republic.
This Texan prefers not to lavish further largesse on Louisiana to compensate for the incompetents its voters insist on electing.
The powerful Russian mafia barons behind this booming illegal business lavish their money on flashy mansions in the region's capital, Dalnerechensk.
Governments, it is true, continue to lavish fine words on basic science.
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