So what happens when a child - that repository of extravagant hopes - turns out to be not only different but less than normal?

"I am at the age of extravagant hopes, monseigneur," said d'Artagnan.

It is necessary also to warn the beginner against indulging extravagant hopes.

Set against the extravagant hopes of parents for their offspring, this first novel asks what happens when a child turns out to be less than normal.

No surprise, then, that they look to the United States with such extravagant hope.

"If that is so, then this find exceeds our most extravagant hopes."

The president, Mikhail Saakashvili, 36, has warned against extravagant hopes.

With the commencement of the new reign it seemed that his most extravagant hopes were being realized.

However, Lämmlein died or suddenly disappeared and the extravagant hopes of his followers came to an end.

Suppose we could attain our most extravagant hopes.