The novel as a whole is less biographical and is instead more focused on relating extravagant tales of the life of St. Francis and his followers.

He's full of extravagant tales.

However, many of the most extravagant French tales are by women.

Critiques of court life (and even of the king) were embedded in extravagant tales and in dark, sharply dystopian ones.

Arabian trade is also heavy, and extravagant tales are told of the fabulous and wondrous realm of the Sultans.

A few have the rare psychiatric condition called Munchausen's syndrome, after an 18th-century German nobleman who traveled widely and told extravagant tales about his escapades.

You may tell the truth, in which case your wild and extravagant tale will reinforce their suspicions and will be enough to convict you of almost anything, even murder.

How truthful were his extravagant tales?

Hands down the funniest web comic, an extravagant tale of oversexed cats, retarded otters, robots and the like, with dialogue that rarely ventures far from comic genius.

Most men agonize over this, and we sympathize - today's media is flooded with countless extravagant, creative tales that have set the bar incredibly high.