“He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.”
“It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.”
“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”
“t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while there may be just wars and unjust wars, there are never any cheap wars.”
“Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.”
“May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.”