He was accustomed to efficient, businesslike surroundings, not ostentatiousness for its own take. From Wordnik.com. [The I Inside]
After all, this highly ornamented style reflects the ostentatiousness of Baroque aristocratic culture. From Wordnik.com. [Dessay Takes Handel for a Ride, with Poetry] Reference
They should include social dissuasion against conspicuous consumption, ostentatiousness and corruption. From Wordnik.com. [BUILDING A NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY [STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE ANC]] Reference
“I always thought Bram had ostentatiousness down to a fine art, but you make him look like an amateur.”. From Wordnik.com. [Entice Me at Twilight] Reference
Earlier Zen-inspired stress on refinement and simplicity gave way to shows of great pomp and to ostentatiousness. From Wordnik.com. [4. Japan, 1542-1793] Reference
Their proximity to a village of migrant construction workers across the street makes their ostentatiousness all the more striking. From Wordnik.com. [Welfare Changes Jolt German Society] Reference
I was okay with Ozy's costume looking like it did, since that level of...ostentatiousness, I guess, seems fitting to the character. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-02] Reference
"Over the last few years ostentatiousness was in and having space in the top of towers with phenomenal Central Park views was highly coveted," said Ben Friedland. From Wordnik.com. ['Space Available: Had Been a Hedge Fund'] Reference
In digging through the strata of accusations focused on artifice -- dubious motivation, false presentation, ostentatiousness -- it should have become clear that the underlying suspicion being voiced is that the writer's "artifice" is covering a shallow concern with status, that the primary purpose of the work is to establish the writer's superiority. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
I ask if pomposity & ostentatiousness be squared with being meek and christian-like.?. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Balance of the Caribbean Euro-Latin America Summit] Reference
In fact, everything about her and her supporting cast suggested ostentatiousness and exaggeration. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
Pittsfield Cafe while gawking at the magnificent Gothic ostentatiousness of the Pittsfield's five-story atrium?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Fiorina brought panache to HP: she combined the showmanship of Steve Jobs with a dash of Donald Trump's ostentatiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Independent Bloggers' Alliance] Reference
His ostentatiousness and contempt are easy to read in the writing, but what I didn't expect was the amount of wistfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Crate Digging Revealed] Reference
It's easy to take potshots at Winner; his bustling pomposity, his ostentatiousness, his name-dropping Sophia Loren, clunk!. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
To me, that captures a quintessential American spirit, one that disdains ostentatiousness, even in a regimented military culture. From Wordnik.com. [of Battlefields and Bibliophiles] Reference
Elitism and ostentatiousness versus down home values and American capitalism (as represented by e-bay). upinak on September 4, 2008 at 2: 48 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
Yet the Knicks ring is perhaps the only one in his collection that's suitable for day-to-day wear, given the baubles 'gradual increases in size and ostentatiousness over the years. From Wordnik.com. [Examiner California Headlines] Reference
In no country have fashion and ostentatiousness taken such strong possession of the masses, and the willingness to be satisfied with a moderate income is therefore nowhere so little at home. From Wordnik.com. [Psychology and Social Sanity] Reference
Other than a perfunctory acknowledgment of thanks to the U.S. government for its assistance, Goldman apparently hasn't learned a thing, certainly not about humility or avoiding ostentatiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference
The vehicle that once represented American muscle, capitalism and and sheer ostentatiousness has been sold to the country whose communist philosophy represents the antithesis of what the USA represents. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The Finnish mobile phone maker has designed the new Nokia 8800 Royal Edition model to outpace its predecessors in terms of ostentatiousness, although it can not be considered better looking all the way up. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia News - Global] Reference
They are corrected with tenderness, nursed with the most affectionate care, clad with that decent plainness, from which they observe their parents never to depart: in short, by the force of example, which is superior even to the strongest instinct of nature, more than by precepts, they learn to follow the steps of their parents, to despise ostentatiousness as being sinful. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from an American Farmer] Reference
A heroism without ostentatiousness, discreet, often utterly silent, civil, indeed civilized, a heroism that has become civic. From Wordnik.com. [Jaroslav Seifert - Nobel Lecture] Reference
This polonaise illustrates not only the most brilliant, but also the least lovable features of the Polish character ” ostentatiousness and exaggerated rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
I guess I’m not a fan of ostentatiousness for vainglorious displays’ sake!. From Wordnik.com. [NOKI – House of Sustainability | Inhabitat] Reference
And again he had called out from the bottom of the first flight of stairs, just close to the Hodgsons 'door ( "such ostentatiousness," as. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Woman and other Tales] Reference
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