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ostentatious
1. "Not as ostentatious a display of wealth as that boat
2. The trucks rumble on through the suburban outskirts of Abu Jeba, heading toward the faraway city with it’s plethora of irrigated date palms, ostentatious skyline, it’s tacky, marble festooned buildings
3. Conclusion: From now on Themis is not only uninterested in me but he also ignores me completely! A week later I will repeat the magic ritual -in vain; I could as well say the situation is getting worse and worse: Now Themis is courting all women in our class except me, especially when I am present! He is flirting everyone but me! He even arranges outings or day trips with them in such an ostentatious manner that I -as well as the whole gym- can hear everything; needless to say, I am never given the chance to be a member of that enviable party
4. They dined with minor royalty, with famous politicians and with an impressively ostentatious banker
5. Delurna really couldn’t have a place outside the walls with his position, and while his position was important, he could easily be resented and could not be allowed a place that was too ostentatious
6. He employed more interesting building details for the facade and added a bell tower of sorts, nothing ostentatious just well adapted to the balance and symmetry of the structure
7. The proud minister of an ostentatious court, may frequently take pleasure in executing a work of splendour and magnificence, such as a great highway, which is frequently seen by the principal nobility, whose applauses not only flatter his vanity, but even contribute to support his interest at court
8. was ostentatious and a waste of money
9. That night as the team listened and watched Simon come into his flat they suddenly heard a high pitched noise then a bright flash that knocked out all the listening devises and cameras in one quick ostentatious blaze
10. Colling thought it would be a little ostentatious to take cash from the envelope Quarles had given him, so he kept it in his inside coat pocket
11. She did not react immediately to this news, but then said, “Won’t driving around Poland in a Mercedes be a bit ostentatious?”
12. ” It was an unmistakable obtrusiveness and ostentatious confident swagger that could have been none other than Rockefeller … Rockefeller had entered the building!
13. The truly unnatural aspect of these ostentatious lovers of nature is their assumption that the climate of the earth can be commanded to remain static through the destruction, not only of democratic and industrial society, but also of the entire human race
14. showy and somewhat ostentatious style, is surrounded by magnificent gardens and is today shown to the
15. Makati throbs with life: clamorous and busy side-walks, stirring commercial centers, elegant stores, ostentatious galleries and some of the residences and hotels of the greatest value and luxury in the country
16. But he didn’t want it to appear ostentatious, and he worried about what his other executives would think
17. Pops’s second requirement to eliminate ostentatious show was that the tires not look expensive
18. He certainly appreciated fine things—and collected some of them—but he did not lead the ostentatious life he could have led
19. He wasn't worried, because he knew his actions, mostly hidden by his bulky body and the tree, had been fast, fluid, and not ostentatious
20. Lowly as I am, I have tried to avoid the sin of ostentatious fashion, and to dress in accordance with Benedict's Rules
21. so ostentatious, I guess that's the word
22. In addition to wearing two different gold watches, one during the day and one at night, the woman had been ostentatious about her wealth to all those on the ship, and her favourite talk of conversation was asking questions to portfolio managers or bankers on the ship about possible stock market investments in hedge funds requiring a million dollars as their minimum investing amount
23. His stiff gestures discredited the ostentatious position that as Regent Magician was exercising
24. He gazed around in ostentatious appreciation as he made his way across, hand out like a prow cutting through calm seas
25. The interior, although as hugely ostentatious as before, began to suggest ways in which it could be rendered less impersonal
26. Wall niches boasted detailed bronze sculptures of animals and humans in violent conflict, and ostentatious, gilt-framed paintings of lakes, forests and mountains decorated the walls
27. But Jesus did not refer to outward or ostentatious mourning
28. The meaningless and menial practices of an ostentatious and false humility are incompatible with the appreciation of the source of your salvation and the recognition of the destiny of your spirit-born souls
29. Woe upon you Pharisees who have persisted in rejecting the light of life! You are meticulous in tithing and ostentatious in almsgiving, but you knowingly spurn the visitation of God and reject the revelation of his love
30. But spirit communion is not promoted by mere massive ornateness and overmuch embellishment with man's elaborate and ostentatious art
31. It gave a feeling of wealth but not ostentatious
32. With her makeup a clever combination of grey and hunter green to complement her simple riding clothes that she had chosen since her gowns would be too ostentatious for mourning, Lady Jane stood attentively at his side as she stared straight ahead and seemed acutely annoyed by the proceedings, though she maintained her formal, proper grace and viewed the proceedings with the proper expressions of bereavement over the death of someone she had apparently not even known
33. deco-style cruise ship, as compared to the previously ostentatious and
34. Weiss was a braggart and overtime he acquired more wealth than his father, who he let know in the most ostentatious ways
35. competitiveness, the hand-stitched suits, ostentatious motor cars and business lunches were
36. Dating from around 7,000 BCE, still well before Cheops’ ostentatious last resting place (if that’s what it was), none of the several constructions, which remain almost totally intact, were places of worship to any god
37. The money deception was to purposefully deprive others of health, food, and shelter because the Zowners wanted to pursue and experience greater novelties of pleasure, power, and indulgence, in ostentatious attempts, again and again, to achieve varying forms of Immortal Transcendence
38. Why was the last Robber Baron castle on Earth called the ‘Hearst Castle’? Because it signaled the death of all ostentatious Robber Barons who lived in opulence
39. That these huge ostentatious palaces are culturally meaningful
40. Despite his wealth he was not ostentatious and wore on his wrist a cheap Timex, telling me when I noticed that it is not the value of the watch that is important, but the value of what the watch represents
41. She often suspected she could fit Creteloc’s entire home into his office, and it seemed ostentatious, but so were so many other things in Paragoy
42. His ostentatious lifestyle later in life is well documented
43. Stryver, preparing him with ostentatious friendliness for the disclosure he was about to make, "because I know you don't mean half you say; and if you meant it all, it would be of no importance
44. Cruncher could not be restrained from making rather an ostentatious parade of his liberality--"I'd catch hold of your throat and choke you for half a guinea
45. ostentatious display of it; for the cultivation of the fine arts, or literature, had not introduced into the first circles that polish of manners which renders the rich so essentially superior to the poor in Europe
46. company, I was disgusted by an ostentatious display of riches, and I have often
47. He lived in a large, but hardly ostentatious house
48. It was a white charger with hooves the size of meat dishes and leather harness aglitter with ostentatious gold ornamentation
49. He took an ostentatious relish in the civility of his dealings with his ex-wife and family
50. The baron, followed by the count, traversed a long series of apartments, in which the prevailing characteristics were heavy magnificence and the gaudiness of ostentatious wealth, until he reached the boudoir of Madame Danglars—a small octagonal-shaped room, hung with pink satin, covered with white Indian muslin