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How to use ostentation in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ostentation? Here are some examples.

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Complaining about this kind of ostentation, and this evidence of conspicuous consumption, of course makes one sound like Scrooge.
His dream project is a monumental display of force and ostentation that has precious little value as a piece of drama or popular history.
By the beginning of the twentieth century the representative symbols of luxury and ostentation had come full circle.
Unusually for a hotel of such quality, Pool House is run almost entirely by the charming owner family, and without a hint of ostentation.
Gabel cues with care but without ostentation, he addresses sections of the orchestra and he stays with them.
But his dominance, like Smiley's, arises from a quiet natural authority that disdains the tasteless excesses of ostentation and histrionics.
Perhaps through such long experience, the hotel somehow manages to both reek of exclusivity and wealth while dodging gaudy ostentation.
After all, ostentation and luxury do not translate into a truly modern city.
But they had to be careful not to show their wealth with too much ostentation.
The pomposity and ostentation of the rich seems to heighten the sense of our ultimate worthlessness.
It is clear that these costumes were worn as tokens of stately ostentation and to display the authority of the wearer.
I found him kind and benignant in the domestic circle, revered and beloved by all around him, agreeably social, without ostentation.
The dandy rejected ostentation in favor of clean lines, somber materials and colors, impeccable cut, and perfect fit.
Stylish Mike doesn't like it if you suggest that his enthusiasms are all about ostentation and conspicuous consumption.
He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power.
John Calvin's faith offers predestined salvation for a lucky few and requires adherents to work hard and shun ostentation.
With her personal choice of furniture and wall fabrics, Isabelle has taken great care to provide a rich decor but without ostentation.
To others, a gaudy and vulgar display of ostentation and insincere orotundity.
Renovated in 2000, this building is the very image of class, without ostentation, a refined professionalism.
He might see the big car you've been using as a sign of success, not ostentation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Reflecting, by your ostentation, upon all the ladies in the county, who do not as you do.
Her brown-gold hair was disposed of with the least ostentation possible and with no fluffiness.
Heisterbergk827 thinks that the latifundia were not produced by economic causes, but by vanity and ostentation.
The cluniac revival had been followed by the cluniac laxity, splendour, and ostentation.
The man nearest him, combing his beard with ostentation, burst into a laugh.
In such isolation there is no rivalry of ostentation, and men care only to live.
Clarence slipped out of the stage and entered the bar-room with some ostentation.
That was the only ostentation about him, and his quiet, well-cut clothes were in good taste.
Their consumptions are accidental ostentation and extravagance, not a normal consummation or fulfilment of activity.
In Spain, it is celebrated with all the pomp and ostentation imaginable.
This was no time, he remarked, for publicity and ostentation.
He was middle-aged, pursy, and dressed with slap-dash ostentation.
For excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
There was no ostentation or superciliousness about Mrs. Washington.
For myself, I must say that I like absence of all ostentation.
There is a great deal of ostentation and bombastic pomp about it.
In fame of learning, the flight will be slow without some feathers of ostentation.
There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities.
The uruguayan is curiously free from all evidence of this ostentation.
The antagonist, ostentation, extends above and below the letters ost.
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