Complaining about this kind of ostentation, and this evidence of conspicuous consumption, of course makes one sound like Scrooge. |
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His dream project is a monumental display of force and ostentation that has precious little value as a piece of drama or popular history. |
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By the beginning of the twentieth century the representative symbols of luxury and ostentation had come full circle. |
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Unusually for a hotel of such quality, Pool House is run almost entirely by the charming owner family, and without a hint of ostentation. |
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Gabel cues with care but without ostentation, he addresses sections of the orchestra and he stays with them. |
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But his dominance, like Smiley's, arises from a quiet natural authority that disdains the tasteless excesses of ostentation and histrionics. |
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Perhaps through such long experience, the hotel somehow manages to both reek of exclusivity and wealth while dodging gaudy ostentation. |
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After all, ostentation and luxury do not translate into a truly modern city. |
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But they had to be careful not to show their wealth with too much ostentation. |
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The pomposity and ostentation of the rich seems to heighten the sense of our ultimate worthlessness. |
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It is clear that these costumes were worn as tokens of stately ostentation and to display the authority of the wearer. |
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I found him kind and benignant in the domestic circle, revered and beloved by all around him, agreeably social, without ostentation. |
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The dandy rejected ostentation in favor of clean lines, somber materials and colors, impeccable cut, and perfect fit. |
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Stylish Mike doesn't like it if you suggest that his enthusiasms are all about ostentation and conspicuous consumption. |
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He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power. |
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John Calvin's faith offers predestined salvation for a lucky few and requires adherents to work hard and shun ostentation. |
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With her personal choice of furniture and wall fabrics, Isabelle has taken great care to provide a rich decor but without ostentation. |
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To others, a gaudy and vulgar display of ostentation and insincere orotundity. |
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Renovated in 2000, this building is the very image of class, without ostentation, a refined professionalism. |
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He might see the big car you've been using as a sign of success, not ostentation. |
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Victorian Manchester would boast twice the riches of London with twice the ostentation. |
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The ostentation of the design, says Jeff Kingston of Temple University in Tokyo, is redolent of bubble-era Japan. |
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But beyond mere ostentation, the city-state has more substantial achievements to its credit. |
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The retinue passed through the place with such pomp and ostentation that it went down in local history as a notable event. |
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And what emboldened them to do it with such ostentation, if not the smug assurance that they could count on their Western partners' firm support? |
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The story is already very emotional, whence the risk of lapsing into ostentation and exaggerated sentimentality. |
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We produce furniture useful, functional, without ostentation, of defunct fashions, designed and made to live with us and to last. |
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In general terms, those who pursued this way of life opposed the pomp and ostentation of the official Church at that time. |
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You eschew ostentation when times are good, and you pay your fair share of the cost when times are bad. |
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One should also learn to avoid non-divine traits as ostentation, arrogance, self-conceit, anger, pride and excessive attachment to worldly possessions. |
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Spanish tiling, pastel shades and walls partly of exposed stone and partly of wood panels create a stylish ambience without a hint of ostentation. |
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About 35 serene green miles later, you're in Leiden, a university city girdled by canals and dominated by the gothic ostentation of its 15 th-century church. |
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But now, the first lines have been built, and they make a modest, decent contribution to the city, adding, without flash or ostentation, a literally new dimension. |
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At the beginning of the years 2000, space industry, after a period ostentation knew a fall of activities due to various factors mainly related to economic reasons. |
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We would say that we reject all forms of ostentation and hierarchy. |
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Most of the characteristic elements of the illustrated and bourgeois styles are present, with the constructions being practical with a certain degree of ostentation, but solid and well-balanced nevertheless. |
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The West's self-definition through the desire to obtain freedom manifests itself in the ostentation of weapons, but even more in the clash of consciences. |
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Without ostentation she worked quietly and wisely for the promotion of women to give them adequate learning and piety based on sound theological knowledge. |
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In keeping with the text of the poem, the music has the character of a funeral march, though since the poem is about a young girl, it is completely without ostentation. |
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Speak calmly and quietly, avoiding ostentation and bluster. |
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Likewise simplicity of expression, avoiding any ostentation, guides our way of responding to the possibilities and the demands of our contemporary educational settings. |
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Unfortunately, it will be the last period ostentation, the faience manufacture starts to have financial problems and must be resigned to a production almost strictly commercial. |
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Artistic teaching knows one period ostentation and the Haider young person there discovered there, remembers it, the painting suggested by the prints and the traces of antan? |
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To replace it, he sought to create a utopian America, cleansed of luxury and ostentation and the champion of freedom. |
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It is the association which provides the armchairs for handicapped people and the Gite Le Layon is entirely designed to adapt to the handicap, but without ostentation. |
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He was a showman who indulged in ostentation and flamboyance. |
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