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Sentence Examples The Atlantic and Pacific coasts are being ostentatiously patrolled by large and reassuring Navy vessels. Octavian went ahead with his triumph, when the procession through Rome bore an image of Cleopatra with a snake ostentatiously clamped to her arm. He hissed when Galloway spoke, of course, cheered ostentatiously when King spoke, and generally made himself ridiculous. Many nobles now ostentatiously turned their backs on public life, as beneath their dignity. Rooms are handsomely but not ostentatiously furnished, and all have king-size beds, fireplaces, and decks that overlook the lake. They are ostentatiously nonchalant, disinclined to become too involved, at least to begin with. He doesn't attempt the stammer, the dandyish manner, the cigarette ostentatiously clamped between the middle fingers. He leaned over towards her, and Lizzy started coughing ostentatiously when the cigar smoke floated in her direction. She pounces on an empty seat and gestures ostentatiously to me that the one opposite is free. Brides still wear ostentatiously royal gowns that cannot be used again for any other function. For example, muffs of fox were carried ostentatiously by followers of Charles James Fox. Fascism ostentatiously worshipped male virility and was explicitly anti-feminist. If we ostentatiously display our Rolex watch, should we be held responsible when it is ripped from our wrist? He argues that a ruler who wishes to avoid a reputation for parsimony will find that he needs to spend lavishly and ostentatiously. But in no case were these flouted too indelicately or ostentatiously. The playwrights who wrote for the public stage depicted characters who demonstrated a fetishistic preoccupation with clothes and who dressed ostentatiously. It is he, not the Prime Minister, who must court attention ostentatiously. Then he clears his throat ostentatiously and launches into his lecture on the Achaemenian dynasty, rulers of the Persian empire five centuries before Christ. One cannot help but admire these women in their courage to be gender rebels, ostentatiously flouting centuries of repressive, patriarchal social conditioning. Mallon yawned ostentatiously, then under cover of shifting and stretching he patted himself down and confirmed that his billfold was gone. Show More Sentences Acting and ostentatiously showing it, the roguish actors surprise us with humour and insolence again and again. It has been carefully but not ostentatiously decorated, giving pride of place to the past heritage. The ex-second of the organization is already ostentatiously isolated, and the chairman of the party entered power with younger cadres from the movement. Unlike many stars, Mr Rajkumar has not trifled with the affections of his public by living ostentatiously or entering politics. In 1967 Johan Allary and I bravely undertook to set up a small Africanist library at Canisius, quite ostentatiously close to the Rector's room. An ostentatiously decorated residence was proof of power and therefore of respectability. They allow themselves to be seen, by ostentatiously using multimedia devices in public spaces like the street, the train or the coffee-shop. The consul was a keen golfer, so Cunningham ostentatiously visited the clubhouse with his clubs and an overnight bag. I even quite like the ostentatiously distressed trestles and folding chairs they use outside, and the formulaic battered club chairs in the window. The actor Steve McQueen was notorious for stealing scenes in which he had no dialogue by ostentatiously fiddling with the brim of his Stetson or adjusting his neckerchief. Another figure who looks unflustered is Boris Berezovsky, perhaps Russia's biggest tycoon and best-known manipulator, who has been ostentatiously close to Mr Chernomyrdin this week. More intriguing is the Mag Surf, developed by people in white coats with pockets ostentatiously festooned with pens, which is based on excitingly Back to the Future-type things such as superconductors, and flux tubes. The Cubans appear to have brokered a deal under which Mr Maduro and Mr Cabello potential rivals ostentatiously declared their brotherly love and insisted that there was no need for a physical inauguration this week. The woman from the preachy daily and the man from the Post's broadsheet stablemate, who everyone knew were having an affair, were chatting to each other at an ostentatiously safe distance. Indeed, the regime speaks of development by enumerating villas built by the barons of the regime, by displaying ostentatiously the wealth of the few. I find it intolerable to think that funding for television and cinema productions must be scraped together in the South while fortunes are ostentatiously spent on such productions in the North. Chávez has bitingly castigated the Bush administration and ostentatiously embraced Washington's chief nemesis in the Western Hemisphere, Cuban leader Fidel Castro. It was always a pleasure at sub-faculty meetings to watch him ostentatiously working his way through the week's crop of offprints while the routine business droned on. Just as the very installation ostentatiously makes explicit, the mission Icarus 13 did not take place historically, and the workers in the photographs have never fine-tuned the spaceship's engines. Nonconformists who wanted office ostentatiously took the Anglican sacrament once a year in order to avoid the restrictions. Show More Sentences For two years, and very ostentatiously, Sarkozy has bitten his tongue. A flout is when someone deliberately and ostentatiously contravenes a maxim. Dealing with international criticism, particularly from the US, that Britain was guilty of degrading treatment of internees, Mason ostentatiously insisted on the security forces using legitimate questioning methods. Wilfrid lived ostentatiously, and travelled with a large retinue. Evidently he had no problem using repeatedly, even ostentatiously, an expression that a plurality of the Court had fingered as bigotedly anti-Catholic. In juggling the artfully deconstructed volumes, architects and engineers are heavyhanded with the structure, which is ostentatiously manifested throughout the building. Examples from Classical Literature No more ostentatiously unimpressive and unmenacing demonstration could have been devised. Men openly sharpened their knives, and the afterguard ostentatiously showed their pistols. The Dutch brought the phenix into the roadstead, and began ostentatiously to fit her as a man-of-war. It is something that its present state is at least not ostentatiously displayed. A carabinero, with his back ostentatiously turned to the newcomers, leaned on his rifle, whistling mournfully. You want to do this so as to ostentatiously show that you mean to keep friends with me. They were ostentatiously solemnizing the obsequies of the departed monarch. A hard, broad, high-road runs ostentatiously some miles out of Urfa on the side which we were approaching. We took revolvers, holding them ostentatiously in our pockets. Then he ostentatiously returned the gun he was holding to its holster. She was not merely regardless of it, but ostentatiously disdainful. The girl was now shunned, ostentatiously, carefully shunned. Samson glared at the lady who ostentatiously shook her head. Nevertheless, even while she paraded these ideas somewhat ostentatiously through her mind, it is altogether surprising what a calmness had come over her. He felt that his blighted affections were quite dead now, and though he should never cease to be a faithful mourner, there was no occasion to wear his weeds ostentatiously. To this gentleman, Stubb was now politely introduced by the Guernsey-man, who at once ostentatiously put on the aspect of interpreting between them. Find more words! 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