Sentence examples for but without ostentation from inspiring English sources

Dress well but without ostentation.

Aelfric wrote with lucidity and astonishing beauty, using the rhetorical devices of Latin literature frequently but without ostentation; his later alliterative prose, which loosely imitates the rhythms of Old English poetry, influenced writers long after the Norman Conquest.

He understood he was viewed as a hero by his people, but he and his wife lived without ostentation.

Instead, hung without ostentation, the pictures looked grander by contrast with their setting.

Nonetheless, this experimentation underlined the fact that barbera deserves to be taken seriously, though without ostentation.

But the two "adored each other," a friend of theirs later wrote, and shared a taste for "great comfort without ostentation, good food and... vintage Bordeaux".

A regular on best-dressed lists, the countess was inducted into the Fashion Hall of Fame for "faultless taste in dress without ostentation or extravagance".

but an industrialist by trade: he'd inherited a manufacturing firm from his father, and had done well enough with it to pursue a life of pleasure and ease, though without ostentation, in keeping with the ethos of Berlin.

The cost of ownership (of these trappings of wealth) includes the cost of teams of lawyers, each dealing with the laws of the various countries in which property is held.... Warren Buffett again looks like a genius for living without ostentation.

He avoided too … the proper praise due his glorious actions, his bravery and dash, without ostentation or pride, his coolness and able management; and above all, the care of his men endeared him to all".

So we learn of Mary McWilliam, who died in 1749: "In her did conspicuously shine all the Devine & Amiable Virtues of the Human soul Piety without Ostentation Humility without Affectation unbounded Charity filial Duty Conjugal Love & Affection Maternal Tenderness and Indulgence but with Oeconomy beloved in living and in death lamented".