By contrast, Hockey seems determined to flaunt his status as the representative of the big end of town.
So fuerdai and guanerdai who flaunt their status are pretty much guaranteed to get a big reaction.
Such characters cannot be taken naïvely: they flaunt their status as literary inventions, outgrowths of human wishes and writerly words.
He is, after all, a baron who prefers not to flaunt his status in his working life, but who enjoys the trappings of fortune that have come with a successful business career.
Even with the comfort inherent in that dynamic, as boys become men in the game there are moments when they need to show, and even flaunt, their status as mature athletes.
That's why you moored your yacht off Rhodes and invited Peter Mandelson and George Osborne over to stay, thus proving that not only were you a Russian billionaire but you knew how to flaunt that status to best effect.
And where a rapper would flaunt his status symbols, Joe uses a backhanded approach: he thanks God for his good fortune (while enumerating it) and he lets the latest object of his affection know how generous he'll be to her.
They feel that they must rise to the challenge of friends and colleagues who flaunt their status as frequently flying culturati in statements like, "The Korean ceramics we saw in Osaka are mud pies next to those in private collections in Seoul".
Every night, the clubs are filled with patrons who eschew the cities' better restaurants and hipper bars to flaunt their status as "members".
Not a mass-market success, and possibly even a challenge with the upper crust, who are happy enough to flaunt their status through a fabulous case for their iPhones and Androids.
The problem, Nguyen complained, was not Vietnam's poor and uneducated, but its wealthy elite - the senior government officials and the wealthy businessmen who ordered pangolin to flaunt their status or to celebrate a deal.
