Sentence examples for ostentation from inspiring English sources

He might see the big car you've been using as a sign of success, not ostentation.

Victorian Manchester would boast twice the riches of London with twice the ostentation.

Impressed with much else, he had this to say about religion in Egypt: "It is considered the highest honour among the Muslims to be religious; but the desire to appear so leads many into hypocrisy and pharisaical ostentation".The same observation might be made today.

The ostentation of the design, says Jeff Kingston of Temple University in Tokyo, is redolent of bubble-era Japan.

Maybe they find it vulgar (rather as the British find the ostentation of America's rich).

But beyond mere ostentation, the city-state has more substantial achievements to its credit.

He had, he admitted, "gasped at the detail which Mantel knew and had woven into her story, without any feeling of ostentation"; and he is impatient for the sequel.

Now Klimt has become the flavour of this decade, not least because his work reflects another period of great prosperity in which ostentation and wealth came back in fashion.

He has become synonymous with the IPL's culture of ostentation and celebrity, jetting from game to game and hobnobbing with the film stars and tycoons he persuaded to buy IPL teams.

"It wasn't just that they were self-conscious about the ostentation.

It prefers anonymity to the ostentation of others (Mr Beltrán was undone by inviting a famous accordionist to play at a Christmas party).