Sentence examples for ostentatious behavior from inspiring English sources

I thought that was pretty ostentatious behavior.

"Since late 1998, the crown prince began responding to both internal and external demands by reining in the most ostentatious behavior of the princes, limiting their participation in business ventures," said Gwenn Okruhlik, a political scientist at the University of Arkansas who has written extensively about Saudi Arabia.

Ostentatious behaviour is frowned upon and interactions are often casual.

Just last month, Bravo's Real Housewives franchise celebrated a decade of captivating audiences with their ostentatious wealth, narcissistic behavior, ridiculous arguments, and more dance singles than a gay disco could play over a weekend.

They have been known to neatly skin a full-grown minke whale, bite off its dorsal fin, and eat only its tongue, a behavior that has been construed as either a tendency toward ostentatious epicurean wastefulness or a cross-species reënactment of an Aztec virgin sacrifice.

As it is, there is still much bitterness in the state Republican Party about Mr. Giuliani's behavior in the Senate campaign, a race he often treated with ostentatious indifference.

The specific educational exercise - in secondary education - postpones the ostentatious references and indicates Arts as an inner vision, leading to a real explanatory behavior, practiced especially in the theory of signs.

The economist Nick Feltovich and his colleagues have done work demonstrating that this kind of behavior — known as costly signalling — can also lead high-status people to avoid being ostentatious.

He became arrogant, ostentatious.

Too ostentatious, too bourgeois".

The ostentatious lifestyle?