The Austrian writer-director sets up scenes in a seemingly unassuming manner, drawing our attention to the smallest ostentatious detail: where one character stands in relation to another, or how two of them might dance during one of their many musical fetes.
He is formally ostentatious, often inventing fabulist characters with equally fabulist voices and generally remaining allergic to adjective-free naturalism.
Malamud was never so ostentatious - and neither were his characters.
Van Den Berg's previous collection of stories, The Isle of Youth, won praise for the way in which characters' emotional lives overshadowed its ostentatious conceits (honeymooners crash-landed in Patagonia; twin sisters turned gum-shoe detectives).
Mostly, I was drawn to my grandfather's beautiful penmanship, full of elegant, precise ovals — a hand accustomed to the tiny curvatures of Chinese characters luxuriating in cursive's ostentatious loops and smeared dots.
Fans have speculated furiously over the character of Kylo Ren, played by Adam Driver, whose ostentatious robes and mask appear to have a Vader-like quality.
The nature of the film, and the medical condition it describes, deny him the ostentatious acting challenges that usually come with playing a physically disabled character, but that only makes his clinched, internalised performance all the more remarkable.
"Much as we'd have liked to dramatise the Devil like Tim Curry in Legend, we were working with a budget where a character having a hat and gloves is considered wasteful and ostentatious".
His character, David Ghantt — a real-life felon who took part in an ostentatious crime in the late 1990s — is rationalizing his own miscreant deeds for the audience of "Masterminds," a would-be memorable piece of popular culture that applies the TV-sketch-show-surreal-farce approach to a based-on-true-events caper picture.
Her flights of fancy are never ostentatious or arbitrary; instead they grow naturally out of the emotional and psychological states of her characters.
