AS OSTENTATIOUS gestures go, splashing out $1.5m (including taxes) to have a custom-made Rolls-Royce Phantom air-mailed to you half-way around the world takes some beating.
Of all the places we visited, it was both the most American in execution, European in design, and un-Vegas feeling, swapping ostentatious gestures for simple, clean design, and allowing in the sun and real daylight (enough to recommend it alone in my view).
And recycling, he adds, is "almost certainly a waste of time and energy", while having a "green lifestyle" amounts to little more than "ostentatious grand gestures".
Because we can't". And recycling, he adds, is "almost certainly a waste of time and energy", while having a "green lifestyle" amounts to little more than "ostentatious grand gestures".
But his polite gesture is as ostentatious as his accent, and despite his politesse, he's almost always a step ahead of everyone else.
The story's surfeit allows Eifman to indulge in ostentatious and extravagant momentum and gestures, and he's very good at that.
The gesture is both humble and ostentatious at the same time.
In response, Romney stuck out his hand and offered to bet Perry $10,000 that he was wrong -- a gesture that is unlikely to play well amongst Iowans, who tend to recoil from ostentatious displays of wealth.
In some ways, E.L.P. was the quintessential prog band, dominated by Emerson's ostentatious technique — he played as fast as he could, and sometimes, it seemed, faster — and given to grand, goofy gestures, like "Tarkus," a twenty-minute suite that recounted the saga of a giant, weaponized armadillo.
He became arrogant, ostentatious.
