Sentence examples for ostentatious language from inspiring English sources
Ostentatious language is always a danger when using narrators from the distant past, but Hollingshead's descriptions stand tastefully back from such overexuberance: a land crab becomes "a rat in armor," a keeper at the madhouse is an albino with "a cherry-pit-and-porridge complexion"; the sun is "a solar disk the color of soot-streaked copper".
According to Scott Thompson Smith, the charters of "Æthelstan A": "are generally characterised by a rich pleonastic style with aggressively literary proems and anathemas, ostentatious language and imagery throughout, decorative rhetorical figures, elaborate dating clauses and extensive witness lists".
According to Scott Thompson Smith "Æthelstan A"'s diplomas "are generally characterised by a rich pleonastic style with aggressively literary proems and anathemas, ostentatious language and imagery throughout, decorative rhetorical figures, elaborate dating clauses, and extensive witness lists.
(A note about the word "beautiful": Munro isn't interested in standard literary aesthetics. She doesn't traffic in the artful, the lyrical or the euphonious. When she savages your heart, it's with language almost ostentatious in its refusal to be pretty).
Praying doesn't need to involve overly formal language or ostentatious diction.
Among Huygens' writings, at one extreme stands Costelyck mal (1622; "Exquisitely Foolish"), a satire of the ostentatious finery of the townswomen; and, at the other extreme, Scheepspraet (1625; "Ship's Talk"), in the language of the lower deck, and Trijntje Cornelis (1653), an earthy farce.
He became arrogant, ostentatious.
Too ostentatious, too bourgeois".
The ostentatious lifestyle?
Buscemi is never ostentatious.
