Sentence examples for ostentatious manner from inspiring English sources

But the player's ostentatious manner off the pitch made him an easy scapegoat.

He pioneered a natural, fluid style of acting, as opposed to the grand, ostentatious manner then popular.

Lucky's duties entail solving homicides executed in the ostentatious manner consistent with the Babylon's image as "Las Vegas's most over-the-top Strip casino-resort".

Last week Ukip leader Nigel Farage said that mothers should not breastfeed their babies in an "ostentatious" manner, advising mothers to "sit in a corner" instead of drawing attention to themselves.

Hal finds a younger lover, Andy (the handsome Goran Visnjic), through an encounter column, and throws himself into the gay community and its politics, though not in a particularly ostentatious manner.

You will become wealthy beyond your wildest dreams, but you must not be seen using this money in a flashy or ostentatious manner.

She was always elegant in an understated, non-ostentatious way.

Even intellectual fashion can be ostentatious.

Taking aim at the idle rich, Camilleri skewers their rude manners, their affected airs and their ostentatious amusements — like the dinner after a charity race at which Montalbano is lured into a barn and hilariously seduced by an aristocratic horse owner.

His manner, languorous and throwaway, and his accent, ostentatious old upper-class, both suggested a gent chippily entertained by the resentful rest of us.

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.