The outrageous clothes and ostentatious dance moves took the mind off of the gang violence and unemployment.
And it only invited more ridicule that, for the Portuguese national team, Ronaldo has often been flamboyant but hollow, like one of his ostentatious step-over moves.
"Sales of Dom Pérignon didn't suffer, but ostentatious packaging didn't move.
Cities like Dubai are adjusting expectations of both themselves and the world at larger and the chalky limelight has moved from ostentatious growth to risk management.
First, subversive novelty tunes that spoof the ridiculous parts of the holiday season: Monty Python's Christmas in Heaven, or Nick Lowe's Christmas at the Airport, or Big Freedia's over-the-top new Christmas jam Make It Jingle, a paean to ostentatious gifts and lewd dance moves.
Wednesday's verdict provided an exclamation point for a city that has largely moved beyond the ostentatious reign of Mr. James, who traveled the city's crime-plagued streets in a Rolls-Royce and owned a beach house and a 54-foot yacht.
Recently there has been a move away from ostentatious sleeplessness.
The company, which is only six years old, has already seemed to inundate the minds of backpack buyers everywhere and this move away from ostentatious branding and high-end materials is interesting and telling.
Initially, the infirm Queen who cannot dance along with everyone else is entertained, but as the sequence continues and she watches her lover engaging physically with this fit, striking young man, their moves becoming sillier and more ostentatious.
Mr. Costner's move to the sidelines is as ostentatious as his Boston Brahmin accent -- he seems to be channeling Vaughn Meader.
