Sentence examples for ostentatious performance from inspiring English sources

There's a reason Drake skipped the Grammys this year but appeared at the Billboard Awards, on Sunday night, accepting a record-breaking number of trophies and giving an ostentatious performance in the center of the Bellagio Hotel fountain.

The most elaborate and fantastic decorations, possibly inspired by the Chinese, emerged in the Renaissance, when unusual brass instruments were commissioned for ostentatious dramatic performances intended for royalty and their guests.

This innovative theatrical form, with its ostentatious costumes, was a performance art counterpart to the flamboyant Oribe trend in the decorative arts.

The poem remains a bravura performance, though not an ostentatious one; much like oysters, it is raw and briny and tender all at once—"and bowing not knowing to what". There were other wonders that made their way into The New Yorker, where he published more than two hundred poems across seven decades.

Dressed with rakish flair, they ape the performance in progress; one leans, with ostentatious nonchalance, on a long sword.

Comedic and stern in equal measure, the performance started with a stream of ostentatious declarations delivered by an army general via big screen (frontman Maynard Keenan in costume).

Here we go... Utterly obsessed fan that I was, I'd decided to sleep out for a full two nights under the marquee of the Fillmore East on 2nd Avenue and East 6th St. to buy tickets for The Who's Final Performance of "Tommy" at the absurdly ostentatious and downright silly venue, The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.

For the rest of you sane-types, here goes the Speedy-Dri version... Utterly obsessed Who fan that I was, I'd slept out for two nights under the marquee of the Fillmore East on 2nd Avenue and East 6th St. to buy tickets for The Who's Final Performance of "Tommy" at the absurdly ostentatious venue, The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.

This ostentatious technology turns holiday snaps into a kind of performance art.

The conductor, Martyn Brabbins, draws a lively performance from the BBC Scottish players here and in the ostentatious "Fantasia on a Theme of Handel".

In 1983, when the early-music world's notions of stylistic propriety held sway, a performance like Mr. Ma's new one would have been considered an ostentatious throwback.