Sentence examples for ostentatious phrasing from inspiring English sources

Beethoven's more ostentatious phrasing, as in the 6th and 13th variations, sometimes sounded jerky and eccentric.

But this is typical of a production that takes a play once dubbed "the last drawing-room comedy", and discovers, beneath its ostentatious phrase-making, an unexpected humanity.

Ostentatious parsimony was the phrase used by Kate Macintosh, the woman responsible for some of the most ambitious local authority housing of the 1960s and 70s, to describe the spending environment for the social architect.

The Celtic knots of the alliterative phrases he ties throughout the translation tease us readers with the suspicion that ostentatious word play doesn't displease him at all.

He became arrogant, ostentatious.

Too ostentatious, too bourgeois".

The ostentatious lifestyle?

Buscemi is never ostentatious.

I'm not ostentatious.

Is that ostentatious?

They're not ostentatious".