Sentence examples for ostentatious style from inspiring English sources

The scale and ostentatious style of the monument will make it hard to miss.

An ostentatious style is often considered a token of difficulty, and Gass certainly has a reputation as a difficult writer in the high-modernist mode.

"Ghetto fabulous" is defined here as "pertaining to or favoring an ostentatious style of dress associated with the hip-hop subculture," though its use now is broader and sometimes more ambiguous.

Tim Dumas, a Greenwich-born- and-bred author, sees conflict between the old-money community -- the families who have lived in Greenwich for generations (some since the town was founded, in 1624) with names like Finch, Mead and Auchincloss -- the young wealthy families with their newer, ostentatious style.

An ostentatious style paired with exquisite detail runs through a series of variegated, graphic renderings.

His lavish, ostentatious style, offended the religious establishment who expected the "Imam of Muslims," to pursue a pious, proselytizing lifestyle.

A second lecture, "From the Neck Up: Jewelry, Hairstyles and Makeup in the Late 18th Century," was given by Stephane Houy-Towner, a research associate at the Costume Institute, who contrasted early American style, with its "minimal, streamlined aesthetic," from the more ostentatious styles promoted in France.

She is among those turning their backs on ostentatious styling, and especially on the owlishly super-size frames popularized a few years back by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, in favor of scaled-down rectangles in bi-colored plastic, imitation tortoise shell, wood, titanium or even gold.

Small but perfectly formed timepieces are taking over from bulky, ostentatious styles, finds Ivan Carvalho, as he views the micro marvels and masterpieces on show at Basel's sleek new exhibition centre.

It will be celebrated in ostentatious style--joyously, unanimously, and oblivious to the panoply of events, even in just this past week in China, Greece, Ukraine, financial markets, Hew Hampshire, and Downing Street, which underscore how brazen and subversive her reelection is for an institution whose founding mandate is warning and prevention of global economic catastrophe.

A cause for more sustained resentment has been her ostentatious personal style in what is still a desperately poor country.