For the jewelry lover: While bling is a bit ostentatious in current times, if you can afford a decent piece of jewelry for someone special, keep it simple.
Others look strangely childlike and ostentatious at the same time, as if Christopher Robin became a hedge-fund analyst.
Luhrmann's Gatsby coincides with an era of ostentatious wealth and hard times in America, meaning it could have great potential to reflect Fitzgerald's themes.
Thanks to her genius for turning her experiences into songs, and her insistence on being her ostentatious self at all times, Kapadia can't uncover a side of her which hasn't been on view for years in her interviews and on her albums.
He had been kind of ostentatious about it, but over time it had seemed like the right thing to do, and the working rabble, as Douglas had referred to them, seemed to appreciate it.
But given the showbiz gimcrackery of Flavor's recent reality TV existence – disciplined for sucking on a cow's udder in Channel 5's The Farm; striking up a relationship with Brigitte Nielsen on VH1's The Surreal Life – it seems appropriate that the rapper could be calling time on the ostentatious novelty that Auto-Tune has become.
"Now is not the time to be ostentatious," said Sean Hennessey, the director of hospitality consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Instead, the developers say, they hope that the delayed opening of the hotel will work to its advantage -- that it will be seen as the first project to emerge from the ashes of Lower Manhattan, a kind of beacon for the neighborhood's rebirth.
Actually, this is not the first time Parker's ostentatious wealth has been the subject of unflattering media coverage, which may be why he has had enough.
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They are timely, too, on the fashion front: a few fresh pot marigolds are more in tune with the times than an ostentatious display of hot-house divas with an enormous carbon footprint.
